From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 22 14:43:42 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 533ED16A41F for ; Thu, 22 Sep 2005 14:43:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from ezekiel.daleco.biz (southernuniform.com [66.76.92.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E04BE43D45 for ; Thu, 22 Sep 2005 14:43:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from [192.168.2.2] ([69.27.149.254]) by ezekiel.daleco.biz (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j8MEgcYt060939 for ; Thu, 22 Sep 2005 09:43:05 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Message-ID: <4332C2D1.8020200@daleco.biz> Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 09:42:25 -0500 From: Kevin Kinsey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050823 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20050922120510.9B6AC186800@mgedv.at> In-Reply-To: <20050922120510.9B6AC186800@mgedv.at> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Challenge: LTO2 autoloader with freebsd?! X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 14:43:42 -0000 mdff wrote: >we are planning for a central backup solution. >this will be a hp proliant dl380 with a scsi- >attached autoloader 1/8 from HP with an integrated >LTO2 drive. > >is it possible to setup backup mechanisms, that >load 1 tape per day into the drive and run the >backup automatically? > > Hmm, running a backup automatically is easy. When you say "mechanism", though, you mean some_thing_, instead of some_one_, inserts the tape each day. I dunno about that. I would assume the hardware vendor might give me some help, but you never can tell with the big boys these days. There's no software with the device? >is there any software like veritas that could >be used under freebsd (no graphics preferred)? > > > Well: [kadmin@archangel][~/scripts] cd /usr/ports && make search key="backup" | grep Port: | wc -l 32 --- so there's about 32 programs in the Ports Collection that probably have to do with backups. That's not counting the usual suspects on every 'Nix-like system, such as tar, pax, dump, cpio and friends... in particular, I *think* the "like veritas" solutions would include bacula (in ports) and AMANDA (I *don't* think it's in ports, check the University of Maryland/Google, etc.). See also the backup chapter in the FreeBSD Handbook. Aside from the auto-loading hardware, this is pretty basic stuff. HTH, Kevin Kinsey