Re: [BackupPC-users] Looking for some comments on sizing.

2017-02-08 Thread Scott Walker
Infra is not really a concern for me, it's more will the software handle it. Network connectivity and IOPs aren't a huge concern (machines will be speced to be "beasts" as well as network. de-dupe for me is not a massive want. 99.9% of the files we will be backing up are 100% unique. I'd rather s

Re: [BackupPC-users] Looking for some comments on sizing.

2017-02-08 Thread Scott Walker
Yeah I'm not super concerned personally with the UI but the UI is for pointy haired types to be able to do things. (yeah I know). On 8 February 2017 at 21:39, Kenneth Porter wrote: > Deduplication and rsync are the big reasons I went with BackupPC. UI is way > down the list for me. I can learn

Re: [BackupPC-users] Looking for some comments on sizing.

2017-02-08 Thread Scott Walker
Individual files range from k text files, to100GB+ in size. Everything from images to movies files, to text, to VM images. (We are a VFX studio). And mainly unique files. so deduplication I'm not honestly concerned about. I just like BackupPC UI and it's easy of use and I'm wondering if this is a

[BackupPC-users] Looking for some comments on sizing.

2017-02-08 Thread Scott Walker
Has anyone used BackupPC in an enterprise environment? I'm talking PBs of data, 100's of servers, hybrid environment. Mac, Solaris, BSD, Linux, Windows. Did it work well? Any gotcha's? When you see PB of data does it make your gut feeling go uhh yeah no. I'm just fact finding and investigating.