From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 27 22:12: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from iserver.itworks.com.au (iserver.itworks.com.au [203.32.61.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BAA5137B869 for ; Thu, 27 Apr 2000 22:12:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rgrace@itworks.com.au) Received: (qmail 98834 invoked from network); 28 Apr 2000 05:12:03 -0000 Received: from maybe.itworks.com.au (203.36.209.235) by iserver.itworks.com.au with SMTP; 28 Apr 2000 05:12:03 -0000 Received: (qmail 81748 invoked from network); 28 Apr 2000 05:12:03 -0000 Received: from dhcp8.itworks.com.au (HELO paranoia) (203.36.209.217) by maybe.itworks.com.au with SMTP; 28 Apr 2000 05:12:03 -0000 From: "Richard Grace" To: "'Fook Sheng Chan'" , Subject: RE: a good backup software and hardware Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 15:14:00 +1000 Message-ID: <000801bfb0d0$90ee3680$d9d124cb@itworks.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 In-Reply-To: <20000428040455.25730.qmail@web1701.mail.yahoo.com> Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I am proposing a backup system for about 40 FreeBSD > Web servers, and as I previously have little experice > with backup for FreeBSD, I need your help. > > Pls advice me on what hardware to use if i want auto > tape load functionality, and what software (comm or > free). I'm not too sure about hardware, depending on the amount of content to be backed up, you could probably get it all on a few DLT or AIT type tapes in a small changer. Check the tape write speeds vs. the amount of data to back up in the available time you have to determine how many tape drives you will need. Amanda (/usr/ports/misc/amanda24, http://www.amanda.org/) is a fantastic free backup utility, which uses either dump (best) or gnu tar to back up filesystems and has support for tape changers. See the list of supported hardware and the mailing list archives before buying hardware. It works in client-server config with one or more tape drives and will work perfectly across firewalls. The amanda-users mailing list provides excellent support. It is also possible to restore your backups using just restore or gnu tar which is a bonus if your backup server dies also... some other backup utilities use proprietary formats which are much harder to deal with. Richard Grace. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message