Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 22:05:38 +0200 From: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com> To: Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com> Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org, mwe@consol.de, np@bsn.com Subject: Re: file/backup server Message-ID: <200909282005.n8SK5ccc073343@fire.js.berklix.net> In-Reply-To: Your message "Mon, 28 Sep 2009 11:51:57 PDT." <20090928185157.7412A5B2C@mail.bitblocks.com>
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Bakul Shah wrote: > Not sure what is the right group for this kind of query but > perhaps people on this group has had similar need. I'd like > to give freebsd guys a first shot hence a freebsd group. > > I am looking for a vendor who will supply a small > number of fileservers but mainly for backing up a few TB of > data (exact number not yet known). These will be used in > various sites. I am envisioning one or two zfs based system. > One is on all the time and provides some shared storage and > at least nightly backups. The other is used to sync with the > first one and but not used otherwise -- used sort of like a > tape drive (since they don't seem to scale to TB size backups > without spending lots of money). zfs since it will allow me > to grow storage seamlessly and raidz2 ought to be good > enough. Other ideas are possible. If you know of a vendor or > are one, please contact me privately. Please include me in > the cc list in case you wish to reply to the group. > > Thanks! Rod Grimes used to sell custom BSDboxes I recall. Various other people too. probably some are on hardware@ Also see http://www.freebsd.org/commercial/hardware.html For renting servers in Europe eg np@bsn.com &/or mwe@consol.de (bcc'd so they wont drown in follow up :-). &/or http://www.freebsd.org/commercial/isp.html Also http://www.freebsd.org/commercial/commercial.html Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey: BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Mail ASCII plain text not HTML & Base64. http://asciiribbon.org Virused Microsoft PCs cause spam. http://berklix.com/free/
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