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Date:      Wed, 06 May 1998 18:38:49 +0100
From:      Manar Hussain <manar@ivision.co.uk>
To:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Network problem with 2.2.6-STABLE
Message-ID:  <3.0.5.32.19980506183849.00931670@stingray.ivision.co.uk>

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>On Tue, 5 May 1998, Ollivier Robert wrote:
>
>> According to Tom:
>> >   There is also the commercial BRU for FreeBSD.  It does compression by
>> > file, and has great verify features.
>> 
>> For larger (and richer) environments, there is an unofficial Legato client
>> for 2.2.x. I've been using it for more than 4 months at work and it is
>> working really fine.
>
>  But the Legato server is not available for FreeBSD.
>
>  If you have only a moderate amount of data to backup, you might as well
>just backup to other cheaper disks.  I setup an NFS server with 4 x 8.4GB
>IDE drives just for backups.  The disks are slow and unreliable by disk
>standards, but fast and reliable by tape standards.

What we are moving towards for back-ups is to have large IDE drives on a
"back-up" machine with partitiona NFS and SMB exported to the client
machines (partitioning based on the nature of the clients and their use and
who you're happy to see what etc.). Client machines then have an easy time
doing as much backing up as they may want. We then shoot the data on the
IDE drives to dat once a week or whenever ... with this way you'd also be
happy enough to unmount the disk.

Manar

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