From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 14 12:43:13 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from agora.neteze.com (agora.neteze.com [208.201.249.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E129C1528E for ; Tue, 14 Sep 1999 12:41:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kc@neteze.com) Received: from admin1 ([208.201.249.51]) by agora.neteze.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-60395U6000L600S0V35) with SMTP id com for ; Tue, 14 Sep 1999 12:44:49 -0700 Message-ID: <0a9301befee9$6fef9580$33f9c9d0@neteze.com> From: "Kelsey Cummings" To: References: <4.1.19990914142612.0094da30@unix01.voicenet.com> <37DEA294.2460B944@ocsny.com> Subject: Re: Tape backups Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 12:43:36 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-Mimeole: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Pete- If you recomend having a tape in each machine and using dump (this is inferred from your brief email) what about tape changers and and backup server like legato or xxxx (?) ($$$?) Do you think that you are still better off with single tape drives? I've got to many servers with poor backups and I'm trying to figure out the solution would be, then try to figure out how to convince the boss to pay for it. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Kelsey Cummings System Administrator NetEase, Inc. kc@neteze.com ----------------------------------------------------------------- ----- Original Message ----- From: pete collins To: John Cc: Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 1999 12:31 PM Subject: Re: Tape backups > John wrote: > > > Hi all - > > > > My boss hit me with this question, and I'm not sure of the answer. We are > > looking at buying 5 new servers, all of which will be configured (my > > byself.... *gulp*) to run FBSD. In an effort to save $$$, he wants to omit > > tape drives from each server, and instead get one server with a > > tape-changer in it. In turn, he wants to use that one tape changer to > > backup all 5 machines nightly. The capacity of the changer will exceed the > > total HD space of the 5 machines combined, so that's not a problem. I'm > > assuming that this will be possible to do using dumps over NFS, however I > > was hoping for some confirmation from someone with more experience in this? > > > > Thanks in advance, > > John > > > > We use to do it this way, because the boss didn't want to spend the money on > tape drive for each machine. > > Please note: > > WE NOW HAVE TAPE DRIVES ON EVERY PRODUCTION SERVER! > > This is really the way to go. > Croning out a backup through NFS works fine. > > But you WILL run out of tape space! > > pete > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > -- > Pete Collins > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message