Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:50:01 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Large system backups; recommendations for devices & strategies? Message-ID: <199802111750.JAA00661@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 10 Feb 1998 18:57:53 CST." <199802110057.SAA05174@nospam.hiwaay.net>
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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? 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. I had considered this. How would this compare cost-wise with an EXB8505-based changer? > Plus multiple > drives gives you redundancy in hardware and parallel backup for more > speed. I appreciate this. The big downside with multiple drives is feeding the rotten things, and the slightly more grubby software involved. > 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. Not unless there's a changer that behaves enough like a tape drive, no. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe hackers" in the body of the message
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