Timothy J Massey wrote at about 17:20:13 -0400 on Friday, April 26, 2013: > <[email protected]> wrote on 04/26/2013 05:04:07 PM: > > > If you are indeed talking about files in the 50-200GB range, you are > > not going to fit more than a handful of files per TB disk... even if > > you have a RAID array of multiple disks, you are still probably > > talking about only a small number of files. So, you are probably > > better off writing a simple script that just back up those few DB > > files and rotates them if you want to retain several older copies.
> with hot-spare, I still got >24TB of space. That puppy moves >800MB/s to > the drives... All for $6k. If I had cut some corners on RAM and CPU (and > skipped the extra GbE ports) it would have been a little over under $4k. > > That's enough space for more than 100 copies of a 200GB database.... And > you could still use BackupPC for keeping older copies around over time, > even if you don't get much help with pooling... > My point is that even with o(100) files/copies which assuming you are backing up multiple versions means you have far fewer distinct files -- you may be better off just writing a script... BackupPC is really targeted at backing up large trees of thousands of files. If you just have a 100 large databases, why not just use a cron script that copies each one and appends a datestamp or stores it in a different folder. It will probably be much faster too... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Try New Relic Now & We'll Send You this Cool Shirt New Relic is the only SaaS-based application performance monitoring service that delivers powerful full stack analytics. Optimize and monitor your browser, app, & servers with just a few lines of code. Try New Relic and get this awesome Nerd Life shirt! http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic_d2d_apr _______________________________________________ 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/
