On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 3:46 PM, Lord Sporkton <lordsporkton AT gmail DOT com> 
wrote:
> As mentioned we have multiple customers and departments. It's not just one
> server. Also 50g data bases aren't the largest. We have ones upto 200g
> individual dbs. Also we're using scsi drives which cost a pretty penny.

I think you are missing what people are saying.  Throw some big, cheap
SATA drives somewhere, on any convenient box (possibly the backuppc
server itself) and write your db dumps from other hosts there over the
network using   |ssh host 'cat >file',  nfs or smb.    Then if you
want a history, let backuppc back up this holding space.  However,
backuppc isn't great for storing lots of copies of large files with
small differences.  Depending on the database contents, you may get
pretty good compression on the content but it is still going to store
a complete copy of the data for every version.  Unlike, for example, a
large directory of files where only a few small files change between
copies and backuppc can hardlink the duplicates.

--
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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