From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Oct 16 11:15:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [207.154.226.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCDB437B66D for ; Mon, 16 Oct 2000 11:15:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: by elvis.mu.org (Postfix, from userid 1061) id 50BD32B259; Mon, 16 Oct 2000 13:15:25 -0500 (CDT) Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 13:15:25 -0500 From: David Drum To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: User friendly and reliable backup solution Message-ID: <20001016131524.A25516@elvis.mu.org> Mail-Followup-To: David Drum , freebsd-isp@freebsd.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from tduffey@wi.rr.com on Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 02:50:25AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Quoth Tom Duffey: > Can anyone recommend a hardware and software combination that is > known to be reliable and easy to use, especially during a restore? > Should we build another machine to act as a backup server or use one > of the existing servers? I really appreciate the help! Have you evaluated RAID 1 via vinum, and why was it not sufficient? Are you merely trying to make the systems resilient, or do you need archival/disaster-recovery capabilities? Regards, David Drum david@mu.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message