From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 14 21:19:32 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAC3A16A420 for ; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 21:19:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from beowulf@gmail.com) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.198]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4B4743D45 for ; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 21:19:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from beowulf@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 71so1186228wra for ; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 13:19:31 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=ABQ0xzxKckEZrcmPcRVzKTo/vsZPDqyticl6eOalzNz+0Xu7JGclW38JzUnd7Ikj/nSv5E7BxFL2lR3nFoW7gs5DU36WWsnVt52kNX7mu0K2IKwgrKCc/jcakgZNqo6S/pwGicHGhBMnIw+6aulDnZMQEB1SEsbkzL7ZKnlTuNw= Received: by 10.54.96.4 with SMTP id t4mr3330169wrb; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 13:19:31 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.54.102.16 with HTTP; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 13:19:31 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <20f8f4550602141319s1e9867c9nf3231fdc8b518919@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 16:19:31 -0500 From: j m g To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20060214092426.M60946@arbitor.digitalfreaks.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <43F1E250.1070705@pixelhammer.com> <20060214092426.M60946@arbitor.digitalfreaks.org> Subject: Re: NAS advice? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 21:19:32 -0000 Has anyone used the freenas.org distro? On what equipment? Thanks. On 2/14/06, Brian A. Seklecki wrote: > On Tue, 14 Feb 2006, DAve wrote: > > > (I am cross posting to FreeBSD questions and Bacula Users, I will not b= e > > cross posting replies) > > > > I've been crying for four years that we needed a decent backup system a= nd I > > always got put off. "It's on order", "can you resubmit an updated equip= ment > > list". Yea, checks in the mail. > > > > So yesterday I am told that we have some equipment we got in another de= al and > > I can have it to backup my NOC. I plan to run Bacula which I already ha= ve on > > some individual machines. I want to have Bacula clients on all my machi= nes > > talking to a single machine running the Bacula director, hopefully usin= g the > > NAS machines for storage. > > > > This is the equipment they threw at me, it is old, but amazingly, unuse= d. > > > > One Dell Poweredge 750, 2.8ghz CPU, 1gb ram, 2 500gb SATA Maxtor > > drives(yuk!), CERC SATA controller. > > Be very careful here. I run OpenBSD with CMU RAIDFrame RAID-1 mirrors an= d > FreeBSD 5.3 with GEOM/GMirror RAID-1 on this platform for embeded devices= . > It's rock-solid, except Dell phased the 750 for the 850 and went from ICH= 6 > to ICH7 Intel Chipsets? Also, they're now OEM'ing Broadcom bge(4) based > NICs instead of Intel em(4), so consider yourself lucky in a sense >:}. > The point is that the 850 will only run the very latest FreeBSD 6.1-BETA1 > snapshots contain support for the newer chips. > > ~lava > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.o= rg" > -- -jmg -sapere aude