Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2014 17:32:17 +0000 From: Ian Lord <lordi@msdi.ca> To: Andrea Venturoli <ml@netfence.it>, "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Backup solution for freeBSD/Symantec Backup exec porting Message-ID: <bdfa05850a3e46f6aae49f0d5cf266d5@Server02.ad.ezmax.ca> In-Reply-To: <54809639.4070103@netfence.it> References: <999d7e80e60f466682c736f275b75788@Server02.ad.ezmax.ca> <54809639.4070103@netfence.it>
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>Just some thoughts... >Many others have suggested to avoid tapes; they have some points, but I th= ink they are much too pessimistics. I personally >manage several backup sys= tems, some based on tapes, some on disks, some on a mix of the two.=20 >Think twice before moving from tapes to disk; both have their pros and con= s. >I'm using Bacula in at least four different scenarios and I can't agree wi= th you when you deem it as immature. Sure it has some >rough edges (what bi= g program doesn't?), but it never failed me. >Also I found its documentation far from bad. >I can't tell you anything about tape library support, though, since I neve= r used a tape library. >Also, it comes without a GUI; personally I'm fine with CLI, but I agree in= this case there are some shortcomings. There are plenty >of web interfaces= available, though I'm still waiting to find some time to try them. >In one case I replaced Backup Exec with Bacula and everyone is much happie= r that way. >Just my 2c. >bye > av. I know I am going against the trend as everyone is talking about using HD a= s a backup device, but we are looking as something "my life will depend on"= . If we were to loose data, we would end up with a multi-million dollars la= w suit and we'll just go bankrupt. As we are a SAAS solution, everything is already redundant, we can drop a p= lane in one of our datacenter and customer won't even notice (technically s= peaking) as everything is load balanced and replicated live across the site= s. We have very high security with loadbalancers, IDS, DDOS protection, etc. But let say a hacker would manage to get in and play around, or even an ang= ry employee, or... A simple "rm -r /" and all of our protection is gone. Our 2 distant copies = and the zfs snapshots also... It's kinda hard for a hacker to format all the tapes in a library furthermo= re, some tapes will be put in a safe... I love the idea of using HD, so simple, cheap and fast, but if you need abs= olute peace of mind, I think a tape backup is much more reliable in this se= nse in my opinion. That's why I'm trying to see if bacula could be a good solution in our scen= ario. You seem to indicate Bacula is reliable and mature enough to be used in suc= h a "life threatening lol" situation. I'll read more on it and try to figur= e out if my tape library would work >From there webpage, the supported autoloaders is really outdated. http://blog.bacula.org/general/supported-autochangers/ When you are referring to freebsd 4.9 with a 45G Tape, it's hard to be reas= sured and purchase equipment upfront. If I had that kind of equipment in my= lab I would test it out but unfortunately I don't (I'm talking about the L= TO6 tape library). I've posted a message on bacula's list to see if someone= have a working setup. Thanks a lot for your message. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ian Lord MSD Informatique 143 Rue des Fauvettes St-Colomban (Qu=E9bec) J5K 0E2 T=E9l: (514) 776-6734 #201 Sans Frais: 1(877) 776-6734 #201 http://www.msdi.ca/
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