Backup media choices for FreeBSD servers

[illoai at gmail.com]

On 23/04/07, Wood, Russell <Russell.Wood at rac.com.au> wrote:
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-
> > questions at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Daniel Marsh
> > Sent: Tuesday, 24 April 2007 8:21 AM
> > To: L Goodwin
> > Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> > Subject: Re: Backup media choices for FreeBSD servers
> >
> > On 4/24/07, L Goodwin <xrayv19 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > I need to implement an automated backup facility on the FreeBSD file
> > > server I'm setting up for a client. It will have a software RAID 1
> > > Mirror/Duplex that is made available to Windows XP SP2 and Windows
> Vista
> > > Home Premium users as a Samba share.  I also plan to create system
> > recovery
> > > disks (disk images) for the server and each Windows client.
>
> I dump (man dump) my array to a spare 250GB disk within my server.
>

Indeed.  A few cheap (maybe even free) drives are probably
at least as reliable as an 80usd DLT tape.  Also faster.

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