Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 16:31:51 -0500 From: DAve <dave.list@pixelhammer.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NAS advice? Message-ID: <43F24C47.20405@pixelhammer.com> In-Reply-To: <20060214092426.M60946@arbitor.digitalfreaks.org> References: <43F1E250.1070705@pixelhammer.com> <20060214092426.M60946@arbitor.digitalfreaks.org>
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Brian A. Seklecki wrote: > On Tue, 14 Feb 2006, DAve wrote: > >> (I am cross posting to FreeBSD questions and Bacula Users, I will not >> be cross posting replies) >> >> I've been crying for four years that we needed a decent backup system >> and I always got put off. "It's on order", "can you resubmit an >> updated equipment list". Yea, checks in the mail. >> >> So yesterday I am told that we have some equipment we got in another >> deal and I can have it to backup my NOC. I plan to run Bacula which I >> already have on some individual machines. I want to have Bacula >> clients on all my machines talking to a single machine running the >> Bacula director, hopefully using the NAS machines for storage. >> >> This is the equipment they threw at me, it is old, but amazingly, unused. >> >> 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 > and 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 ICH6 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 Ahh, so they will be fully supported chipsets and on the way to legacy by them time I am allowed to purchase new equipment again ;^). Thanks for the heads up, good to know if I come by an 850 for a client's colo box. I've been getting PE2650's, at least the last two I converted to FreeBSD webservers were. They work beautifully BTW. DAve
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