Backups Hardwares for FreeBSD

[Freddie Cash]

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.

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Freddie Cash, LPIC-2 CCNT CCLP      Network Support Technician
School District 73                  (250) 377-HELP [377-4357]
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