Re: [Bacula-users] Replacing WSB with Bacula - need help with hardware requirements
Hi Vancho, Here we have this hardware: - Intel Xeon 1.6 QuadCore - 4GB RAM - Ubuntu (we have used FreeBSD too...) - 1TB for spool - TL2000 Tape library We are currently backing up around 40 servers (Windows, Linux, *BSD*), with 10 max concurrent jobs, our FULL backup is around 5TB, which runs on weekends and for week days we run differential backups. Our Bacula server runs smoothly, never using it's full resources, so maybe you can go with a less powerfull hardware, specially if you can setup the database on a different server, speaking of databases I recommend Postgres over MySQL, because as the tables grow with data, Postgres has proven to be faster and requires less maintenance work. That's it, hope this can help :) Fabio Almeida On 02/17/11 03:30, Vancho Gjeorgjievski wrote: Hi guys, My name is Vancho, I work as a system engineer for small software company located in Australia. The company I work for has 15 business critical servers, based on Microsoft platform, which I manage on daily basis, and one of the key ITSM services I provide is Backup Management. We’re not satisfied with Windows Backup features and performance, so we decided to replace it with Bacula. I read a lot about this software and I found it to be quite in compliance with our company’s requirements. Currently I’m preparing detailed design for the Bacula deployment, and at the moment I’m facing difficulties selecting the appropriate hardware for Bacula to run on. In the Bacula documentation I couldn’t find the section that points to the minimal or the optimal hardware requirements. So I thought to ask you to help me with my trouble, could you please recommend which hardware would be most suitable for my environment? The spread sheet contains the servers that consist our server farm. Thanks in front! J Server Role OS Processor RAM HDD Network vartry DC Windows Server 2008 x86 _2xXeon@2.7GHz mailto:2xXeon@2.7GHz_ 3GB 40 GB 100 Mbps Ethernet ryex2010svr01 Exchange server 2010 Windows Server 2008 R2 x64 _2xXeon@3.6GHz mailto:2xXeon@3.6GHz_ 4GB 150 GB 100 Mbps Ethernet ulster CRM Windows Server 2008 x86 _2xXeon@2.8GHz mailto:2xXeon@2.8GHz_ 2GB 70 GB 100 Mbps Ethernet galway Management server Windows Server 2003 x86 _8xXeon@2.8GHz mailto:8xXeon@2.8GHz_ 4GB 200 GB 100 Mbps Ethernet croanbane SQL Server 2005 / 2008 Windows Server 2003 x86 _4xXeon@3GHz mailto:4xXeon@3GHz_ 3GB 200 GB 100 Mbps Ethernet shannon Sharepoint server Windows Server 2003 x86 _4xXeon@2.7GHz mailto:4xXeon@2.7GHz_ 2GB 70 GB 100 Mbps Ethernet bellmount TeamFoundation server / SQL server Windows Server 2003 x86 _2xXeon@3GHz mailto:2xXeon@3GHz_ 2GB 150 GB 100 Mbps Ethernet kilcoole SMTP gateway Windows Server 2003 x86 _P3@647MHz mailto:P3@647MHz_ 128 MB 25 GB 100 Mbps Ethernet delgany Web (IIS) server Windows Server 2003 x86 _2xXeon@3GHz mailto:2xXeon@3GHz_ 3GB 100 GB 100 Mbps Ethernet ms-isa Gateway server / ISA Firewall Windows Server 2003 x86 _4xXeon@3.4GHz mailto:4xXeon@3.4GHz_ 4GB 300 GB 100 Mbps Ethernet antrim Application Server Windows Server 2003 x86 _2xXeon@3Ghz mailto:2xXeon@3Ghz_ 2GB 200 GB 100 Mbps Ethernet luas HyperV host Windows Server 2008 R2 x64 _4xi5@2.7GHz mailto:4xi5@2.7GHz_ 8GB 2TB 100 Mbps Ethernet kudos Application Server Windows Server 2008 R2 x64 _2xXeon@3Ghz mailto:2xXeon@3Ghz_ 2GB 200 GB 100 Mbps Ethernet lee Sharepoint server Windows Server 2008 R2 x64 _2xXeon@3Ghz mailto:2xXeon@3Ghz_ 2GB 200 GB 100 Mbps Ethernet Best Regards Gjeorgjievski Vancho System Engineer VB.NET Pty Ltd http://vb.net.au -- The ultimate all-in-one performance toolkit: Intel(R) Parallel Studio XE: Pinpoint memory and threading errors before they happen. Find and fix more than 250 security defects in the development cycle. Locate bottlenecks in serial and parallel code that limit performance. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devfeb
Re: [Bacula-users] Replacing WSB with Bacula - need help with hardware requirements
On 2/16/11 9:30 PM, Vancho Gjeorgjievski wrote: Hi guys, My name is Vancho, I work as a system engineer for small software company located in Australia. The company I work for has 15 business critical servers, based on Microsoft platform, which I manage on daily basis, and one of the key ITSM services I provide is Backup Management. We’re not satisfied with Windows Backup features and performance, so we decided to replace it with Bacula. I read a lot about this software and I found it to be quite in compliance with our company’s requirements. Currently I’m preparing detailed design for the Bacula deployment, and at the moment I’m facing difficulties selecting the appropriate hardware for Bacula to run on. In the Bacula documentation I couldn’t find the section that points to the minimal or the optimal hardware requirements. So I thought to ask you to help me with my trouble, could you please recommend which hardware would be most suitable for my environment? The spread sheet contains the servers that consist our server farm. Thanks in front! J Server Role OS Processor RAM HDD Network vartry DC Windows Server 2008 x86 _2xXeon@2.7GHz mailto:2xXeon@2.7GHz_ 3GB 40 GB 100 Mbps Ethernet ryex2010svr01 Exchange server 2010 Windows Server 2008 R2 x64 _2xXeon@3.6GHz mailto:2xXeon@3.6GHz_ 4GB 150 GB 100 Mbps Ethernet ulster CRM Windows Server 2008 x86 _2xXeon@2.8GHz mailto:2xXeon@2.8GHz_ 2GB 70 GB 100 Mbps Ethernet galway Management server Windows Server 2003 x86 _8xXeon@2.8GHz mailto:8xXeon@2.8GHz_ 4GB 200 GB 100 Mbps Ethernet croanbane SQL Server 2005 / 2008 Windows Server 2003 x86 _4xXeon@3GHz mailto:4xXeon@3GHz_ 3GB 200 GB 100 Mbps Ethernet shannon Sharepoint server Windows Server 2003 x86 _4xXeon@2.7GHz mailto:4xXeon@2.7GHz_ 2GB 70 GB 100 Mbps Ethernet bellmount TeamFoundation server / SQL server Windows Server 2003 x86 _2xXeon@3GHz mailto:2xXeon@3GHz_ 2GB 150 GB 100 Mbps Ethernet kilcoole SMTP gateway Windows Server 2003 x86 _P3@647MHz mailto:P3@647MHz_ 128 MB 25 GB 100 Mbps Ethernet delgany Web (IIS) server Windows Server 2003 x86 _2xXeon@3GHz mailto:2xXeon@3GHz_ 3GB 100 GB 100 Mbps Ethernet ms-isa Gateway server / ISA Firewall Windows Server 2003 x86 _4xXeon@3.4GHz mailto:4xXeon@3.4GHz_ 4GB 300 GB 100 Mbps Ethernet antrim Application Server Windows Server 2003 x86 _2xXeon@3Ghz mailto:2xXeon@3Ghz_ 2GB 200 GB 100 Mbps Ethernet luas HyperV host Windows Server 2008 R2 x64 _4xi5@2.7GHz mailto:4xi5@2.7GHz_ 8GB 2TB 100 Mbps Ethernet kudos Application Server Windows Server 2008 R2 x64 _2xXeon@3Ghz mailto:2xXeon@3Ghz_ 2GB 200 GB 100 Mbps Ethernet lee Sharepoint server Windows Server 2008 R2 x64 _2xXeon@3Ghz mailto:2xXeon@3Ghz_ 2GB 200 GB 100 Mbps Ethernet Vancho, You have about 4 TB worth of drives and if you are saving 1/2 of that, your space needs are 2 TB + whatever scheme(retention, incremental, etc) you plan use. I'd get a Coraid.com AOE storage machine with a minimal, stable Linux server running bacula SD and DIR as the head - and about 4 GB of RAM. I'd populate it with enterprise drives no larger than 750 GB. Why AOE ? - it is built-in into the Linux kernel and is simple, fast and stable technology. It will handle RAID and their 15-bay will be scalable. It has 3 PSUs for redundancy. It is fairly cheap and you can use whichever enterprise drives you want. Mehma -- The ultimate all-in-one performance toolkit: Intel(R) Parallel Studio XE: Pinpoint memory and threading errors before they happen. Find and fix more than 250 security defects in the development cycle. Locate bottlenecks in serial and parallel code that limit performance. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devfeb___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Replacing WSB with Bacula - need help with hardware requirements
Hi Vancho, Short answer - none of them. Bacula no longer actively supports Windows as the director OS. Go to MSY and buy a quad-core box with 8/12/16/26/96GB RAM and a handful of 2TB disks, get a tape autoloader, install the Linux/BSD/Solaris of your choice, and Bob's Your Uncle. Of course, if you are going to go the disk-based backup route, you could install VirtualBox/VMWare/Xen on one of your Windows boxen and then put Linux/BSD/Solaris on that... I'd offer to help, but you are in Sydney, and no-one worth worrying about is in Sydney :-). (Of *course* I'm in Melbourne, where else would I be.) Cheers, GaryB-) -- The ultimate all-in-one performance toolkit: Intel(R) Parallel Studio XE: Pinpoint memory and threading errors before they happen. Find and fix more than 250 security defects in the development cycle. Locate bottlenecks in serial and parallel code that limit performance. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devfeb ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
