Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 11:04:29 +0000 From: krad <kraduk@gmail.com> To: Arthur Chance <freebsd@qeng-ho.org> Cc: Frank Bonnet <f.bonnet@esiee.fr>, "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: ZFS based machine to build a backup server ? Message-ID: <AANLkTimDKRjfzY989p%2BcXADUCFGNRv2m91hynfC%2BzdB2@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4CF3867E.8010302@qeng-ho.org> References: <4CF378B9.70007@esiee.fr> <4CF3867E.8010302@qeng-ho.org>
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On 29 November 2010 10:54, Arthur Chance <freebsd@qeng-ho.org> wrote: > On 11/29/10 09:56, Frank Bonnet wrote: > >> Would it be safe to use a FreeBSD + ZFS based machine to build >> a backups server to store sensitive data ? >> >> In a word is FreeBSD + ZFS stable and mature ? >> > > That's a regular theological debate round here, and some people will say > yes, and others an emphatic no. I'm personally happy with ZFS raidz, others > prefer UFS + mirroring + journalling. > > Speaking with far too many years of experience as a sysadmin, no single > backup solution is ever truly adequate. You want off site backups as well as > on site. For the off site backups, take a look at tarsnap: > > http://www.tarsnap.com/ > > -- > "Although the wombat is real and the dragon is not, few know what a > wombat looks like, but everyone knows what a dragon looks like." > > -- Avram Davidson, _Adventures in Unhistory_ > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > It does all come down to risk analysis. In my experience company politics have far to much influence on this than I like.
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