Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 20:52:21 -0500 (EST) From: Dev <dev@wopr.inetu.net> To: isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Backup strategy. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.981125204115.14040A-100000@wopr.inetu.net>
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I am currently designing a backup solution for our network. Just looking for people willing to discuss their experience. We have about 23 FreeBSD/NT servers (mostly freebsd). We are planning on a seperate backup system for FreeBSD and NT. If anyone has any ideas on a good unified theory... Most I have read about will not backup the NT registry, file permissions, etc. Our FreeBSD servers have 6-9 GB drives (the newer ones have the 9 GB drives). We are planning on purchasing a HP SureStore DLT 40 http://www.hp.com/tape/datasheets/dlt40.html We are planning on using an old server (P150 w/64 MB RAM and 3 GB IDE drive) for a central FreeBSD backup machine. We are planning to install Amanda and schedule full backups every two weeks, and incremental everyday. We need to have a very high degree of assurance that our backup solution will work. We are adding servers at a very fast rate, maybe 2-4 per month (well, that's high for us :-) Any thoughts on a scallable solution? Any solution that can scale to 100 plus servers? Have people found Amanda to be a reliable package? Good recovery features? I think we finally have it right. So far we have been using tar across the network to a 4/8 GB DAT. Thanks for your help in advance, Dev Dev Chanchani - INetU, Inc.(tm) - http://www.INetU.net Electronic commerce - Web development - Web hosting dev@INetU.net - Phone: (610) 266-7441 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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