From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Dec 11 19:47:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from thud.tbe.net (thud.tbe.net [209.123.109.174]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9031337B416 for ; Tue, 11 Dec 2001 19:47:14 -0800 (PST) Received: by thud.tbe.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id A0D4D1C942E; Tue, 11 Dec 2001 22:44:36 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by thud.tbe.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DBC4DCE83; Tue, 11 Dec 2001 22:44:36 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 22:44:36 -0500 (EST) From: "Gary D. Margiotta" To: Andrew Reid Cc: francisv@dagupan.com, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Backup solutions In-Reply-To: <20011212141130.A1618@aviion.alfred.cx> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I'll second the Amanda suggestion. It takes a little practice and determination, but once it's set up it runs quite beautifully. We've got a mix of 25+ Sun/FreeBSD servers backing up to a single FreeBSD box with a DDS-4 (great compression), and it never complains. We've even gotten it working with a Sun StorEdge L1000 using the loader mechanism, and it's wonderful compared to the $10k+ Veritas solution our vendor wanted... ;) -Gary "Complexity breeds bugs. Bugs prevent adoption, lack of adoption results in death. Death not good." On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, Andrew Reid wrote: > On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 11:38:05AM +0800, francisv@dagupan.com wrote: > > > I'm shopping for ideas regarding backup solutions, anything in mind? I'd > > like to backup 2-5 FreeBSD servers to one tape server. I've looked at Amanda > > but it too complicated to setup. I've also tried flexbackup but then it > > lacks the automation of Amanda. > > Try persevering with Amanda -- it's quite nice once you know what > you're doing with it. > > - andrew > > -- > Andrew J. Reid "Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem > andrew.reid@plug.cx mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum immane > +61 401 946 813 mittam" > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message