On Monday 14 January 2002 04:13 pm, you wrote: > On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, R. Bradley Tilley wrote: > >I have about 60 MS clients, and currently, they are all mounted by > > smbclient through the AMANDA backup server. I have a few other Linux > > machines that are backed up too, and I was wondering if it would be > > better to spread these SAMBA mounts out across 2 or 3 other Linux > > machines. > > > >So, instead of mounting 60 MS clients on the Amanda server, spread the 60 > > out across 3 Linux machines. Or does it matter? Any advice is > > appreciated.
What I've seen is the change in the response time. But if your response time is good enough, leave it alone. F.ex. if you ran some big db which hauled all the data back and forth on all pc's you'd end up with heave network load. On the other hand if load is light you would not see any difference. Also, I would build a bigger server before I spread it over several machines. Use minimum 100MB network with switches rather than hubs. I have fourty machines running a stupid DOS db app. It has 115 files open per user! (I'm having it redone) We have no problem with access. My smaller server is a dual 700MHz PIII Coppermine with a mere 256MB RAM. It's feeding this old DOS db for all just fine. (It used to be fed OK by a single 600MHz with 256MB running NT.) Besides, how would you solve three servers feeding the same data? Clusters would probably be the only practical way to go. Steve -- Steve Szmidt V.P. Information Video Group Distributors, Inc.
