Backups

Mike McGrath mmcgrath at redhat.com
Tue Jun 5 21:40:14 UTC 2007


Nils Breunese wrote:
> Mike McGrath wrote:
>
>   
>> We're starting to get into backup needs that will include a lot of data
>> thats not redundant so backuppc's pooling won't really benefit us that
>> much.
>>     
>
> Ok, fair enough. I thought there was talk of having static content on
> multiple servers, that's where BackupPC's pooling feature could come in
> pretty handy, but I have no idea about what amounts of data we're talking.
>
>   
Yeah but over time thats become a much smaller percentage of our overall 
backup needs.  Our one-off binary files have grown much faster than our 
smaller static content files have.
>> Hopefully we'll be using both tape and disk backups.  Once our new disk
>> tray gets in we'll have to prepare to backup a couple TB of Binary
>> RPMs.  Some of our backups will be going to disk, some will be going to
>> tape.  Additionally it seems that bacula is more efficient at backing
>> things up.
>>     
>
> Efficient in term of what precisely? And what backend are we using with
> BackupPC right now?
>   

In terms of how long it takes to do the backups and how much load it 
requires.  BackupPC is written in perl.

    -Mike




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