From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 7 18:22:34 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8D2916A41C for ; Thu, 7 Jul 2005 18:22:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lars@gmx.at) Received: from mail.gmx.net (pop.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7A49143D49 for ; Thu, 7 Jul 2005 18:22:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lars@gmx.at) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 07 Jul 2005 18:22:28 -0000 Received: from 252.213.76.83.cust.bluewin.ch (EHLO [192.168.1.11]) [83.76.213.252] by mail.gmx.net (mp025) with SMTP; 07 Jul 2005 20:22:28 +0200 X-Authenticated: #912863 Message-ID: <42CD7305.3060203@gmx.at> Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2005 20:23:01 +0200 From: lars User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050606) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Subject: Backup solution needed X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2005 18:22:34 -0000 Hi all, I need to find a backup solution for following scenario: 4 Windows (2003 and SBS 2003) and 1 Mac OS X servers, 6 Windows XP Pro clients. Daily backup of 3 MS SQL Databases and other files, appr. total size is 60 GB. Backup must happen automatically with near zero interaction by human. If a tape needs to be changed I want a message sent to me. Restore must be feasible by non-technical people; half a page of _easy_ instructions must be enough to enable the reader to do a functional restore, without calling me in my holidays. (In this situation the server is still running and functional, only the backed up files or databases are corrupted.) I thought of putting in a FreeBSD box with an attached tape drive and bacula as software. If you agree with this idea, is there a tape drive and SCSI controller you recommend? Have you got any experience you might want to share? If you don't agree with this solution, do you have a better one? The budget is appr. EUR 1500.- and 10 days to set it up. Preferrably no recurring costs apart from backup media and maintenance of the server. Many thanks in advance, lars.