From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Oct 16 0:39:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from linuxpower.p00t.net (mke-160-240-116.wi.rr.com [24.160.240.116]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1220337B503 for ; Mon, 16 Oct 2000 00:39:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (trout@localhost) by linuxpower.p00t.net (8.11.0/8.10.2) with ESMTP id e9G7oP802364 for ; Mon, 16 Oct 2000 02:50:25 -0500 Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 02:50:25 -0500 (CDT) From: Tom Duffey To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: User friendly and reliable backup solution Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Dear FreeBSD Users, I know this topic has been thrown around quite a bit but I haven't been able to find quite what I'm looking for in the mailing list archives. Our design company has two FreeBSD 4.1 machines: a web server and a mail server. I do most of the administration remotely while attending school. Although they are very bright, none of the other employees have had much experience with unix-like operating systems. I'm trying to come up with the most user-friendly and reliable backup system possible for these two. In the event of a crash, someone on location will have to fix the hardware and perform the restore. On the hardware end we plan on getting some SCSI tape unit capable of dealing with the full capacities of each machine, about 10gb max each. Can anyone recommend a hardware and software combination that is known to be reliable and easy to use, especially during a restore? Should we build another machine to act as a backup server or use one of the existing servers? I really appreciate the help! Best Regards, Tom Duffey To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message