From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 23 10:31:37 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 B91C437B400 for ; Fri, 23 Aug 2002 10:31:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from infinity.aesredfish.net (ns1.aesredfish.net [65.168.0.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16B8943E6E for ; Fri, 23 Aug 2002 10:31:33 -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 g7NHVUD29914; Fri, 23 Aug 2002 13:31:31 -0400 Message-ID: <3D667327.6010603@potentialtech.com> Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 13:38:47 -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: Matt Anderson Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I'm looking for low-cost, 120G backup solution. References: <3D6662D1.6090007@potentialtech.com> <1030121391.18027.1.camel@aec-01.aecinc.com> 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 Matt Anderson wrote: > Well, first thing I noticed is that you spoke about compression a lot > but if you are backing up jpegs you won't really get any compression. Exactly, that's why most of the low-cost solutions I've found won't work, because they can only get the amount of storage we need if they assume 2:1 compression, and we don't get anywhere near that. It's probably something closer to 10:9 compression. > Second, having done a lot of looking for large capacity backup recently, > I don't think you'll find anything adequate that is "low cost". Guess I should have been clearer. I was looking at something in line with the Onstream 120G systems. ~$1000 for the drive, and ~$100/tape. When I first started looking, I couldn'd find anything with near that capacity for under $2000 (most were around $4000) but we found the VXA-2 system which boasts BSD compatibility and runs right about the price-range we were looking for. Thanks for the reply. > Matt Anderson > > On Fri, 2002-08-23 at 09:29, Bill Moran wrote: > >>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 > > > > > -- 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