iSCSI (revisited?)
Eric Anderson
anderson at centtech.com
Mon Apr 4 18:52:40 PDT 2005
Justin Bennett wrote:
> All,
>
> I was wondering what people thought of iSCSI and FreeBSD. Is it a viable
> option for creating SANs?
>
> I want to move away from tape backups, and have numerous production
> FreeBSD machines that I need to back up data from.
>
> Any other ideas for a disk to disk backup solution that people have used?
You should check out rsnapshot. It does disk to disk backups either locally, or via ssh. I am using it to snapshot about 2TB of data to a 10TB (total) SAN, based on fiber channel. All FreeBSD backend, with assorted servers I'm backing up.
Eric
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