Re: [BackupPC-users] maximum clients/data
2008-11-28 15:09:25
Thomas von Eyben wrote at about 20:44:05 +0100 on Friday, November 28, 2008:
> On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 8:22 PM, Ski Kacoroski <kacoroski AT gmail DOT com>
> wrote:
> > As far as I am concerned, BackupPC scales very well. I run 200 - 250
> > clients onto 3 year old single proc, 1GB ram, and (4) 250GB sata disks
> > in a raid 5. The limiting factor is the I/O throughput.
>
> How do you configure your clients to make sure that not all 250
> clients are being backed up at the same time, IE how are you
> distributing the load?
I assume he uses a (possibly adjusted) version of the default
configuration parameters:
$Conf{MaxBackups} = 4;
Plus some of the related parameters (as needed)
$Conf{MaxUserBackups} = 4;
$Conf{MaxPendingCmds} = 10;
>
> I am currently planning to evaluete backuppc to back up about the same
> amount of clients and I am a little "nervous" of the peak load if I
> am not capable of distributing the load over the full working day
> (clients are mainly labtops -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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