Hello,
On 2/7/2006 2:06 PM, Beren Gamble wrote:
Hi everyone,
I've got 3 bacula servers:
One with 6 seperate tape units. Currently backing up 30 servers
One with 1 tape unit. Backing up 15 servers
One with an autochanger. Backing up 15 servers.
Every night we do a full backup.
Ok, to determine what's most useful to do you'd have to provide more
information: What amount of data, how long a downtime can you afford,
and how long do the backups run, compared to your backup window. And
lots of other small stuff.
I'm wondering if I should bin the first two servers and put everything on the
one with the autochanger. I'd have to change the backup type to Incremental. Is
restoring from incremental backups easy with Bacula?
I guess that depends on a number of additional factors: Can your one
server actually manage the number of backups, and can you attach all the
needed drives to it without problems?
Is a larger installation which can become a single point of failure
worth the trouble to change the setup? Or is managing three backup
systems more work than you can handle?
Also, my database would become HUGE as we'd have 50 boxes being backed up.
In case you have the catalogs on the backup servers themselves, you
might gain more by converting one of the servers to a dedicated database
server, handling the catalog only. Usually, you can get your databases
quite fast if they can occupy the whole machine.
What do you think I should do?
Think about it carefully :-)
Or give me some more information, but with the necessary information
you'll probably find the right solution yourself ;-)
You could, of course, also pay me to ask you more detailed questions :-)
(partly joking)
Arno
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