Re: [BackupPC-users] New Hardware [war Troubleshooting a slow backup]

2007-10-03 Thread Jack Coats
>From when I used to be pre-sales and tech support for a VAR that sold different backup solutions: Run your numbers before you decide on hardware. It is all about bandwidth. There is bandwidth you need to consider everywhere. 1. client read speed during the backup session (what else is going on

Re: [BackupPC-users] New Hardware [war Troubleshooting a slow backup]

2007-10-02 Thread David Rees
On 10/2/07, Tony Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My first decision point is potentially the easiest. I thought rather > than buying one huge backup server and trying to backup all 32 hosts, it > might be smarter to buy 2 (or more) smaller machines and splitting up > the load. I would think th

Re: [BackupPC-users] New Hardware [war Troubleshooting a slow backup]

2007-10-02 Thread Renke Brausse
Hi Tony, Am Dienstag, den 02.10.2007, 14:36 -0400 schrieb Tony Nelson: > Any input would be greatly appreciated. If I failed to consider any > other topic, please feel free to let me know about those as well. I use backuppc for a full backup of 12 servers (most Linux) plus some other machines

Re: [BackupPC-users] New Hardware [war Troubleshooting a slow backup]

2007-10-02 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 10/02 02:36 , Tony Nelson wrote: > My first decision point is potentially the easiest. I thought rather > than buying one huge backup server and trying to backup all 32 hosts, it > might be smarter to buy 2 (or more) smaller machines and splitting up > the load. I'd go along with that ide

[BackupPC-users] New Hardware [war Troubleshooting a slow backup]

2007-10-02 Thread Tony Nelson
My boss has finally decided that I've thrown enough time at this problem, and offered to buy new hardware. I'm a bit concerned that if I spec out a system I'll end up with a very expensive machine that suffers from the same problems that I currently have, so I'm going to ask for everyones help