Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc in large environments

2020-12-02 Thread Richard Shaw
On Wed, Dec 2, 2020 at 7:30 AM Daniel Berteaud wrote: > All this workflow can be seen in my virt-backup script [1], which is a > helper for BackupPC to backup libvirt managed VM. > Daniel, I'd like to talk to you about formally packaging your script for Fedora / EPEL. I just packaged chunkfs

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc in large environments

2020-12-02 Thread Daniel Berteaud
- Le 2 Déc 20, à 12:53, Dave Sherohman a écrit : > - I'm definitely backing up the VMs as individual hosts, not as disk image > files. Aside from minimizing atomicity concerns, it also makes single-file > restores easier and, in the backuppc context, I doubt that deduplication would > work

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc in large environments

2020-12-02 Thread Dave Sherohman
Thanks, everyone!  Looks like backuppc should be able to handle my network, no problem.  To hit on specific points, in threaded order: - I'll be sure to get plenty of RAM.  We're going to be buying a new, probably Dell, rackmount system for this and I wouldn't have been getting any less than

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc in large environments

2020-12-01 Thread Adam Goryachev via BackupPC-users
On 2/12/20 10:35, G.W. Haywood via BackupPC-users wrote: Hi there, On Tue, 1 Dec 2020, backuppc-users-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net wrote: How big can backuppc reasonably scale? Remember you can scale vertically or horizontally. Either get a bigger machine for your backups, or get more

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc in large environments

2020-12-01 Thread G.W. Haywood via BackupPC-users
Hi there, On Tue, 1 Dec 2020, backuppc-users-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net wrote: How big can backuppc reasonably scale? You can scale it yourself as has already been suggested, but I don't think you'd have any problems with a single backup server and the data volumes you've described if you

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc in large environments

2020-12-01 Thread Daniel Berteaud
- Le 1 Déc 20, à 16:33, Dave Sherohman dave.sheroh...@ub.lu.se a écrit : > > Is this something that backuppc could reliably handle? > > If so, what kind of CPU resources would it require?  I've already got a > decent handle on the network requirements from observing the current TSM >

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc in large environments

2020-12-01 Thread Les Mikesell
On Tue, Dec 1, 2020 at 9:50 AM Dave Sherohman wrote: > > Is this something that backuppc could reliably handle? > > If so, what kind of CPU resources would it require? I've already got a > decent handle on the network requirements from observing the current TSM > backups and can calculate likely

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc in large environments

2020-12-01 Thread Richard Shaw
So long story short, a lot of it will depend on how fast your data changes/grows, but it doesn't necessarily require a high end computer. You really just need something beefy enough as to not be the bottleneck. If you can make the client I/O the bottleneck, then you're good. Depending on your

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc in large environments

2020-12-01 Thread Paul Leyland
My network is rather smaller but still bigger than most home systems. Please keep that in mind. The backup server is a very elderly "Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU  6600  @ 2.40GHz" with 8G RAM.  /var/lib/backuppc is a ZFS raidz array of three 4TB disks, giving a useful space of 3.6T, of which

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc in large environments

2020-12-01 Thread Richard Shaw
Not a direct response to your question but I run my to backup computers at my home, so quite a bit smaller scale, however, the 4th gen i5 SFF PC I bought off Ebay w/ 1TB hard drive dedicated to BackupPC and M.2 SSD for CentOS 8 works quite well for me, so a REAL computer should do fine. I did max