Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2005 20:52:00 -0500 From: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> To: Justin Bennett <justin@z-axis.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: iSCSI (revisited?) Message-ID: <4251EF40.4000605@centtech.com> In-Reply-To: <4251C00E.1050108@z-axis.com> References: <4251C00E.1050108@z-axis.com>
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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 -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology A lost ounce of gold may be found, a lost moment of time never. ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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