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11-12-2013, 11:28 PM #1Disabled
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Backup Server Specs
We need to purchase a backup server to backup our shared/reseller customers as well as our VPS node.
What cPU would you recommend? Would you recommend a RAID 10 configuration? Ho much RAM will we need?
We'd like to use this both for R1Soft/Idera and SolusVM's backups.
What partitioning would you recommend? I used R1Soft briefly in the past, but can't remember which directory it uses.
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11-13-2013, 12:17 AM #2Web Hosting Master
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I don't think you need lots of memory.
But a faster disk can be plus point as you may need to write / read lots of data on daily basis.
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11-13-2013, 12:21 AM #3Disabled
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11-13-2013, 01:30 AM #4Web Hosting Master
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I'll recommend going RAID 6 for backup server as RAID 10 will be bit overkill. Also, depending on number of HDD's that you're going to use, you may keep one HDD as global hot spare. Do you know amount of raw space that you're going to need? You can use any quad core CPU which should be just fine.
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RAID 6 has additional protection against block failures and controller errors by the extra parity. In large storage arrays (which is typical in backup servers), it is recommended to have little bit extra protection. There is an article at http://www.zdnet.com/blog/storage/wh...ng-in-2019/805 which is very interesting and works through internal metrics of RAID 5 vs. RAID 6. You shouldn't be concerned if performance is slower as it is anyhow going to be a backup server (vs. being a web or db or virtualization node).
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11-13-2013, 03:57 PM #7
We built a backup server for the same exact purposes and use it for R1Soft and SolusVM backups. We went with just an i3-3220 which in most cases is even overkill with just 8GB ram. We then went with 12 x 3TB drives in Raid-6. So far it has worked out excellently. For backup purposes there is no real need to go with hardware raid.
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11-13-2013, 04:06 PM #9
Ideally that would be perfect, we just went with the specs I mention since its what we stock and wanted to give it more power and resources than it really needed. To give you an idea we have 25+ servers backing up to it daily and the load is usually around .5-1.00
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