Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 15:41:18 -0500 From: Hyunseog Ryu <r.hyunseog@ieee.org> To: Albert.Shih@obspm.fr Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org, Mike Tibor <tibor@tibor.org> Subject: Re: Backups Hardwares for FreeBSD Message-ID: <471E5C6E.4040909@ieee.org> In-Reply-To: <20071023202916.GG62076@pcjas.obspm.fr> References: <471E2290.9040704@nlink.com.br> <20071023115757.B15895@alpha.tibor.org> <20071023202916.GG62076@pcjas.obspm.fr>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 With hot-swappable RAID disk, you can move around from building to building, or from city to city. Albert Shih wrote: > Le 23/10/2007 à 12:03:37-0800, Mike Tibor a écrit >> On Tue, 23 Oct 2007, Paulo Fragoso wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> We have a FreeBSD mail server with 1TB RAID 6 using Areca >>> ARC-1220 controler, all works fine. >>> >>> Today our backups are made on DDS-4 tapes, they are very slow >>> and too small, this is our problem. What is a good (modern) >>> alternative to DDS-4 working on FreeBSD? >> At another job I used a Sony AIT-2 drive to back up a number of >> BSD/OS and FreeBSD boxes, and it was fine. At the job I'm in now >> I get to play with an ADIC Scalar I2000 tape library with LTO2 >> drives. LTO2 is pretty nice, but it's starting to get a little >> expensive. LTO3 or 4 would be great if you can afford it. I >> suppose it depends greatly on the budget you have available. >> >> If you want to get away from tape, you could build up a >> disk-based backup server with a number of large SATA drives and >> script something using rsync. > > Well....IMHO it's not the same thing. The backup on other server is > usable if you have another bulding, because if the backup server is > in same room if you have fire in you server room you lost > everything. With tape you can put the tape more easyly in another > room/building. > > But if you can I recommand you to using rsnapshot (it's in ports) > it's set of perl script base on rsync and it's very wonderful tool. > > > Regards. > > -- Albert SHIH Observatoire de Paris Meudon SIO batiment 15 Heure > local/Local time: Mar 23 oct 2007 22:26:35 CEST > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-isp@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-isp To > unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-isp-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHHlxuZkEzJIVS03MRArh4AJ4k61OIRVeMBQf/yIRXXZZ5rdLD+QCgmetO GfZy4TmUGW2YyKoGlsXNQks= =v+LC -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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