Re: Storage server
Am Samstag, 8. September 2012 schrieb Veljko:
> Well, it did sound a little to complex and that is why I posted to this
> list, hoping to hear some other opinions.
>
> 1. This machine will be used for
> a) backup (backup server for several dedicated (mainly) web servers).
> It will contain incremental backups, so only first running will take
> a lot of time, rsnapshot will latter download only changed/added files
> and will run from cron every day. Files that will be added later are
> around 1-10 MB in size. I expect ~20 GB daily, but that number can
> grow. Some files fill be deleted, other will be added.
> Dedicated servers that will be backed up are ~500GB in size.
> b) monitoring (Icinga or Zabbix) of dedicated servers.
> c) file sharing for employees (mainly small text files). I don't
> expect this to be resource hog.
> d) Since there is enough space (for now), and machine have four cores
> and 4GB RAM (that can be easily increased), I figured I can use it
> for test virtual machines. I usually work with 300MB virtual machines
> and no intensive load. Just testing some software.
Could it be that you intend to provide hosted monitoring, backup and
fileservices for an customer and while at it use the same machine for
testing own stuff?
If so: Don´t.
Thats at least my advice. (In addition to what I wrote already.)
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