Andrea,

I'm running backup pc on 50+ machines, mostly windows desktops with a 
few linux servers.

There are 56 hosts that have been backed up, for a total of:

432 full backups of total size 125002.37GB (prior to pooling and 
compression),
302 incr backups of total size 3794.89GB (prior to pooling and compression).

The server is PC-BSD 10 with the backuppc data in a ZFS storage pool. I 
don't have problems with load spikes when backuppc is running, but I 
limit it to 8 concurrent jobs on 8 server cores.

The only problem I have is that running rsync on windows is a bit of a 
pain. Lots of discussion of that on this list.

Settings for zfs if you go that route:
Do NOT use zfs dedupe
turn compression off in backuppc
set compression to lz4 in zfs for your backup pool

RP



On 02/27/2015 02:15 AM, Andrea Carpani wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm currently evaluating BackupPC as a backup solution and I have some
> questions to begin with.
>
> My main concern is about the environment we're going to backup: we have
> ~100 shared hosting servers.
> This means that each server has:
> ~ 400 users
> ~ 300Gb /home partition
> ~ 8M files on each server
>
> I know the pimary target for BackupPC is laptops and desktops: has
> anyone ever tried this software in such environment?
>
> Regards,
>


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