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Joshua Lewis wrote:
This didn't quite make full sense to me (forgive me if I misread it). If they have all mac machines, what kind of machines are they (specs?)? I've noticed with a lot of older macs, upgrading to os x is going to require you to get more ram otherwise your users will complain. I'd suggest not considering os x if they're running anything released before the blue and white g3s (new g4 sales were when os x started shipping standard w/os 9.x and also when os 9 was no longer installed on the later generation g4s).. I have a b&w w/256 megs of ram on it. It's not so bad, but I'd suggest having 384-512 (specs say they only take 512, but they'll actually max otu and handle 1 gig quite well).I have a customer who has learned the hard way (the very hard way) that backups of your corporate data are imperative.
Well now that I have spent the last three days trying to recover their data I need to implement a backup plan for them.
They only have a few drives for backup (two 40G and a 160G) up so I would like to make a full backup this week and then schedule incremental backups from now on.
The two 40G are probably going to get striped together and the 160 is going to be a dedicated backup.
They do not have any tape drives only hard drives and to top it all off they only have Macs. They are using a dedicated Mac running OS 9.2 acting as a server.
I was hoping I could upgrade that system to OS X and I was wondering if
there are any FreeBSD utilities that would work for backing up. Otherwise
I will be setting up a freebsd backup server and I would like to save the
customer the money and not have to go that route.
Since they obviously would want to stay with the mac platform, my suggestion would be to bite the bullet and install os x on all the macs and make the backup machine freebsd. Assume almost any command line utility that exists for freebsd exists or can be compiled for mac os x (see fink.sourceforge.net for the easiest installation management...that's a broad statement so don't REALLY assume that's true w/o doing your own research). If you leave os 9.2 on those macs, you'll end up having to purchase software like mac pc-lan or other networking clients. In the end, it'll be a waste of money when they upgrade to os x anyway. the toss up is buying the os 9.2 software vs. upgrading to os x and them buying os x versions of their software (if they don't run classic in parallel with os x).
I don't know much about backups, but i'd say look into rsync (someone else answer w/something better please).
To save a few bucks, I'd just install freebsd on their server machine.
On a side note, from what i've read (but never experienced) raid support for mac classic can be summed up in 1 word....pthththththe:P Although thye do exist, there are few hardware solutions for mac classic raid and i don't know many people fond of software driven raid (esp if your system crashes completely).
I don't know of any mailing lists, but I do suggest taking a look at www.macosx.com (forums...pretty good) and www.macdevcenter.com (o'reilly's site). The best source for info about personal experiences would be to check http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/. That's where I always go for mac hardware info on older machines.I am sorry for the many OS X questions I have been posting here over the last few days but the Darwin mailing list did not respond. Does anyone know of a good OS X mailing list I can join?
Thank you, Joshua Lewis
Take care, adam
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