Re: [Bacula-users] Deploying bacula daemons on the network!

2010-02-15 Thread John Drescher
> I want to deploy bacula on small network environment I built; > > I have 5 clients on windows XP, Two servers on ubuntu 9.10 and one server on > windows server 2003 > This is fine. I have a mix of around 50 bacula clients with linux servers and windows desktops. I have 30TB on tape with my bacula

[Bacula-users] Deploying bacula daemons on the network!

2010-02-15 Thread eugene ngontang
Hi! I want to deploy bacula on small network environment I built; I have 5 clients on windows XP, Two servers on ubuntu 9.10 and one server on windows server 2003 By the moment I would like to do my backups on hard drives. Then I would like to set one of the ubuntu machine as the director (the

Re: [Bacula-users] Deploying Bacula

2010-02-03 Thread Henrik Johansen
On 02/ 3/10 04:23 PM, FredNF wrote: > Le Wed, 03 Feb 2010 13:18:37 +0100, > Henrik Johansen a écrit : > >> The bulk of Bacula's DB operations are purely disk IOPS bound so I >> would argue that IOPS is way more important than RAM. >> >>> With the others advices I had, I'm planning to have a dual X

Re: [Bacula-users] Deploying Bacula

2010-02-03 Thread mehma sarja
Fred, On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 7:23 AM, FredNF wrote: > Le Wed, 03 Feb 2010 13:18:37 +0100, > Henrik Johansen a écrit : > > > The bulk of Bacula's DB operations are purely disk IOPS bound so I > > would argue that IOPS is way more important than RAM. > > > > > With the others advices I had, I'm p

Re: [Bacula-users] Deploying Bacula

2010-02-03 Thread mehma sarja
> > We backup ~35TB each week in a 3 week rotation so we just have to scale > out in order to meet our demands and we are planning to go multi-DIR, > multi-SD with a couple of very hefty MySQL servers to service them. > > Holy cow! That's a lot of data. I'm exploring using ZFS's de-dup function. P

Re: [Bacula-users] Deploying Bacula

2010-02-03 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 02/03/10 10:23, FredNF wrote: > Right, we never see the problem on this side. The filestem used for the > director can be: > > - if FreeBSD FFS or ZFS (ZFS is nice supported with FreeBSD 8) > - if Gentoo or Linux Distro, ext4 > > In the same way, what FS do you, on the list, prefer

Re: [Bacula-users] Deploying Bacula

2010-02-03 Thread FredNF
Le Wed, 03 Feb 2010 13:18:37 +0100, Henrik Johansen a écrit : > The bulk of Bacula's DB operations are purely disk IOPS bound so I > would argue that IOPS is way more important than RAM. > > > With the others advices I had, I'm planning to have a dual Xeon > > Nehalem, with 8 ou 12 GB of RAM, an

Re: [Bacula-users] Deploying Bacula

2010-02-03 Thread FredNF
Le Wed, 03 Feb 2010 11:15:49 -0300, Heitor Medrado de Faria a écrit : > I really dont see the point of splitting the pools per "kind of > server", since you do that by creating different FileSets. This is linked to our setups. Take a shared web server, the install is like this: System (/,

Re: [Bacula-users] Deploying Bacula

2010-02-03 Thread Heitor Medrado de Faria
Henrik Johansen wrote: > On 02/ 3/10 12:06 PM, FredNF wrote: > >> Le Mon, 01 Feb 2010 19:32:58 -0500, >> Dan Langille a écrit : >> >> So, my questions are: - How do I define my pools ? >>> Define them along the lines of the parameters for Pool. For >>> starter

Re: [Bacula-users] Deploying Bacula

2010-02-03 Thread Henrik Johansen
On 02/ 3/10 12:06 PM, FredNF wrote: > Le Mon, 01 Feb 2010 19:32:58 -0500, > Dan Langille a écrit : > >>> So, my questions are: >>> - How do I define my pools ? >> >> Define them along the lines of the parameters for Pool. For >> starters, different retention times require different Pools. >

Re: [Bacula-users] Deploying Bacula

2010-02-03 Thread Heitor Medrado de Faria
FredNF wrote: > The bacula director, and, the database are planned to be a Dual nehalem > with SAS drives, according to your thinks and the orthers reponse I had. > > But, I'm more dubitative against the pools. You really think that only > three spools based on weekly, daily and monthly will do the

Re: [Bacula-users] Deploying Bacula

2010-02-03 Thread FredNF
Le Mon, 1 Feb 2010 10:42:35 -0800, mehma sarja a écrit : > A couple of more questions to ask yourself are: > a. How fast do I want to restore the data? If you are forced to > restore 700 GB - that MIGHT take you 24 hours - depending on your > hardware. Is that acceptable? The best option is: as

Re: [Bacula-users] Deploying Bacula

2010-02-03 Thread FredNF
Hi Heitor. First, thanks for your advices. And sorry for beeing late, I cannot approch my station yesterday :) The bacula director, and, the database are planned to be a Dual nehalem with SAS drives, according to your thinks and the orthers reponse I had. But, I'm more dubitative against the poo

Re: [Bacula-users] Deploying Bacula

2010-02-03 Thread FredNF
Le Mon, 01 Feb 2010 19:32:58 -0500, Dan Langille a écrit : > > So, my questions are: > > - How do I define my pools ? > > Define them along the lines of the parameters for Pool. For > starters, different retention times require different Pools. Then, the pools can be for each kind of serve

Re: [Bacula-users] Deploying Bacula

2010-02-01 Thread Dan Langille
Fred wrote: > Hello dear Bacula (happy) users. > > After some testings, I plan to deploy Bacula on my infrastructure. I'm > currently working for a web hosting enterprise so we have some... weird > configurations, mixing OS flavours and OS versions. > > A little presentation of the infrastructure

[Bacula-users] Deploying Bacula

2010-02-01 Thread Fred
Hello dear Bacula (happy) users. After some testings, I plan to deploy Bacula on my infrastructure. I'm currently working for a web hosting enterprise so we have some... weird configurations, mixing OS flavours and OS versions. A little presentation of the infrastructure: - Server dedicated