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Re: [BackupPC-users] Usage of BackupPC in large environment

2015-02-28 19:28:16
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Usage of BackupPC in large environment
From: Andrea Carpani <andrea.carpani AT dnshosting DOT it>
To: "General list for user discussion, questions and support" <backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Sun, 01 Mar 2015 01:26:38 +0100
Thank you for your input.

I'm a bit worried about the performance of the data structure used to 
back up file attributes: if I understand correctly everything is written 
in files inside a directory structure. Anyway I'll make some tests and 
I'll see.

Regards,


On 27/02/2015 10:02, Micha Kersloot wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Using it here for the same amount of servers, both in the datacenter and 
> remote. Because of the high load on the storage devices in the machine, we've 
> choosen to split the backups over multiple smaller backuppc servers.
>
> We still experience a load > 10 during backup season, but as the server is 
> not used for interactive session, we just accept that.
>
> Met vriendelijke groet,
>
> Micha Kersloot
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> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Andreas Schnederle-Wagner - Futureweb.at" <schnederle AT futureweb 
>> DOT at>
>> To: backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
>> Sent: Friday, February 27, 2015 9:26:18 AM
>> Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Usage of BackupPC in large environment
>> Hello Andrea,
>>
>> we are using BackupPC for ~60 Servers with a total (deduped) Capacity of 6 
>> TB -
>> and no problems so far ...
>>
>>
>>        375 full backups of total size 15200.45GB (prior to pooling and 
>> compression),
>>        758 incr backups of total size 6682.27GB (prior to pooling and 
>> compression).
>>
>>
>> But you definately want a fast Storage for BackupPC ... we got a RAID 5 with
>> about 8 HDDs - and often got very high IO-Load on the Backup Server ...
>>
>>
>> Hope those Infos will help you, bye from Austria
>> Andreas
>>
>>
>>
>> Andreas Schnederle-Wagner
>> Futureweb OG
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>> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>> Von: Andrea Carpani [mailto:andrea.carpani AT dnshosting DOT it]
>> Gesendet: Freitag, 27. Februar 2015 09:15
>> An: backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
>> Betreff: [BackupPC-users] Usage of BackupPC in large environment
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm currently evaluating BackupPC as a backup solution and I have some 
>> questions
>> to begin with.
>>
>> My main concern is about the environment we're going to backup: we have
>> ~100 shared hosting servers.
>> This means that each server has:
>> ~ 400 users
>> ~ 300Gb /home partition
>> ~ 8M files on each server
>>
>> I know the pimary target for BackupPC is laptops and desktops: has anyone 
>> ever
>> tried this software in such environment?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> --
>> .a.c.
>> Andrea Carpani
>> andrea.carpani AT dnshosting DOT it
>> +39 329 722 1309
>>
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Andrea Carpani
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