From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 28 20:03:48 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A71A1065792 for ; Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:03:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhs@berklix.com) Received: from tower.berklix.org (tower.berklix.org [83.236.223.114]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACAD28FC0A for ; Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:03:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from park.js.berklix.net (p549A5ACB.dip.t-dialin.net [84.154.90.203]) (authenticated bits=0) by tower.berklix.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id n8SK3Rkg056668; Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:03:28 GMT (envelope-from jhs@berklix.com) Received: from fire.js.berklix.net (fire.js.berklix.net [192.168.91.41]) by park.js.berklix.net (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n8SK3HjU006637; Mon, 28 Sep 2009 22:03:17 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from jhs@berklix.com) Received: from fire.js.berklix.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fire.js.berklix.net (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n8SK5ccc073343; Mon, 28 Sep 2009 22:05:43 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from jhs@fire.js.berklix.net) Message-Id: <200909282005.n8SK5ccc073343@fire.js.berklix.net> To: Bakul Shah From: "Julian H. Stacey" Organization: http://www.berklix.com BSD Unix Linux Consultancy, Munich Germany User-agent: EXMH on FreeBSD http://www.berklix.com/free/ X-URL: http://www.berklix.com In-reply-to: Your message "Mon, 28 Sep 2009 11:51:57 PDT." <20090928185157.7412A5B2C@mail.bitblocks.com> Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 22:05:38 +0200 Sender: jhs@berklix.com Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org, mwe@consol.de, np@bsn.com Subject: Re: file/backup server X-BeenThere: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Internet Services Providers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:03:48 -0000 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/