Thank you for the response Uwe. It gives me some idea on some items to look at when scaling the environment.
On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 3:02 AM, Uwe Schuerkamp <uwe.schuerk...@nionex.net> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 07, 2014 at 03:32:01PM -1000, Romeo Theriault wrote: >> Hi Uwe, thanks for the response. I'm not sure how many directors we'll >> have. Was going to start with one and go from there. How many do you have >> for your 110 client setup? It's good to hear you're fairly happy with the >> separate d/p/v for each client scheme. >> >> Initially we'll be backing up about 8TB nightly on incremental's and about >> 30TB on a full. >> >> Any tips you might have in terms of # of directors or catalogs or media >> servers we should start with would be appreciated. Otherwise It'll be a >> trial and error for me. :) >> > > Hi Romeo, > > we run a total of four directors for about 200 clients, but this is > due to the fact we host servers in separate locations so it makes > sense to back them up locally. > > The largest installation has about 120 clients and runs just fine, > backing up about 1 TB daily and around 6TB over the weekend over > gigabit links to HP MSA boxes connected to the director /sd which > sustain around 120MB/sec write speed on average (using client side > compression, both gzip and lzo where necessary). > > You seem to expect a rather large daily backup volume though so I > guess if anything you might be bandwith- rather than cpu bound. What > kind of network connectivity will you be using, that throughput can be > achieved on the backup disks and so on? These are all important > factors in designing your infrastructure. > > All the best, Uwe > > -- > NIONEX --- Ein Unternehmen der Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CenturyLink Cloud: The Leader in Enterprise Cloud Services. Learn Why More Businesses Are Choosing CenturyLink Cloud For Critical Workloads, Development Environments & Everything In Between. Get a Quote or Start a Free Trial Today. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=119420431&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
