Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2014 00:01:37 +0000 From: Ian Lord <lordi@msdi.ca> To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Backup solution for freeBSD/Symantec Backup exec porting Message-ID: <999d7e80e60f466682c736f275b75788@Server02.ad.ezmax.ca>
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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all about the price lol) I've read on Bacula and Amanda, and it really doesn't feel like a product m= ature enough (outdated documentation, no clear indication the tape library = would work, etc).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/
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