I need some help coming up with a good backup strategy for our situation. I have about 10TB of user home directories(and about the same for lab shares). I've gone through the manual, tutorials, etc a
Author: Richard Scobie <richard AT sauce.co DOT nz>
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 07:17:01 +1200
One solution to feed your drives at full speed, is to build a low cost server containing an array of SATA drives, sufficient to hold all that you are backing up, and attach the library to it. Rsync t
Its an idea, but not what I asked. I would have gone with a completely disked based backup, but that kind of hardware is expensive to do it right. I asked about multiplexing. I figure I could take /h
Author: Richard Scobie <richard AT sauce.co DOT nz>
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 08:43:40 +1200
My apologies, I distinctly thought you said "as much data as these drives can take pouring into them, since this is taking too long to do a backup". The outlined solution achieves that at a much lowe
Author: Phil Stracchino <alaric AT metrocast DOT net>
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 20:52:37 -0400
You do NOT want to do this. If you're trying to run four concurrent backup sessions on a single host, you will totally hammer the disk subsystem with seeks and your throughput will drop into the thir