From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 5 01:52:40 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7433C16A4CE for ; Tue, 5 Apr 2005 01:52:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mh1.centtech.com (moat3.centtech.com [207.200.51.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A2A143D39 for ; Tue, 5 Apr 2005 01:52:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from [192.168.42.22] (andersonbox2.centtech.com [192.168.42.22]) by mh1.centtech.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j351qYDX019587; Mon, 4 Apr 2005 20:52:38 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Message-ID: <4251EF40.4000605@centtech.com> Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2005 20:52:00 -0500 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050325 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Justin Bennett References: <4251C00E.1050108@z-axis.com> In-Reply-To: <4251C00E.1050108@z-axis.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.82/804/Mon Apr 4 09:38:58 2005 on mh1.centtech.com X-Virus-Status: Clean cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: iSCSI (revisited?) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2005 01:52:40 -0000 Justin Bennett wrote: > All, > > I was wondering what people thought of iSCSI and FreeBSD. Is it a viable > option for creating SANs? > > I want to move away from tape backups, and have numerous production > FreeBSD machines that I need to back up data from. > > Any other ideas for a disk to disk backup solution that people have used? You should check out rsnapshot. It does disk to disk backups either locally, or via ssh. I am using it to snapshot about 2TB of data to a 10TB (total) SAN, based on fiber channel. All FreeBSD backend, with assorted servers I'm backing up. Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology A lost ounce of gold may be found, a lost moment of time never. ------------------------------------------------------------------------