From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 6 21:01:59 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A2FB16A4CE; Wed, 6 Apr 2005 21:01:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtpgate.tsgincorporated.com (ns1.tsgincorporated.com [67.66.242.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4E2D43D1F; Wed, 6 Apr 2005 21:01:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from micheal@tsgincorporated.com) Received: from localhost (localhost.tsgincorporated.com [127.0.0.1]) by smtpgate.tsgincorporated.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5222C3CD706; Wed, 6 Apr 2005 16:01:56 -0500 (CDT) Received: from smtpgate.tsgincorporated.com ([127.0.0.1])port 10024) with ESMTP id 57633-04; Wed, 6 Apr 2005 16:01:52 -0500 (CDT) Received: from mail.tsgincorporated.com (lanmail.tsgincorporated.com [67.66.242.29]) by smtpgate.tsgincorporated.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01CF03CD704; Wed, 6 Apr 2005 16:01:52 -0500 (CDT) Received: from micheal (micheal.tsgincorporated.com [67.66.242.77]) by mail.tsgincorporated.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 0E3E4952827; Wed, 6 Apr 2005 16:01:51 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <123901c53aec$259d8420$4df24243@tsgincorporated.com> From: "Micheal Patterson" To: "Justin Bennett" , "FreeBSD Hackers" References: <4251C00E.1050108@z-axis.com> Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2005 15:58:39 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1437 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1441 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at tsgincorporated.com X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 07 Apr 2005 15:40:20 +0000 cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: iSCSI (revisited?) X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2005 21:01:59 -0000 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Justin Bennett" To: "FreeBSD Hackers" Cc: "FreeBSD Questions" Sent: Monday, April 04, 2005 5:30 PM Subject: iSCSI (revisited?) > All, > > I was wondering what people thought of iSCSI and FreeBSD. Is it a viable > option for creating SANs? > > I want to move away from tape backups, and have numerous production > FreeBSD machines that I need to back up data from. > > Any other ideas for a disk to disk backup solution that people have used? > > Thanks, > > Justin > Justin, what I'm currently using is the following for just that: Promise Vtrak 15100 with 15 250gb sata's, connected to a dual channel Adaptec 39160 housed in a Compaq ML 330 running FreeBSD 5.3. The Vtrak has 2 logical arrays assigned, where my other 14 servers (windows and freebsd alike) back up to one or the other arrays. I have one array shared via nfs for the bsd boxes to back up to and the other is samba shared so that windows systems can back up to that one. So far, it's worked well for me. All I need to do now is get the company to realize they still need tape if they want long term storage and then I can chain that to the Promise raid and have it back up to take during the day and still have my backup window in the early morning hours. -- Micheal Patterson Senior Communications Systems Engineer 405-917-0600 Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message.