On 1/13/2011 9:36 AM, Sorin Srbu wrote:
>
>> Some history of previous versions is important for us too, and the
>> backuppc server is the only source of historic data here.
>
> Some explaining is perhaps necessary. Our BPC-project started because the
> *nix-users needed to backup some really large molecular modeling projects.
> These are easily in the 5+GB range each, and the users produce sometime five
> or so a day each. With four (current) users doing this we fill up storage
> fast. With this in mind and the time this was begun, storage was still pretty
> expensive. This means we only keep about 5-6 full backups, depending on how
> much storage is available. That's our historic data.

Is there a lot of block-level duplication among these?  If so it might 
be worth setting up something with zfs.  You should be able to run the 
free version of nexentastor on something that size - not sure how it 
would work with backuppc.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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