Re: Speed up 400GB backup?

Hi,

[ This is my first post to this list, and it looks like "reply to all"is accepted here, so that's what I'm doing...]


Kris Vassallo wrote:

On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 04:24, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
/On Mon, 19 Jul 2004 at 5:19pm, Kris Vassallo wrote
420GB is not the total amount per night. Something is bogging this down
though and I don't know what. I am not using holding disks because the
majority of data is being backed up from one set of disks to another on
the same machine. This one machine has a set of RAID 10 disks. These
disks are backed up by amanda and put onto a set of RAID 5 disks. As far
Just as an aside, having your backup disks on the same controller as yourreal data seems a bit risky to me -- what if the controller goes? What ifit takes multiple disks with it?/
The whole thing of having the backup host being the same machine asthe file server no longer looks like a good idea. However, I am in ittoo deep to jump out now. I suppose that I could get a secondcontroller in the box, but to me it seems as if that would only createanother bottleneck, the pci bus.


Why?

You have the compression done on the client anyway, so just take anolder (probably Pentium II class or better) machine and use that as yourAmanda server.