From: Ryan N. <nov...@um...> - 2008-10-14 20:20:36
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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. - -- ---- _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ |Y#| | | |\/| | \ |\ | | |Ryan Novosielski - Systems Programmer II |$&| |__| | | |__/ | \| _| |nov...@um... - 973/972.0922 (2-0922) \__/ Univ. of Med. and Dent.|IST/AST - NJMS Medical Science Bldg - C630 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFI9P77mb+gadEcsb4RAicoAKCE+OpIOkgSVaxLhClGOO9uNmMxVgCdHPBA UrwK0pdooMm4WBBhxFxbneM= =EJZm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- |