From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 23 9:21:53 2002 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 26B6F37B400 for ; Fri, 23 Aug 2002 09:21:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from infinity.aesredfish.net (ns1.aesredfish.net [65.168.0.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C01B43E6E for ; Fri, 23 Aug 2002 09:21:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com (mhope-dhcp-65-168-1-181.dashfast.com [65.168.1.181]) by infinity.aesredfish.net (8.11.6/8.11.0) with ESMTP id g7NGLmD29467 for ; Fri, 23 Aug 2002 12:21:48 -0400 Message-ID: <3D6662D1.6090007@potentialtech.com> Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 12:29:05 -0400 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.0rc1) Gecko/20020502 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: I'm looking for low-cost, 120G backup solution. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello all. I'm looking for a backup solution that can handle as much as 120G (compressed) per tape. I was pretty excited about OnStream's systems, except that they don't seem to be supported by FreeBSD. Is anyone out there using one of these reliably? The client is currently using DAT tapes, but they've got over 50G worth of data to back up, and it doesn't seem to compress any smaller than 40G. (this is a design firm, a lot of their files are HUGE, photo-quality jpegs) With the DATs, it takes all day of swapping tapes to get a backup. We're looking at adding another 74G of storage to the main fileserver, and I don't want to upgrade their backup system to something that will be overwhelmed in 6 months. Any suggestions? -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message