David, I backup around 1500 clients to a set of (8) low end 1U x86 boxes. Each box has a 3ware card with (4) 250G disks in a raid 5 setup. Each box can handle 4 concurrent backups/restores at a time (at one point when the client machines were old and failing we were doing 10 - 15 restores a week). With BackupPC's compression and deduping I am backing up about 1 - 1.2TB of client data to 500 - 600GB on the BackupPC servers. This set up has been running for close to 3 years now with no problems.
Since I backup up 30 different sites, I put 2 - 4 sites per server. I then have a static front end web page that people go to and pick the site they are at that directs them to the correct backuppc server for restores and checking backup status. cheers, ski On Sun, 13 Jan 2008 14:46:28 -0500 "David Nalley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have been running BackupPC with a number of clients for the past few > months. I am about to add even more clients to the degree that I > think I will have to add 2-3 additional BackupPC servers. I am > curious to find out how others are scaling BackupPC. The storage for > this is a SAN, and I have contemplated whether or not I could have > 3-4 machines accessing the same filesystem (maybe a GFS or OCFS > paritition). I don't mind having multiple machines and thus multiple > front-ends, but I am not unwilling to invest some time to get a > unified multi-server approach. That being said, I see no point in > reinventing the wheel so please tell me how you are scaling BackupPC. > > Thanks, > > David Nalley > -- "When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it connected to the entire universe" John Muir Chris "Ski" Kacoroski, [EMAIL PROTECTED], 206-501-9803 or ski98033 on most IM services and gizmo ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
