I was about to suggest something like Ski has.
Instead of trying to have 1 server that handles everything, just use
multiple servers to do the work. I am interested in the concept of using
some network/cluster filesystem to have multiple servers backup to a single
SAN/NAS with the cluster filesystem.
On Jan 14, 2008 11:39 AM, Ski Kacoroski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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
> >
>
> --
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>
> Chris "Ski" Kacoroski, [EMAIL PROTECTED], 206-501-9803
> or ski98033 on most IM services and gizmo
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