Author: Russell Poyner <russell.poyner AT wisc DOT edu>
Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2015 13:42:34 -0600
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 125002.37G
Author: Andrea Carpani <andrea.carpani AT dnshosting DOT it>
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2015 09:15:25 +0100
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 serv
Author: "Andreas Schnederle-Wagner - Futureweb.at" <schnederle AT futureweb DOT at>
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2015 08:26:18 +0000
Hello Andrea, we are using BackupPC for ~60 Servers with a total (deduped) Capacity of 6 TB - and no problems so far ... 375 full backups of total size 15200.45GB (prior to pooling and compression),
Hi, Using it here for the same amount of servers, both in the datacenter and remote. Because of the high load on the storage devices in the machine, we've choosen to split the backups over multiple s
Author: Marios Zindilis <marios AT zindilis DOT com>
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2015 10:57:08 +0200
The short answer is that you can definitely use BackupPC for your environment. I have used BackupPC in the past for a network of a couple hundred servers. The limitations will be in the capabilities
Author: Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom <chrome AT real-time DOT com>
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2015 07:50:55 -0500
I agree with the suggested ratio as a starting point. It's a very good idea to have multiple BackupPC servers. a) It spreads out the bisectional bandwidth of the backup process, since it's an 'embarr
Author: Andrea Carpani <andrea.carpani AT dnshosting DOT it>
Date: Sun, 01 Mar 2015 01:26:38 +0100
Thank you for your input. I'm a bit worried about the performance of the data structure used to back up file attributes: if I understand correctly everything is written in files inside a directory st
Author: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2015 22:22:55 -0600
Filesystems aren't such a bad place to store data... But when testing, keep in mind that your capacity will really depend on the rate of change of the target data. That is, when you use rsync you onl