Lyle Vogtmann wrote:
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
i could be wrong, but it sounds to me like that would be about the
maximum write speed of regular HDs ...
Florian
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