From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 24 15:58:09 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF78D16A400 for ; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 15:58:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chriskot@quietwind.net) Received: from creto.quietwind.net (creto.quietwind.net [71.39.149.34]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83F7A13C455 for ; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 15:58:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chriskot@quietwind.net) Received: from creto.quietwind.net (localhost.quietwind.net [127.0.0.1]) by creto.quietwind.net (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l3OFr6bZ013185; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 09:53:06 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from chriskot@quietwind.net) Received: (from chrisk@localhost) by creto.quietwind.net (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id l3OFr0v5013184; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 09:53:00 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from chriskot@quietwind.net) X-Authentication-Warning: creto.quietwind.net: chrisk set sender to chriskot@quietwind.net using -f From: Chris Kottaridis To: Olivier Nicole In-Reply-To: <200704240508.l3O58JmQ005942@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> References: <879633.68756.qm@web58109.mail.re3.yahoo.com> <1177390672.677.48.camel@creto.quietwind.net> <200704240508.l3O58JmQ005942@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 09:53:00 -0600 Message-Id: <1177429980.677.67.camel@creto.quietwind.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.3 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Backup media choices for FreeBSD servers X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: chriskot@quietwind.net List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 15:58:10 -0000 It's true, but amanda allows for a holding disk that the backups get sent to, so the dumps themselves don't take so long. So, the other machines that are being backed up, and do the real work in house, don't take any longer then when I had a tape drive on the backup host. From the holding disk on the backup machine they get dumped to the USB external disk drive and it's not real important how long that takes, it's true you would want it done before the next backup started though. I don't use the backup machine for too much more then just doing the backups. It's an old relatively slow desktop machine that was put out of use when we got some upgraded machines. The stats from amanda show that things have settled down to average backing up something like 10 GB a day and that seems to take anywhere from 3 to 5 hours which isn't a problem. Thanks Chris Kottaridis (chriskot@quietwind.net) =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= On Tue, 2007-04-24 at 12:08 +0700, Olivier Nicole wrote: > > Since tapes get expensive and disks are relatively cheap I went out and > > bought a 300 GB USB disk drive for about $90.00. Right now I have amanda > > configured to back things up onto 6 "virtual tapes" each of about 40GB, > > USB is a nice and cheap solution, as long as you don't have too much > data to back-up every time. > > If you have 40GB per day, that would take 10 hours... a bit too much > :) > > Olivier > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >