Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] Have we reached bacula's limits?

2012-01-24 12:02:43
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Have we reached bacula's limits?
From: Marcello Romani <mromani AT ottotecnica DOT com>
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 18:00:10 +0100
Il 24/01/2012 17:43, Xabier Elkano ha scritto:
> El 24/01/12 17:02, Marcello Romani escribió:
>> Il 24/01/2012 12:21, Xabier Elkano ha scritto:
>>
>> [snip]
>>
>>>> I'm just thinking out loud, but I don't see how having a catalog for
>>>> each client can help you scale, since you can't put them on different db
>>>> servers. You'd probably have a higher ROI by upgrading the DBMS hardware
>>>> and/or migrating to postgres and/or throwing some (consultancy) money at
>>>> tuning.
>>>>
>>>> Just my 2 cents.
>>> Why not? If I want I can put each catalog on different db servers, each
>>> catalog has its own db config. But this is not the idea, I want to put
>>> all catalogs on the same db server but trying to keep tables as small as
>>> possible to reduce IOs on db server, because is the server bottleneck
>>> now. I can upgrade my server hardware, putting more memory or cpu, but
>>> my problem is on disks handling these table sizes.
>>>
> May be, I've not explained it very well :-)
> 
> Now, I can't grow my bacula installation without installing another
> director to distribute the clients, because using only one catalog, its
> database is too big and restores are becoming impossibles to do.
> 
> So, I am currently testing two catalogs (with two databases) in same
> director and it is working fine (but, yes implies more stuff to do).
>> For the record:
>>
>> "Currently, Bacula can only handle a single database server"
> 
> I think that this sentence is only explaining that if you have compiled
> bacula to use mysql, you can only use mysql as db server (and not
> postgresql), but you can use as many mysql servers as you want to
> storage your catalogs.
> 

So what is the correct meaning of that sentence ? Only tests will tell :-)

-- 
Marcello Romani

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