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Henrik Johansen wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> I have some questions regarding disk based backups that I hope some of you
> could answer for me. I am currently managing 100+ UNIX systems that are 
> backed 
> up using a variety of scripts which I really would like to replace with 
> something 
> solid, flexible, scalable and easy to manage.
> 
> Bacula seems to be heavily centralized around tape and my head hurts a bit 
> from 
> trying to figure out how to do efficient disk based backup for 100+ clients 
> without 
> shooting myself in the foot :)

Why do you conclude it is highly centralized around tape?

> All our UNIX boxes follow a 3 week rotation with 1 full backup every week and 
> incrementals in between but I would like to be able to change this on a per 
> client basis.

You can.

> My plan is to have a redundant pair of directors and 3 storage daemons 
> running 
> off 3 seperat Solaris ZFS backends.

What will you do with the two directors?  Will both be active?

> What combo of pools / volumes do people recommend ? A pool per client ? A 
> pool per 
> backup type, eg. full, diff, incr ? Seperate volumes per client perhaps ?

It depends upon your goals.  Do you want to do concurrent backups?  How
much data will you be storing at a given time?

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Dan Langille

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