From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 4 01:03:46 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 54EED5DC for ; Thu, 4 Dec 2014 01:03:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from 10pmail.ess.barracuda.com (10pmail.ess.barracuda.com [64.235.154.212]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 945D5A96 for ; Thu, 4 Dec 2014 01:03:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from modemcable009.181-203-24.mc.videotron.ca (modemcable009.181-203-24.mc.videotron.ca [24.203.181.9]) by mx1408.ess.rzc.cudaops.com (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 04 Dec 2014 01:03:44 +0000 X-BESS-ID: 1417655023-410279-24897-10-1 X-BESS-VER: 2.5.3-r1411251633 X-BESS-Apparent-Source-IP: 24.203.181.9 X-BESS-Outbound-Spam-Score: 0.00 X-BESS-Outbound-Spam-Report: Code version 3.2, rules version 3.2.2.154598 Rule breakdown below pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------- 0.00 HTML_MESSAGE BODY: HTML included in message 0.00 BSF_BESS_OUTBOUND META: BESS Outbound 0.00 HELO_DYNAMIC_DHCP HEADER: Relay HELO'd using suspicious hostname (DHCP) X-BESS-Outbound-Spam-Status: SCORE=0.00 using account:ESS21901 scores of KILL_LEVEL=8.0 tests=HTML_MESSAGE, BSF_BESS_OUTBOUND, HELO_DYNAMIC_DHCP X-BESS-BRTS-Status: 1 Received: from Server02.ad.ezmax.ca (192.168.0.6) by Server02.ad.ezmax.ca (192.168.0.6) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 15.0.913.22; Wed, 3 Dec 2014 19:01:38 -0500 Received: from Server02.ad.ezmax.ca ([::1]) by Server02.ad.ezmax.ca ([::1]) with mapi id 15.00.0913.011; Wed, 3 Dec 2014 19:01:38 -0500 From: Ian Lord To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Backup solution for freeBSD/Symantec Backup exec porting Thread-Topic: Backup solution for freeBSD/Symantec Backup exec porting Thread-Index: AdAPU2lynqG5qtBcS1maXjj78WJW+g== Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2014 00:01:37 +0000 Message-ID: <999d7e80e60f466682c736f275b75788@Server02.ad.ezmax.ca> Accept-Language: en-US, fr-CA Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: x-originating-ip: [192.168.0.99] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.18-1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2014 01:03:46 -0000 Hi, I've been using freebsd since version 4.11 and always dealt with backup sem= i manually with dump, copying files over, database dumps, etc. By the way, not as a home user, but for 8-10 servers used in a SAAS applica= tion. We are looking for something more serious as we are dealing with abou= t 10TB of data for documents, and 600-800 gigs of SQL database. Everything = is redundant, replicated, etc, but we need a serious backup solution. We are thinking of purchasing a DELL Powervault LT2000 device which consist= s of 1 or 2 LTO6 tape drives with 24 slots giving 60TB of data space for re= tention I've read a lot on the subject and many people seem to do dumps on a remote= HD, etc, but to get to 60TB of disk space would cost a lot and would be le= ss reliable then a tape library in my opinion. We need something automated and reliable. Hopefully, with a nice gui to res= tore individual files etc... We already have backup exec 2014 for our windows servers, but they don't ma= ke an agent for freebsd. Symantec has netbackup which supports FreeBSD, but it seems really expensiv= e (A rep will call me, tells all about the price lol) I've read on Bacula and Amanda, and it really doesn't feel like a product m= ature enough (outdated documentation, no clear indication the tape library = would work, etc). Their commercial counterparts are really expensives... I'= m afraid to purchase hardware, new server, etc and end up with nothing work= ing. In the past, we used backup exec to backup freebsd using their legacy backu= p agents in linux compat mode and it was working really well. We tried (wit= hout extensive effort) to make work their linux agent on freebsd without su= ccess. So my questions are: 1- Does anyone have a tape library working with bacula or Amanda ? Doe= s it work well ? (meaning stable, reliable and good performance) 2- Would anyone be willing to try to make backup exec work on freebsd = using linux compat mode ? I would be willing to finance the project up to 5= 00$ perhaps other people reading this could also contribute to have more ma= n hours on this task. I love so much FreeBSD Over Linux, but it's always hard to get support from= vendors... We are even evaluating to switch our fileservers to Centos (whe= re we also dump sql databases and could replicate important data from freeB= SD) to be able to easily back them up using Backup Exec's agent. But this w= ould be my last resort as I don't want to support linux box where everythin= g else in in FreeBSD. Any help/comment would be appreciated. Thanks ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ian Lord MSD Informatique 143 Rue des Fauvettes St-Colomban (Qu=E9bec) J5K 0E2 T=E9l: (514) 776-6734 #201 Sans Frais: 1(877) 776-6734 #201 http://www.msdi.ca/