Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc for large scale env

2009-08-27 Thread Jim Leonard
Les Mikesell wrote: > Usually the issue that limits performance with backuppc is disk seek > time as it manages hardlinks and directories which have to be on a > single file system. About the only thing you can do to improve that is > to use a raid scheme that includes a lot of drives and add R

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc for large scale env

2009-08-27 Thread Chris Robertson
Brent Clark wrote: > Hiya > > I got quite a few servers around the world that I need to backup. > > The question I would like to ask is, how does backuppc scale to the other > backup solutions, in large environments. Also for those running backuppc for > large scale environment, would you be so k

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc for large scale env

2009-08-27 Thread Les Mikesell
Brent Clark wrote: > Michael Stowe wrote: >> It depends on what you mean by "large scale" and what your particular >> plans are. Having a BackupPC server in each of a dozen countries to back >> up offices of 10-50 people each probably wouldn't require anything >> special, while trying to back up a

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc for large scale env

2009-08-27 Thread Brent Clark
Michael Stowe wrote: > It depends on what you mean by "large scale" and what your particular > plans are. Having a BackupPC server in each of a dozen countries to back > up offices of 10-50 people each probably wouldn't require anything > special, while trying to back up a PC in Columbia from Germ

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc for large scale env

2009-08-27 Thread Michael Stowe
It depends on what you mean by "large scale" and what your particular plans are. Having a BackupPC server in each of a dozen countries to back up offices of 10-50 people each probably wouldn't require anything special, while trying to back up a PC in Columbia from Germany may require a special de

[BackupPC-users] backuppc for large scale env

2009-08-27 Thread Brent Clark
Hiya I got quite a few servers around the world that I need to backup. The question I would like to ask is, how does backuppc scale to the other backup solutions, in large environments. Also for those running backuppc for large scale environment, would you be so kind as to share your experience