Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 21:26:42 -0700 From: Edu Carneiro <mustaxe@gmail.com> To: Murray Stokely <murray@stokely.org> Cc: doc@freebsd.org, Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Backup Basics Message-ID: <986a34160908172126k4fa4c590n7c7279409d2a02f5@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <2a7894eb0908161446j6ea4db1an6b9425923966e0e4@mail.gmail.com> References: <986a34160908161107g6bbb1d8bj94e6ad4d9b01f2e5@mail.gmail.com> <2a7894eb0908161424w5c2d49c0m8017325a53eb66db@mail.gmail.com> <4A887C2C.6010608@freebsd.org> <2a7894eb0908161446j6ea4db1an6b9425923966e0e4@mail.gmail.com>
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Thanks for the comments and I agree that there should be a mention of all available backup methods such as cloud services; however, as far as giving sponsorship to selected services then that's a business decision. But such services only apply to certain people. In my case, I'm not using RAID and am going to implement a backup to an external storage and according to the docs, the suggestion is the dump/tar combo. It's still a valid method but since the reference is from almost 20 years ago, I was checking if there were any updated suggestions/ports. Or even to know what FreeBSD uses internally. Regards, Edu On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 2:46 PM, Murray Stokely <murray@stokely.org> wrote: > A fair point, and in that case perhaps a short paragraph introducing > the reader to the class of cloud based online backup systems as a > viable alternative to tape backup solutions in 2009, rather than > listing any specific services. A final sentence could then invite the > reader to peruse google or the commercial vendors page for specific > services. > > - Murray > > On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 2:37 PM, Colin Percival<cperciva@freebsd.org> > wrote: > > Murray Stokely wrote: > >> I'd really like to see a new section here about commercial cloud based > >> backup offerings, including TarSnap as the most FreeBSD-friendly > >> variety, but also including some of the other services built on AWS or > >> other cloud services that can be used with FreeBSD. > > > > Thanks for the plug. :-) > > > > There are a couple of companies listed under > http://www.freebsd.org/commercial/ > > as providing backup services (www.ahsay.com, www.exavault.com) but I > don't see > > anything special about them aside from the fact that they presumably > submitted > > PRs asking to be added -- to be honest, I'm not entirely certain why > there is a > > "Commercial Vendors" page on the FreeBSD website at all when google does > a much > > better job of finding vendors. > > > > While I'm always eager to have more people hear about tarsnap, I think > putting > > any sort of list of vendors into the handbook would just end up as a huge > mess > > unless there's a very clear policy about which companies get listed -- > and I > > really can't imagine how to draw up such a policy. > > > > -- > > Colin Percival > > Security Officer, FreeBSD | freebsd.org | The power to serve > > Founder / author, Tarsnap | tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly > paranoid > > >
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