Thats a great point Adam.
How many people actually need ALL of their backups on the same server?
Realistically, build a machine to suite your needs and find a price to
performance/reliability balance and duplicate that setup as many times as
needed. Backup similar machines(OS) together on the backuppc farm to
maximize hardlink savings and life is good :)
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 9:52 AM, Les Mikesell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Adam Goryachev wrote:
> >
> > Winning isn't the fun, finding out how to squeeze an extra 10%
> > performance from existing hardware is :) My own backup server is running
> > on a PIV 1.8GHz with 768M RAM.
>
> On a more practical note, probably everyone who needs multi-TB backups
> already has a closet full of last-generation PC's or can buy one for
> $100 or less. It's going to be cheaper to stick a new SATA card and a
> couple of big cheap drives in a separate box with a free OS and
> application than to throw exotic hardware or performance tuning at a
> capacity bottleneck. The first thing to think about might be splitting
> the windows and Linux targets off to separate servers, or some other
> grouping that would maintain the best pooling of duplicate data.
>
> --
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