From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 25 03:28:42 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D86016A402 for ; Wed, 25 Apr 2007 03:28:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from illoai@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.173]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 716B613C480 for ; Wed, 25 Apr 2007 03:28:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from illoai@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 71so298155ugh for ; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 20:28:37 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=TK4enTcliAPrpEFryykgotm5GwlJ5AKsdgV7LNvN7kpyTWyvR5dgUBv0Z8qiHTBS4E8+wRrQo2R4zSgIoJxbxhp0qWC4Nh73lhT9CUwKObuplLMItHHaW+zgW6cWON/w6IPwWyTfW5AW+7VGbftXeM/8DnPGbnknJ1TPLq4p7fU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=rUCMVwhvonxn5vC4jfCDcnux8MkqN6hQqel5LR3S1YCw2a3WoYWedejY09SL6nBHWTCu4SFSn6mLk87JqkiUyO2kwuHIT2v8tZ9I+nKDLCQOuHU5+cvmh+wcrvQcyG94ICobh4RC4Xy7ES9OiSDk3OCwmd7svVEPsnZAuglgW0w= Received: by 10.82.169.4 with SMTP id r4mr328121bue.1177471716495; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 20:28:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.82.148.12 with HTTP; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 20:28:36 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 22:28:36 -0500 From: "illoai@gmail.com" To: "Wood, Russell" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <879633.68756.qm@web58109.mail.re3.yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Backup media choices for FreeBSD servers X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 03:28:42 -0000 On 23/04/07, Wood, Russell wrote: > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- > > questions@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Daniel Marsh > > Sent: Tuesday, 24 April 2007 8:21 AM > > To: L Goodwin > > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > > Subject: Re: Backup media choices for FreeBSD servers > > > > On 4/24/07, L Goodwin wrote: > > > > > > I need to implement an automated backup facility on the FreeBSD file > > > server I'm setting up for a client. It will have a software RAID 1 > > > Mirror/Duplex that is made available to Windows XP SP2 and Windows > Vista > > > Home Premium users as a Samba share. I also plan to create system > > recovery > > > disks (disk images) for the server and each Windows client. > > I dump (man dump) my array to a spare 250GB disk within my server. > Indeed. A few cheap (maybe even free) drives are probably at least as reliable as an 80usd DLT tape. Also faster. -- --