dlloyd Posted September 22, 2005 Report Share Posted September 22, 2005 I think that Retrospect is a great product and I have experienced significant ROI throughout the 10 years I have used it at a couple of Enterprise environments. Administration of multiple servers both locally and across the WAN has been difficult. One thought I have is to have a front-end parent Retrospect server that primarily manages backup accounts and directs processes or tasks to other child Retrospect servers. As an example I have 4 Retrospect servers at headquarters each running in proactive mode. At 8 simultaneous threads per server (my experience as been 6 threads without problems) I have in theory 32 simultaneous threads available to use, but if 1 of the servers is using all 6-8 threads then other systems get placed in line to backup on that server when I have many available threads on another server. So in a sense load balanced backups. This is not easy to develop I'm sure and Retrospect has come a long way , but just my perspective on gaining productivity. dlloyd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
natew Posted September 26, 2005 Report Share Posted September 26, 2005 Hi This is an interesting request. Would you consider your site to be a small/ medium business or are you closer to an enterprise level? Thanks nate Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ricwash Posted September 26, 2005 Report Share Posted September 26, 2005 Sounds similiar to my request on the MacOS side of things... Multiple Retrospect Servers - Laundry List Request #32459 - 10/19/03 11:21 AM Still waiting...... -ric Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlloyd Posted September 27, 2005 Author Report Share Posted September 27, 2005 I would say we are between medium and Enterprise. We are using Retrospect to backup about 60% of our computers or about 1000 systems, across 5 WAN locations. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlloyd Posted September 27, 2005 Author Report Share Posted September 27, 2005 I agree, regardless of platform this would be beneficial. About 25% of our computer population are Macintosh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ricwash Posted February 6, 2006 Report Share Posted February 6, 2006 (BUMP) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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