Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] director Server Selection for 225 machines

2008-10-14 16:24:14
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] director Server Selection for 225 machines
From: Ryan Novosielski <novosirj AT umdnj DOT edu>
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:20:11 -0400
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mehma sarja wrote:
> AWESOME: Total newbie. Great software! I just came up with an alternate
> to "it comes in the night..." -  "Works great, less filling"
> 
> VERSIONS: On FreeBSD 7.0, installed bacula 2.2.5 and trying to veer away
> from Networker.
> 
> 225 CLIENTS: About 100 of my users are on Linux and 100 on OS X with a
> couple of dozen on XP Pro. 
> 
> DATA SIZE:  Current tape and on-disk storage is around 20 TB
> compressed. We perform monthly fulls and incrementals every other day.
> 
> WHERE WILL THEY LIVE:  director and index database will be on one server
> and sd will live on a Solaris zfs SAN.
> 
> QUESTION:  The question is how big of a director server do I need to
> perform all on-disk backups (monthly fulls and incrementals every other
> day)? I have the option to put it on a low-end x86 server with a 2 GB
> RAM or on a Sun x4150 with 4 GB RAM. How much cpu and memory resources
> does dir take up? 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Yudhvir

It's quite possible that the number of files, at least from an index
point of view, matter more than the total filespace when determining CPU
utilization.

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