Backups Hardwares for FreeBSD

[Gary Palmer]

On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 01:38:21PM -0700, Freddie Cash wrote:
> On October 23, 2007 09:34 am Paulo Fragoso wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> For our multi-TB systems, we do disk-based backups using dar ... to 
> another multi-TB system.  :)
> 
> We use a custom shell script to handle creating full and incremental 
> backups and to rotate through multiple directories to keep a couple 
> backups around.  All via gigabit ethernet and NFS.  And once a week we 
> copy a full backup offsite via SSH tunnels to another multi-TB system via 
> a gigabit fibre link.
> 
> We're using RAID5 with hot-spares on 3Ware 9550SX controllers.

Hi,

Any issues withe RAID5 sets on the 3Ware controllers?  I've heard bad things
about RAID5 on older 3Ware controllers when a disk fails.  Just wondering
if the situation is improved.

Thanks,

Gary