From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 16 23:28:31 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B019016A41F for ; Wed, 16 Nov 2005 23:28:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mike@lanline.com) Received: from mail.lanline.com (mail.lanline.com [216.187.0.22]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B4AF43D46 for ; Wed, 16 Nov 2005 23:28:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mike@lanline.com) Received: from localhost (mike@localhost) by mail.lanline.com (8.11.6/8.11.2) with ESMTP id jAGNSUv02858 for ; Wed, 16 Nov 2005 18:28:30 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 18:28:30 -0500 (EST) From: To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Backup solutions X-BeenThere: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Internet Services Providers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 23:28:31 -0000 Hi all, I'm looking into several backup options for my site. We have a mixed (BSDI/FreeBSD/Linux) environment. We recently got a 2TB server and I was wondering what the general consensus was on backups. I was either considering writing some custom scripts to just tar, zip, and dump data to the remote file system or possibly using bacula. Amanda is out, because I'm not really interested in pushing the stuff to tape. So, I'm pretty much down to bacula and the standard unix tools. Bacula looks cool, but it seems like it maybe unnecessarily complicated and bulky (btw, i also do have a few w2k servers that can be backed using bacula's client :( ). Anyone with a similar situation or experience with bacula? Thanks in advance. -Mike