Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] How much space does Bacula need?

2008-09-04 07:28:07
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] How much space does Bacula need?
From: "John Drescher" <drescherjm AT gmail DOT com>
To: "Alan Brown" <ajb2 AT mssl.ucl.ac DOT uk>
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2008 07:28:01 -0400
>> > Here is what bacula-web says:
>> >
>> > Total clients:           46      Total bytes stored:     17.51 TB
>> > Total files:    4672387         Database size:  20.28 GB
>> >
>>
>> One thing I should have included which is on the lines of what Ryan
>> mentioned about compression. My 20.28GB database compresses to 1.75GB
>
> Do you compress before writing to tape or do you let the tape drive do
> that?
>

I store the catalog on a File (under raid 5) device that is on the
same machine as the director but not the same machine as the the one
that has the database.

John

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