Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 12:03:37 -0800 (AKDT) From: Mike Tibor <tibor@tibor.org> To: Paulo Fragoso <paulo@nlink.com.br> Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Backups Hardwares for FreeBSD Message-ID: <20071023115757.B15895@alpha.tibor.org> In-Reply-To: <471E2290.9040704@nlink.com.br> References: <471E2290.9040704@nlink.com.br>
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On Tue, 23 Oct 2007, Paulo Fragoso wrote: > Hi, > > We have a FreeBSD mail server with 1TB RAID 6 using Areca ARC-1220 controler, > all works fine. > > Today our backups are made on DDS-4 tapes, they are very slow and too small, > this is our problem. What is a good (modern) alternative to DDS-4 working on > FreeBSD? At another job I used a Sony AIT-2 drive to back up a number of BSD/OS and FreeBSD boxes, and it was fine. At the job I'm in now I get to play with an ADIC Scalar I2000 tape library with LTO2 drives. LTO2 is pretty nice, but it's starting to get a little expensive. LTO3 or 4 would be great if you can afford it. I suppose it depends greatly on the budget you have available. If you want to get away from tape, you could build up a disk-based backup server with a number of large SATA drives and script something using rsync. Mike
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