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I'd like to find out what kind of hardware configurations people are
using for their director. I plan to be backing up 50 or more clients
with ~250G of data each on a dedicated director with 2G RAM and a
120G SATA drive. I had an issue one night where the director shut
down with an out of memory error after the backup jobs started, with
only 20 clients. I've since backed off the number of clients and am
adding them back in more slowly, as well as distributing the startup
times so they don't all start at once. But I'd like to find out if
people think my hardware is adequate for the task and it would be
interesting to know what others are using.

(\_/)
(o,o)
()_() Joseph Wright
" "

Dell PowerEdge 2950 w/ PERC5 SAS -- RAID-1 Root OS (2x36gb SAS) and
RAID5 Storage (3x 74gig w/ 1 hot standby)).

Dual quad-cores and 32gb RAM available if your DB platform can scale it
(PostgreSQL + FreeBSD)

~BAS

On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 10:12 -0700, Joseph Wright wrote:
I'd like to find out what kind of hardware configurations people are
using for their director. I plan to be backing up 50 or more clients
with ~250G of data each on a dedicated director with 2G RAM and a
120G SATA drive. I had an issue one night where the director shut
down with an out of memory error after the backup jobs started, with
only 20 clients. I've since backed off the number of clients and am
adding them back in more slowly, as well as distributing the startup
times so they don't all start at once. But I'd like to find out if
people think my hardware is adequate for the task and it would be
interesting to know what others are using.

(\_/)
(o,o)
()_() Joseph Wright
" "



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Ok, I feel small. How many clients are you backing up with this
configuration?

(\_/)
(o,o)
()_() Joseph Wright
" "

On Jun 5, 2007, at 12:33 PM, Brian A. Seklecki wrote:

Dell PowerEdge 2950 w/ PERC5 SAS -- RAID-1 Root OS (2x36gb SAS) and
RAID5 Storage (3x 74gig w/ 1 hot standby)).

Dual quad-cores and 32gb RAM available if your DB platform can
scale it
(PostgreSQL + FreeBSD)

~BAS

On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 10:12 -0700, Joseph Wright wrote:
I'd like to find out what kind of hardware configurations people are
using for their director. I plan to be backing up 50 or more clients
with ~250G of data each on a dedicated director with 2G RAM and a
120G SATA drive. I had an issue one night where the director shut
down with an out of memory error after the backup jobs started, with
only 20 clients. I've since backed off the number of clients and am
adding them back in more slowly, as well as distributing the startup
times so they don't all start at once. But I'd like to find out if
people think my hardware is adequate for the task and it would be
interesting to know what others are using.

(\_/)
(o,o)
()_() Joseph Wright
" "



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I'm using a Sun UE450 with 3x296MHz and 896MB of RAM. However, the
maximum simultaneous number of backups I'm doing is 8, and probably my
total aggregate amount of data is less than 100GB for all of the systems
together.

There was some information on the list relatively recently about
optimizing MySQL memory usage, or perhaps making it act somewhat
differently to running out of memory.

AFAIK, as well, newer versions of bacula are slated to handle this
problem better as well. I personally would be somewhat surprised if 2G
of RAM on a dedicated machine were too little. I've never tried watching
my machine while backups were running, but it seems to me Bacula is
fairly lightweight most of the time.

Joseph Wright wrote:
I'd like to find out what kind of hardware configurations people are
using for their director. I plan to be backing up 50 or more clients
with ~250G of data each on a dedicated director with 2G RAM and a
120G SATA drive. I had an issue one night where the director shut
down with an out of memory error after the backup jobs started, with
only 20 clients. I've since backed off the number of clients and am
adding them back in more slowly, as well as distributing the startup
times so they don't all start at once. But I'd like to find out if
people think my hardware is adequate for the task and it would be
interesting to know what others are using.

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