From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Jul 20 1:54:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from alpha.root-servers.ch (alpha.root-servers.ch [195.49.62.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 88B1C37BCCB for ; Thu, 20 Jul 2000 01:54:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gabriel_ambuehl@buz.ch) Received: (qmail 14886 invoked from network); 20 Jul 2000 08:54:26 -0000 Received: from client98-229.hispeed.ch (HELO 10.2.2.100) (62.2.98.229) by ns1.root-servers.ch with SMTP; 20 Jul 2000 08:54:26 -0000 Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 10:55:28 +0200 From: Gabriel Ambuehl X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.44) UNREG / CD5BF9353B3B7091 Organization: BUZ Internet Services X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <194173858054.20000720105528@buz.ch> To: "Hank Wethington" Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org, isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re[2]: backing up In-reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > We expect about 5-8 gb of back up data on a full back-up. Unfortunately, the > site is over 3.5 hours away, so removing tapes or anything else is not > really an option except for maybe quarterly. That is actually why I'm > thinking along the lines of using a hard drive. Failure rates are lower, > transfer speeds are faster, and data retrieval is much quicker. Sure it is. Actually, we do it every day. We've got several boxes in our Colocation and just rsync the contents of them crossover so all data is atleast two times avaiable. In combination with some cluster hacks this would even allow somewhat failsafe servers but we didn't have the time to implement that yet... Best regards, Gabriel To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message