From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 29 0:27: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.alpha.net.au (mail2.alpha.net.au [203.41.44.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C88037B56B for ; Sat, 29 Apr 2000 00:26:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dannyh@idx.com.au) Received: from freebsd.freebsd.org (surry-pool-152.alpha.net.au [203.41.44.152] (may be forged)) by mail.alpha.net.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id RAA17825; Sat, 29 Apr 2000 17:24:49 +1000 From: Danny To: "Richard Grace" , "'Fook Sheng Chan'" , Subject: RE: a good backup software and hardware Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 17:30:51 +1000 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.21] Content-Type: text/plain References: <000801bfb0d0$90ee3680$d9d124cb@itworks.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00043017312405.00438@freebsd.freebsd.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, Checkout NetMax from www.netmax.com I believe it is very good, easy to use. On Fri, 28 Apr 2000, Richard Grace wrote: > > 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 -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message