Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula to the Cloud

On 3/11/2010 4:31 PM, Peter Zenge wrote:
> Following up on my own post, I had a little free time the other day and
> decided to investigate whether this was feasible. Setting up the
> necessary services on Amazon was trivial, including access control and
> block storage. I tried s3fs first, and it worked, but it felt like there
> was way too much i/o going on for that kind of data (which is pretty
> much what I expected). Then I tried putting my bacula-sd on an EC2 node,
> writing to files on EBS, and it worked great (spooling first to the
> “local” drive on EC2). Throughput however was somewhat less than I was
> hoping for, approx. 25% of what I get locally to spool and then to tape.
> However, I found that there was NO performance penalty for running two
> jobs concurrently. I didn’t try larger numbers, but my guess is you can
> run a large number of concurrent jobs to get a pretty good effective
> throughput, assuming you have lots of clients with similar data sizes.

Would you care to add the steps to the wiki?  Then post the URL here please?

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Dan Langille - http://langille.org/

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