Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 16:19:31 -0500 From: j m g <beowulf@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NAS advice? Message-ID: <20f8f4550602141319s1e9867c9nf3231fdc8b518919@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20060214092426.M60946@arbitor.digitalfreaks.org> References: <43F1E250.1070705@pixelhammer.com> <20060214092426.M60946@arbitor.digitalfreaks.org>
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Has anyone used the freenas.org distro? On what equipment? Thanks. On 2/14/06, Brian A. Seklecki <lavalamp@spiritual-machines.org> wrote: > On Tue, 14 Feb 2006, DAve wrote: > > > (I am cross posting to FreeBSD questions and Bacula Users, I will not b= e > > cross posting replies) > > > > I've been crying for four years that we needed a decent backup system a= nd I > > always got put off. "It's on order", "can you resubmit an updated equip= ment > > list". Yea, checks in the mail. > > > > So yesterday I am told that we have some equipment we got in another de= al and > > I can have it to backup my NOC. I plan to run Bacula which I already ha= ve on > > some individual machines. I want to have Bacula clients on all my machi= nes > > talking to a single machine running the Bacula director, hopefully usin= g the > > NAS machines for storage. > > > > This is the equipment they threw at me, it is old, but amazingly, unuse= d. > > > > One Dell Poweredge 750, 2.8ghz CPU, 1gb ram, 2 500gb SATA Maxtor > > drives(yuk!), CERC SATA controller. > > Be very careful here. I run OpenBSD with CMU RAIDFrame RAID-1 mirrors an= d > FreeBSD 5.3 with GEOM/GMirror RAID-1 on this platform for embeded devices= . > It's rock-solid, except Dell phased the 750 for the 850 and went from ICH= 6 > to ICH7 Intel Chipsets? Also, they're now OEM'ing Broadcom bge(4) based > NICs instead of Intel em(4), so consider yourself lucky in a sense >:}. > The point is that the 850 will only run the very latest FreeBSD 6.1-BETA1 > snapshots contain support for the newer chips. > > ~lava > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.o= rg" > -- -jmg -sapere aude
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