On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 6:17 AM, Tim Bell <tim.bell AT cern DOT ch> wrote:
>
> What are the experiences of Bacula's scalability limits as the number of
> files per server increase ? We are looking at backing up 1000+ clients
> with millions of files in total.  I would like to understand if this is
> feasible and how many servers we would need:

Size wise:
http://www.bacula.org/en/rel-manual/Catalog_Maintenance.html#SECTION0024150000000000000000


>
> Specifically,
>
> - What are the recommended largest number of files in the catalog for
> each bacula instance ?
> - What database choice is the best for large numbers of files in the
> catalog ?
> - Do multiple instances of bacula on a single server make sense to
> improve scalability ?

For your scale I'll let others answer above. There was a link that
showed usage for some big backups but I can't remember where it was
at.

Lucas

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