Robert Leche wrote: > Dustin > All my tape backup solutions revolve around SCSI based systems. My > production servers used DLT8000 tapes (40/80gigs). The tapes are ~$50 > each. > > Depending on the lenght of retention, would saving or imaging the > host(s) to a network attached server make sense for you? Sans units > tend to be cheap compaired to tape drives. Slap a few 120g IDE drives > in to an old PC and you are ready to back up 'on the cheap'.
I am actually abandoning (sort of) all of my tape based solutions here in favor of a RedHat 9 box with 4 TB of storage. I am getting two 3ware 8 port RAID cards and 16 250GB drives running RAID 5 in a 4U rack mount for about $9k. This will give me data archival as well as a backup solution. I will use my old tape stuff to periodically (quarterly?) back up the RAID. If you ever want to see a "REAL" tape solution - come to the observatory. We have a _silo_ here that will hold ~70TB of data in a "near online" format using Sun's SAM/QFS software. The filesystem is expanded to include any files on tape. If you do a "cat <some text file on tape>" it will automatically grab the tape, read the file onto temporary disk space, spit out the file, and after a configurable amount of time - free up the disk space. Or something like that - Our SAM/QFS expert is in California. EXPENSIVE though - and I do believe outside the scope of most applications. Oh yeah - the silo is a StorageTek L700 silo -> http://www.storagetek.com/prodserv/products/tape/L700e/ Shannon > > > Bob > > Puryear wrote: > >> We have some FreeBSD servers that need to be backed up. The backup >> server will be a FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE box with IDE. No SCSI. I'd like >> to get a tape backup that can do 20GB or so without compression. Not >> looking for a system with $80 tapes though. I know that DDS4 tapes >> tend to be inexpensive. Just rummaging for thoughts. I don't keep up >> with prices too much. :) >> >> --- >> Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Puryear Information Technology >> Windows, UNIX, and IT Consulting >> http://www.puryear-it.com >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> General mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >> > > -- Shannon Roddy __________________________________________________________________ Systems Administrator California Institute of Technology [EMAIL PROTECTED] LIGO Livingston Observatory ph: (225)686-3106 19100 LIGO Lane fx: (225)686-7189 Livingston, LA 70754 Web Page http://www.ligo-la.caltech.edu/~sroddy Calendar/Schedule See Home Page Wireless Email (255 Chars) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
