From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 25 10: 9: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.nwlink.com (smtp.nwlink.com [209.20.130.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F1C037B6E9 for ; Tue, 25 Jul 2000 10:09:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcwells@nwlink.com) Received: from utah (jcwells@utah.nwlink.com [209.20.130.41]) by smtp.nwlink.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id KAA03036; Tue, 25 Jul 2000 10:08:51 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 10:20:54 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jason C. Wells" X-Sender: jcwells@utah To: Meagan Jia Pi Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Backup Solution In-Reply-To: <068701bff650$89ea1820$e293c83f@meagan> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, Meagan Jia Pi wrote: > Morning! > > Currently we have two data centers: one is local and the other is remote > at a co-location. > > Currently I am only doing backups using DLT 7000 on critical machines > (AIT seems better with bigger capacity and cheaper price?), as you know, > it will become a big problem as the company grows or when I make a false > judgment on which machines are critical. Scalability and reliability > are very important to us. Using jukboxes seems to be a very good > solution. Has any of you have experience with using juckboxes? > > > What would you do? I would use amanda no matter what hardware I chose. To be fair I do not know about commercial solutions that may exist. Also, if you have a slow link anywhere in between your hosts a networked backup solution may be problematic. With Amanda's scheduling capability you might even find that a robot is not really necessary, depending on your total disc usage among all hosts. E.g. Assuming a week long dump cycle with a 70GB DLT with hardware compression you could handle 490 GB (minus a fudge factor) of allocated disc. Thank you, Jason C. Wells To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message