Date: Fri, 13 Mar 1998 12:26:29 -0600 From: Kim Shrier <kim@createtech.com> To: "Jay K." <jk@cais.net> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help w/ SCSI Tape drives/Backup solution Message-ID: <35097A55.1416D8CB@createtech.com> References: <Pine.GSO.3.96.980313121806.16588B-100000@chele.cais.com>
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I don't have any recommendations for tape drives but we use BRU to do our backups. We have one of our FreeBSD machines designated as the backup machine. This machine has a 7 gig drive that holds all the backups (both full and incremental) for 1 week. All the other FreeBSD machines are setup to do their backups, using BRU, and FTP them to the backup machine. A full backup of all our machines combined is a little over 4 gig. This makes the network kind of slow but we schedule the backups between 3 and 5 a.m. to minimise the impact. We then use BRU to backup the backup files to tape. Jay K. wrote: > > Hi there, > > I've got several (15+) FreeBSD machines in production (2.2.2 or higher) > and I need to drop Tape Drives into some of them. Does anyone have any > recommendations for relatively inexpensive SCSI tapes with 4G or higher > capacity? I'm looking for a good balance between price and reliability. > I will be getting 6 or so. > On a related note, does anyone have any experience with Backup-server > setups with FreeBSD? Would I be better off going with something like a > DLT and a backup server? (Are there any network backup programs > available for FreeBSD aside from amanda?) I'm concerned about sending > many gigabytes over our network. Anyone have some experience they could > share in this area? Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks in advance, > > Jay K. > Systems Director > CAIS Internet > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message -- Kim Shrier - kim@createtech.com Director of Development - CreateTech, Inc. voice 214-748-2233 - fax 214-748-3377 www.createtech.com - Custom Internet Solutions. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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