[Bacula-users] Huge Bacula Deployment

[Brad Pinkston]

Bacula Gurus,   1)       I have been put in a position where backups have been setup before me with Bacula.  I am backing up approximately 30 servers and no workstations.  All servers are running Debian.  What would the recommended setup be as far as DB to use and any performance tuning I should try.  I know Bacula can do better than our current 170 KB/sec.  My previous Veritas solution at my old job was doing 170 MB/sec.  I will give details about my setup, but I wanted to get the opinions about everyone’s opinion on an ideal setup first.  I hope I’m not opening Pandora’s Box with that one.   2) We are looking at adding a warm site to out infrastructure.  The backup system I would like to have is:   30 servers at site A backed up to disk with one week retention 10 servers at site B backed up to disk with one week retention Backup servers at site A and B to contain copy of backup from both sites (i.e. after nightly backup mirror A to B and B to A) After site A contains site B backups have it mirror all to tape backup at site C with 3 week retention.   How would I implement this with Bacula, and what would be my restore process if I had to restore from tape?   Thanks, Brad Pinkston