From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 25 10:52: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from q.closedsrc.org (ip233.gte15.rb1.bel.nwlink.com [209.20.244.233]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E30437B795 for ; Tue, 25 Jul 2000 10:51:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lplist@q.closedsrc.org) Received: from localhost (lplist@localhost) by q.closedsrc.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id e6PHpbr05530; Tue, 25 Jul 2000 10:51:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lplist@q.closedsrc.org) Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 10:51:37 -0700 (PDT) From: Linh Pham To: Meagan Jia Pi Cc: "Jason C. Wells" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Backup Solution In-Reply-To: <06cc01bff65e$9d954f30$e293c83f@meagan> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, Meagan Jia Pi wrote: > > Autoloaders are handy if you have to backup a lot of storage and need to > > span across multiple tapes (and don't want to babysit the backup). But if > > you don't have a lot of stuff to back up, or if the data is highly > > compressible, a standard tape drive should be fine. > > > > If redundancy is crucial, you may want to install a tape drive in each > > machine. This will reduce the need to backup across the network and in > > case one drive goes down, you can use another drive in the other machine > > to do a network backup. The downside to this method is the higher up-front > > cost. > > > > For our datacenter, we have a 22-slot DLT IV autoloader connected to a > > Windows 2000 machine (shh! I know, I know!!!) using Veritas Backup > > Exec. It works great for our Windows servers, but doesn't work with the > > BSD servers that run Samba. > > Why didn't you choose AIT? We already had another DLT drive which we wanted to read old backups from. Unfortunately, that one kicked the null bit bucket a while back and used DDS3 DAT drives but boy did it suck :) // Linh Pham // http://closedsrc.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message