From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Nov 25 17:52:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA10620 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 17:52:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from wopr.inetu.net (wopr.inetu.net [207.18.13.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA10615 for ; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 17:52:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dev@wopr.inetu.net) Received: from localhost (dev@localhost) by wopr.inetu.net (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id UAA14134 for ; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 20:52:21 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 20:52:21 -0500 (EST) From: Dev To: isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Backup strategy. 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 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