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

2017-02-09 Thread Johan Ehnberg
Hi Scott, I've been looking into scaling BackupPC to some extent. Object storage is not yet feasible in v4, due to some database-like files being kept in the parts that would go into object storage (cpool). Also, in the current development builds, there are several fairly heavy operations on

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

2017-02-08 Thread Les Mikesell
On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 8:30 PM, Scott Walker wrote: > Infra is not really a concern for me, it's more will the software handle it. There aren't really any limits in the software. Just some inefficiency in the perl implementation of rsync in v3. I don't have any

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

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

2017-02-08 Thread Les Mikesell
On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 8:24 PM, Scott Walker wrote: > 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

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

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

2017-02-08 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Wednesday, February 08, 2017 9:24 PM -0500 Scott Walker wrote: > 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 possible fit. Deduplication and rsync

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

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

2017-02-08 Thread Adam Goryachev
On 09/02/17 09:52, Scott Walker wrote: > 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

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

2017-02-08 Thread Kenneth Porter
On 2/8/2017 2:52 PM, Scott Walker wrote: > I'm talking PBs of data, 100's of servers, hybrid environment. Mac, > Solaris, BSD, Linux, Windows. How big are the individual files? How much duplication? A big feature of BPC is the post-backup de-duplication that reduces the amount of backup

[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.