On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 8:24 PM, Scott Walker <scott.wal...@framestore.com> wrote: > Individual files range from k text files, to100GB+ in size. Everything from > images to movies files, to text, to VM images. (We are a VFX studio). > > And mainly unique files. so deduplication I'm not honestly concerned about. > I just like BackupPC UI and it's easy of use and I'm wondering if this is a > possible fit. >
I don't think there should be any real surprises in terms of capacity if you have hardware to handle it. There are a few things that aren't exactly optimal, at least in v3. One is that the entire directory tree is transmitted before the comparison starts and it is held in RAM on both sides. This can be a problem where there are millions of files on a target host. Another is that very large files with changes can be slow to handle since the server has to uncompress and copy the previous version while merging the differences and then recompress again. And, the archive storage must be a single volume for the hardlinks to work, although you can use LVM to work around physical limits. However, the price is right... The nice thing about free software is that if you need multiple instances you don't pay any more for the extra licenses. I'd give it a try and if you need more than one server, try to group the most similar targets together. You may need to add the hosts a few at a time to skew the days that the full backups will run. Also, note that backups become faster after the 2nd full run. If you use the --checksum-seed option the rsync block checksums are cached on the server so the archive copy no longer has to be uncompressed for the rsync comparisons. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/