Re: [BackupPC-users] Hardware considerations for building dedicated back

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Re: [BackupPC-users] Hardware considerations for building dedicated backuppc server

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Stephen Vaughan <stephenvaughan AT gmail DOT com>

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Mon, 6 Jul 2009 20:06:19 +1000

okay network is one I left out, but I don't find that to be a problem. It rarely goes above 30mbit. Our setup is a single box w/ Xeon dual core 2.4ghz x 2, 2x300gig 10k scsi (raid 1) drives and 4gig memory, Debian 5.0, gigabit ethernet.

We struggle to backup 4 servers each night, 453gigs / 7,807,318 files. Backup window is 9pm to 9am, and we just fit inside that each night. We do incrementals 6 nights a week and 1 full per week.

I'm thinking of upgrading the box to raid5 array with 15k scsi drives, more memory and a quad core cpu. It's difficult to know what is enough though..

On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 4:27 PM, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky <backuppc AT kosowsky DOT org> wrote:

Stephen Vaughan wrote at about 15:11:43 +1000 on Monday, July 6, 2009:

> Hi all,
>
> In everyone's opinion, which resource(s) does backuppc rely on the most?
> cpu, memory or disk?

None of the above. I find "network bandwidth" typically most rate
limiting.

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