Hello there.
I've been using Bareos for backups for quite some time at home. At the
moment I have a Gigabyte Brix box with 4G RAM and external USB-connected
swappable disks set up with vchanger so I have off-line backups.
Everything runs great.
But.
The Brix started failing lately and I'm looking for a replacement. To be
absolutely honest - the price is the key factor here. I thought about
RaspberryPi as the backup server even those few years ago when I set up
the original environment but at that point there was that was not enough
for me performance-wise. If I remember correctly, it was that the RasPi
didn't have USB3 back then.
Anyway.
Nowadays the RasPi 4B seems to have GigEthernet, 5G WiFi and USB3. So in
theory should work sufficiently quickly. But that's all "on paper".
Question is if it's able to reach proper performance in reality (also,
the RasPi has only 2G of RAM... Would it suffice for bareos and db
server?). After all it's a different architecture and it's not meant for
such workload. Also - should I worry about sdcard wear while running the
database?
And the hardest question - is there a decently recent version of bareos
available for Raspberry Pi at all? I see 16.2 in raspbian archives -
that's quite old.
Still, if I found a proper version - could I simply migrate server
(director and storage) settings (I suppose so) and database dump (I
think dump & restore would be needed, I wouldn't count on moving binary
postgres database files)?
Of course the easiest solution for me would be to buy a new Brix-like PC
but let's be honest, they cost at least twice as much as RasPi and the
power footprint of RasPi is very tempting compared to those netboxes or
however you call them.
Uff, that's pretty much all :-)
Thanks for staying with me up to this point
Best Regards,
MK
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