On Saturday 28 November 2009 15:38:36 Ralf Gross wrote: > Kern Sibbald schrieb: > > > [...] > > > Anyone else here with the same problem? Anyone (maybe Kern or Eric) > > > here that can tell if one of the upcoming new bacula features (dedup?) > > > could help to solve the problem with the massive amount of tapes > > > needed and the growing time windows and bandwidth for backups? > > > > Last week Eric and I visited a customer that has the following in just 1 > > of 5 datacenters: > > - 10TB/day backed up > > - 800+ Jobs/day > > - 125TB total data backed up > > - Growing rapidly > > - No tape backup (a bit unusual) > > Can you write a bit more about their backup2disk setup?
Sorry, I cannot say much because I don't have all the details and for confidentiality reasons. > They must have > many very large raid arrays witch they then use as bacula sd-devices. Yes, *very* large arrays. They use ZFS which simplifies a lot of provisioning pains. > > > It does take some big iron to run such operations, but Bacula can and is > > handling it. Obviously it takes professional configuration and tuning of > > the hardware, systems, and Bacula. > > No doubt. > > > We are discussing various ways of doing deduplication, better Windows > > backup, better and faster bare metal recovery, better reporting, archival > > storage, multiple datacenters coordination, ... as part of development > > plans for 2010. > > Accurate Backup together with Dedup would be a great feature (Bacula > already used the database for Accurate Backup, so adding a dedup > feature seems not too far away). The next version (3.2.0) has file level deduplication (Base Job feature). > > > The above is only one example. There are a lot of such sites out there, > > some we know about, and others that are doing their own thing with > > Bacula. Many want significant funded development, which will provide > > opportunities for Bacula programmers (if anyone is a Windows expert > > programmer, please contact me). > > > > Since we (Bacula Systems) are an full Open Source company, this will also > > add a nice number of new features and capabilities for Bacula, since all > > code created for funded development goes into the project. > > > > Good luck, > > > > Kern > > > > PS: tip -- a key to reducing time windows is to ensure you have the right > > bandwidth into the SD and that your catalog is properly tuned (probably > > running PostgreSQL). > > I'm happy with the performance of bacula and our LTO4 drives. A single > job is able to write with 130 MB/s to tape ;) Yes, that is a good speed, which shows that you have your system well tuned. Kern ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Bacula-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel
