My needs are somewhat different. I've got seperate backup servers because I need the space. I've currently got 23T of available storage, spread across 8 servers and backing up close to 30T of data. There's no way I can have my pool on a single filesystem.
I'm mainly interested in administering multiple copies of BackupPC from a single interface. It sounds like others would like to cluster BackupPC. Anybody with these same interests? Corey dan wrote: > David. I have been thinking a lot about this as i have an interesting > setup that multiple backup servers would be usefull for as well as a > cluster filesystem with redundancy. > > I would like to have 1 cluster filesystem with 3 backup server attached > to it. I have 3 'main' sites and20 satelites and each satilite is > served by these main sites. i would like to put a backuppc server at > each site for that segments backups as that would distribute my network > load as well as allow the cluster filesystem to retain remote > redundancy. My idea on this was to have just one server do the nightly > process and disable the nightly process on the other 2 backuppc > servers. they would not need to do the nightly because the first > machine would handle the pool cleanup for all of them on the cluster > filesystem. each machine could share the same pool. > > the tricks are 1)finding the right cluster filesystem that you can set > the number of remote copies so in my case 3 copies, that would > essentially make them all live mirrors. 2) makeing sure that having > multiple servers writing to the filesystem and therefore to the pool > simultaniously would not create any issues and 3) managing bandwidth on > the cluster filesystem so it does not saturate the connections. > > this does not solve the issue of having 1 interface for all the servers > but pulls all the backups together as a more cohesive solution. > > alternatively i was going to get a fancy RAID controller like a DELL > PERC5 or something that can take 512MB of cache memory and allow more > backups to run simultaniuosly but im worried about saturating my T1. > > a really issue here is that the prefered method for backups is rsync and > it has some serious issues with large numbers of files. I have 2GB of > RAM in my server and im startion to run into issues syncing my backuppc > machine accross the network because of filecount. > > > On Jan 20, 2008 8:45 PM, David Nalley <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > My employer would even go so far as to be willing to contribute to a > bounty for this. By and large I know that such isn't generally of > interest to Craig, but don't know how else to help push gthe > development of such an addition. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on behalf of > [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Sun 1/20/2008 9:12 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; > [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Multiple BPC CGI interface. > > I second some level of modification for mulitserver environments or > "clustered" backup servers with common SAN/NAS storage. Then have a > primary backup machine and slaves so that all backups are managed by > the master and it assignes the job to the appropriate cluster member > which may be itself. > > I would much rather have a master/slave cluster environment than > just an interface that included a number of machines. > > This does imply some change to the storage mechanism to allow > multiple users concurrent access to the same fileset or the use of > some cluster filesystem. > > I know a lot of people like simplicity but there is.a certain level > of complexoty neccessary for backuppc to reach the next level. > > > Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry > > -----Original Message----- > From: Corey Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> > > Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 21:03:08 > To:[email protected] > <mailto:To:[email protected]> > Subject: [BackupPC-users] Multiple BPC CGI interface. > > > Has anybody seen or is anybody interested in developing a multiple > server interface for BackupPC? > > I've currently got 8 backup servers running, and although I've got a > back-end system for tracking where client machines are backed up, a > single CGI interface that managed them all would be ideal. > > Thoughts? > > -- > Thank you, > Corey Baldwin > Mojohost.. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > Defy all challenges. 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