[ale] Bacula backup gathering?

[Alex Carver]

On 2016-02-16 11:11, Derek Atkins wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, February 16, 2016 1:48 pm, DJ-Pfulio wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I wonder how much RAM/CPU would be required for this?  I wonder if I
>>> could
>>> use a low-power ARM board?
>>
>> ARM has an I/O limitation which makes it a poor choice for almost any disk
>> or
>> network I/O.  You can use a Pentium G3258 (MB+CPU around $100) and have an
>> amazing NAS box, however. 35W typical power use.  Have 6 drives in mine
>> now and
> 
> Sorry, I think I was less than clear in my use case.  I already have a
> FreeNAS box with lots of storage (16TB usable).  For my proposed ARM
> device the idea was it purely to be a go-between, running rdiff-backup to
> pull backups from my servers and then write them out to the NAS through an
> encfs/NFS link.
> 
> So I'm not depending on an ARM board to do lots of Disk I/O, only CPU and
> Network I/O.
> 
> My Wandboards certainly have GigE; I haven't tested to see if it can
> saturate that link.  But I've got one as a mythtv backend and it seems to
> do fine :)   And it uses significantly less that 35W  :)


I want to know how well this works.  That could be a solution for my
desire to have a fanless myth backend.