benfeea1 Posted March 21, 2004 Report Share Posted March 21, 2004 I have over 200 Mac clients I backup with 2 servers. What is everyone else doing. These are important things to know if we want to find out Retrospect's real capabilities. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hchristle Posted April 19, 2004 Report Share Posted April 19, 2004 I backup 180 Windows clients daily, on 3 servers. The best server, DLT1 autoloader, 3GHZ Server with 2 GB RAM backups 100 units. 2 VXA autoloaders and smaller servers backup 80 units. --henry christle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scalman Posted April 19, 2004 Report Share Posted April 19, 2004 I am currently backing up 7 Servers(2 NT, 2 Win2k, 1 Redhat, 1 OSX), 38 workstations that are a mix of Win2K, Win98, OS9, & OSX. I am using a single processor P4 1.5 Ghz machine with an adaptec Ultra 160 card connected to a Qualstar library with a single AIT2 drive. A full recycle backup is about 77GB and takes 22 Hours. I need to speed this up because I am most likely adding more machines. Any suggestions on how I can do this? Will going to Gigabit ethernet make a difference? Scott Calman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benfeea1 Posted April 22, 2004 Author Report Share Posted April 22, 2004 hchristle, Are you using proactive? When my proactive backups start the interface is unusable. How about you? My older server lets me timbuktu in but it is slow. The new server won't even let me timbuktu in when it is running. My setup: Dual 733 MHz PII. 2 GB RAM 120 Mac clients Backing up to a 4TB Fiber RAID Proactive Backups using three execution units. Quad 2.8 GHz Xeon 2 GB RAM 120 Mac clients Backing up to a 10TB Fiber RAID Proactive Backups using three execution units. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awnews Posted April 23, 2004 Report Share Posted April 23, 2004 Quote: Will going to Gigabit ethernet make a difference? Scott Calman I recently changed a network that was FastE switched to GigE switched and upgraded to GigE NICs. I looked at some recent backups over the network (for a PC running RP locally *to* a harddrive on a "server" PC) and compared the before and after times. In a typical case, a backup of similar amounts of data would drop from an hour to 45min, a 25% improvement but not anywhere near a 10x, suggesting the PCs [proc, drives, software, etc.] were the biggest limiting factors. And, at least for overnight backups, not any help (one hour, two hours, three hours... whatever). I suppose this could be of some help with a lot of backups & machines, esp. during the day, but I won't be in any hurry (or $) to do it elsewhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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