Re: [Bacula-users] Hardware Specs & Sizing for Bacula?

2016-02-21 Thread Alan Brown
on the right track if we do go > with Bacula, sounds like there are some tweaks to the hardware we have > but it doesn't sound like we'd need to literally start over, my > biggest concerns are around us having the time to absorb it all. > > Thanks again - appreciate the ti

Re: [Bacula-users] Hardware Specs & Sizing for Bacula?

2016-02-20 Thread paul.hutchings
x27;d need to literally start over, my biggest concerns are around us having the time to absorb it all. Thanks again - appreciate the time you took there. Original Message Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Hardware Specs & Sizing for Bacula? Local Time: February 19, 2016 10:02 pm

Re: [Bacula-users] Hardware Specs & Sizing for Bacula?

2016-02-19 Thread Alan Brown
f the backup server itself. If someone tells you they need a 12TB filesystem, its quite likely they don't and they haven't thought through what happens if it needs fscking (which is another good reason for keeping backed-up filesets under 1TB. Beyond that fscks at startup can eat a lot

Re: [Bacula-users] Hardware Specs & Sizing for Bacula?

2016-02-19 Thread paul.hutchings
Wow! Point well made :) Original Message Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Hardware Specs & Sizing for Bacula? Local Time: February 19, 2016 7:35 pm UTC Time: February 19, 2016 7:35 PM From: g...@gregandeva.net To: paul.hutchi...@protonmail.com On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 11:1

Re: [Bacula-users] Hardware Specs & Sizing for Bacula?

2016-02-19 Thread paul.hutchings
is is dumb/obvious to most of you :) ---- Original Message ---- Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Hardware Specs & Sizing for Bacula? Local Time: February 19, 2016 6:58 pm UTC Time: February 19, 2016 6:58 PM From: a...@mssl.ucl.ac.uk To: paul.hutchi...@protonmail.com,bacula-users@lists.sourcefor

Re: [Bacula-users] Hardware Specs & Sizing for Bacula?

2016-02-19 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
On 02/19/2016 12:12 PM, paul.hutchings wrote: > For example if I were to suggest box with dual 8 core E5 CPUs, hardware PERC RAID card with 1GB cache, 48TB of 7.2k SATA in RAID6 and 32GB (or more) of RAM running as a SD would people be thinking "hmmm may need more horsepower" or would people be th

Re: [Bacula-users] Hardware Specs & Sizing for Bacula?

2016-02-19 Thread Alan Brown
On 19/02/16 18:12, paul.hutchings wrote: We're new to Bacula and are still considering if it's viable for us. Our test environment is quite small (it is a test environment) and when I read the docs I'm not sure how recent they are when they relate to hardware specs. For example if I were to su

[Bacula-users] Hardware Specs & Sizing for Bacula?

2016-02-19 Thread paul.hutchings
We're new to Bacula and are still considering if it's viable for us. Our test environment is quite small (it is a test environment) and when I read the docs I'm not sure how recent they are when they relate to hardware specs. For example if I were to suggest box with dual 8 core E5 CPUs, hardwar