From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Oct 16 12:56:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from linuxpower.p00t.net (mke-160-240-116.wi.rr.com [24.160.240.116]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EDC337B66E for ; Mon, 16 Oct 2000 12:56:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (trout@localhost) by linuxpower.p00t.net (8.11.0/8.10.2) with ESMTP id e9GK7D804639; Mon, 16 Oct 2000 15:07:13 -0500 Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 15:07:13 -0500 (CDT) From: Tom Duffey To: David Drum Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: User friendly and reliable backup solution In-Reply-To: <20001016131524.A25516@elvis.mu.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > 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? Yes, and in the future I will be doing exactly this. However, disaster recovery is the most important thing I need to deal with right now. Furthermore, I need the ability to do complete backups on removable media so a fairly recent copy of the systems can be taken off site from time to time. Again, what I'm looking for is reliability and an easy restore process so that if a drive blows up and I'm unable to make the two hour drive to repair the damage, someone who is by no means ignorant, but just hasn't had much experience with FreeBSD can fix the hardware and restore the system completely. Thanks, Tom Duffey To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message