Hi Zoltan,
OK, i will translate my text as there are some more approaches discussed :-)
breaking up the filesystems in several nodes will work as long as the
nodes are of suffiecient size.
I'm not sure if a PROXY node will solve the problem, because each
"member node" will backup the whole mountpoint. You will need to do
partial incremental backups. I expect you will do this based on folders,
do you?
So, some questions:
1) how will you distribute the folders to the nodes?
2) how will you ensure new folders are processed by one of your "member
nodes"? On our filers many folders are created and deleted, sometimes a
whole bunch every day. So for me, it was no option to maintain the
option file manually. The approach from my script / "MAGS" does this
somehow "automatically".
3) what happens if the folders grew not evenly and all the big ones are
backed up by one of your nodes? (OK you can change the distribution or
even add another node)
4) Are you going to map each backupnode to different nodes of the isilon
cluster to distribute the traffic / workload for the isilon nodes?
best
Bjørn
