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> Thanks, but what about weekly full backups? Would that swamp our remote
> 512mbps connections?
You may have to add a few machines at a time to get the initial copies
across, but subsequent runs only copy differences. Full runs do a block
checksum compare so they take longer but not a lot more bandwidth.
> Our big issue here is retention - we have to keep backed up files
> indefinitely, can backuppc maintain a continually growing catalog of
> indefintely retained files?
Backuppc will pool all identical files into a single copy, so the rate
it grows will depend on how fast the files change and differences
between targets. If they don't have a lot in common you might as well
use several cheap servers instead of building one expensive monster - or
just start over when your disks are full.
> Of course, we would probably need to install
> a 64-bit database server....
There's no database - backuppc just uses the filesystem which, after
all, is a reasonable place to keep copies of files.
--
Les Mikesell
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