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Subject: Re: Backups Hardwares for FreeBSD
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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