Backups Hardwares for FreeBSD

[Hyunseog Ryu]

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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
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