Re: [BackupPC-users] Centralized storage with multiple hard drives

Performance-wise, 100 hosts per BackupPC server shouldn't be a problem. I have 1 BackupPC server backing up ~100 other Linux machines, and it manages to keep up with performance, with compression enabled. If compression was disabled, I reckon I could backup even more clients.

That thing you mention for separate "disk" or "partition" per client though is unusual... The first consideration is that deduplication won't work (you state that you don't need it anyway) because BackupPC won't be able to create hard links between the files of each client. Other than that, I think that backing up each host in a different directory is contrary to the basic logic of BackupPC, and not possible.

On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 12:53 PM, thorvald <backuppc-forum AT backupcentral DOT com> wrote:

Hi,

I have got a question. I'm going to use a BackupPC as a backup solution. First of all I need to build some sort of POC but when it will be fine I will need to backup couple of hundreds servers. I faced some sort of design problem with BackupPC and would like to ask if there is any way to resolve this issue.

Let's say that the storage is not a problem for me and I can have as many TB or PT as I need. However the main assumption is that every box has got a separate "disk" to be backed up to. So now I faced the problem with BackupPC which does use pool or cpool to store files within :/. I don't need any compression or deduplication. Is there any way to backup files directly to pc/HOST/ instead ?

I'm not going to backup couple of hundreds servers using one BackupPC instance of course but I want to back up at least 100 servers per BackupPC instance.

Is there something you could advise me ?

Thank you!

Regards.

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