On 02/11/11 14:30, David Noriega wrote:
> I'm backing up our home directories, about 10TB. I haven't really
> timed things out yet, so I'm not sure if a full backup would finish in
> time. But its the schedule the boss wants.

I guess you won't know until you try it.

Is the concern that the homedirs are all on one big server, and that you
therefore have a single 10TB dataset to scan for changes?  If that's the
case, one thing that other users have reported good results with is
partitioning the homedirs into groups, so that you end up with say ten
1TB groups or even twenty 500GB groups, and back the groups up as
separate jobs that run in parallel.  This can give you a big speedup for
incrementals, which typically spend most of their time scanning for
changed files and relatively little actually backing up the changed files.


-- 
  Phil Stracchino, CDK#2     DoD#299792458     ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355
  alaric AT caerllewys DOT net   alaric AT metrocast DOT net   phil AT 
co.ordinate DOT org
         Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, Free Stater
                 It's not the years, it's the mileage.

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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 AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users