Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 18:57:53 -0600 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Large system backups; recommendations for devices & strategies? Message-ID: <199802110057.SAA05174@nospam.hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: Message from Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> of "Mon, 09 Feb 1998 19:56:08 PST." <199802100356.TAA06845@dingo.cdrom.com>
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> I'm looking for recommendations for both backup devices and backup > strategies for a network of about six systems and perhaps 50GB of > data. Ultimately, I'd like something that can run more or less > unattended, modulo media changes, etc. (ie. I expect using Amanda or > similar.) All one filesystem? Multiple systems? Others have suggested jukebox solutions but you might consider 5 or 10 (or 2 or 3) lower cost (than DLT or AIT) Exabyte 8505's which can put an honest 4.8G (or more with compression) on a cheap tape. Plus multiple drives gives you redundancy in hardware and parallel backup for more speed. The CD-R people are pushing their hardware for backups too. In volume a 600MB CD-R disk is approaching $1. Don't think that's a viable solution for you. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe hackers" in the body of the message
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