Not sure if there is such a thing as "a standard bacula configuration", but
as I said, the simple math says that if you only do 1 monthly full backup
and you keep the last year's worth of full backups, you'll need 2.4TB of
storage.  This completely ignores the retention of other backup levels.

On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 4:51 PM, Thing <thing.th...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> It is a standard bacula configuration, data will also not change much.  So
> from your estimate with compression a 3TB drive would seem the minimum.
>
> On 28 October 2015 at 09:14, John Lockard <jlock...@umich.edu> wrote:
>
>> How often are you backing up?  Fulls, Differentials, Incrementals?  How
>> long do you want to keep each?  How compressible is your data?  How much
>> does the data change?  How often does the data change?
>>
>> Too many variables to answer your questions as given.
>>
>> Only full backups, once a month, you'd need 200GB x 12 (ignoring
>> compression) = 2.4TB
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 4:08 PM, Thing <thing.th...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> To backup 200gb with 1 year retention roughly how big a disk would be
>>> required?  2tb? 3tb?
>>>
>>>
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