Re: [OT] Building a new backup server

[John R Pierce <pierce@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/5/2013 7:52 AM, m.roth@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> I don't think that's going to happen. First, we have an in-house developed
> backup system that works just fine. Second, we*are*  backup up something
> over a hundred servers and workstations to a few backup servers. Third, we
> are talking, in some cases, of terabytes....

my backuppc server is doing a couple dozen VM's and physical machines, 
linux+solaris+AIX+WindowsServer, I have backups going back to MARCH, and 
the whole pool is just a few terabytes, with an effective compression of 
like 50:1 due to the amount of duplication in those backups.   the 
database server machines run a pre-backup script that either does a 
database dump, or a freeze (for instance, postgresql has 
pg_start_backup()), then backup whats right, and run a post-backup 
script (pg_stop_backup())

its worked remarkably well for me, using a fraction of the disk space 
I'd planned for (both primary and mirror backup servers have room for 36 
3.5" SAS drives, although they are only stuffed with 20x3TB in raid6+0 
configurations)




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john r pierce                                      37N 122W
somewhere on the middle of the left coast

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