Hello fellow Bacula users! I've only been lurking on this list for a little while, please excuse me if this topic has been covered previously.
I've got what I would consider a large network of machines each hosting many virtual private servers with Virtuozzo. http://www.swsoft.com/en/products/virtuozzo/ (19 servers, each hosting an average of 65 virtual environments, average 160GB data per server. Total data to back up ~ 3TB. Generous estimate to allow for growth.) I've been tasked with replacing an aging Amanda install that has been backing them up to disk daily. I've done some testing already with a couple of the servers, and have recently started a backup of all systems. Ran into a small problem with the catalog where the File table grew to 4GB and claimed to be full, easily fixed by switching from MyISAM to the InnoDB engine. It got me thinking though, are there any other "gotchas" or caveats anyone else has overcome in backing up such a large quantity of data? We have a gigabit Ethernet network over which the backups are run, but it still seems to take an inordinate amount of time to complete a full backup. Currently filling a two gigabyte volume every 6 minutes on average. At that rate, it will take 6 days to finish a full backup?! Maybe I'm doing the math wrong (I already know I haven't taken compression into account), but I think I'm missing something. Comments and suggestions welcome! Thanks for such a great project! (It's backing up my home network of 3 Macs handily!) Oh yeah: Director is running on a FreeBSD 5.4 box, all other clients are Linux. Bacula version 1.36.3 compiled from source (ports tree on director). Thanks in advance, Lyle Vogtmann ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
