From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Dec 13 11:28:11 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B20F37B401 for ; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 11:28:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from testmail.wolves.k12.mo.us (testmail.wolves.k12.mo.us [207.160.214.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5CFC43EC2 for ; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 11:28:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us) Received: by testmail.wolves.k12.mo.us (Postfix, from userid 1001) id C25FFCCC9; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 13:28:03 -0600 (CST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by testmail.wolves.k12.mo.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDE48CCC8; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 13:28:03 -0600 (CST) Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 13:28:03 -0600 (CST) From: Chris Dillon To: Simon Cc: Dan Nelson , "freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.org" Subject: Re: network backup In-Reply-To: <20021213180527.6B64543EA9@mx1.FreeBSD.org> Message-ID: <20021213130840.Q13951-100000@duey.wolves.k12.mo.us> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Simon wrote: > I don't *just* want to make a backup. I want to back it up using an > efficient method because I'm dealing with terabytes of data. I can't > just back so much data daily over network and compress it. I have to > do incremental backups and compression on the fly is a must to save > disk space. It sounds like you're really looking for a commercial tool like Veritas NetBackup. The server part of NetBackup won't run on FreeBSD (maybe the Linux version would run under the Linuxulator), but they do have a FreeBSD-native backup agent. The server can run on many differerent Unix platforms, as well as Windows and Linux. I'm not sure which other commercial backup tools out there have FreeBSD-native backup agents, but I know there are at least a couple of others that do. -- Chris Dillon - cdillon(at)wolves.k12.mo.us FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS on the planet - Available for IA32 (Intel x86) and Alpha architectures - IA64, PowerPC, UltraSPARC, ARM, and S/390 under development - http://www.freebsd.org No trees were harmed in the composition of this message, although some electrons were mildly inconvenienced. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message