Dear All, One of my known friends is the administrator in a company.
He has got close to 6 servers (all HP ML350) all running Windows 20003 with MSSQL 2005/2008. He is taking backup in a rudimentary way. His total backup size would be around 100GB and is increasing by 20% per year. He doesnot have a tape drive and he wants to install it in ML350. I have asked him to use one of the servers as a Backup Server and suggested Backup Server like OpenFiler and he asked me to help in installing the whole thing. I am pretty confident of Openfiler but would like to know Backup Software which is open source / Free software He was ready to give one HP ML350 Server for this purpose which is having 5*73GB SCSI HDDs with RAID5 also. Now, I would like to know 1. What is the best partition layout for Openfiler? 2. Which backup software will be suitable for taking backup periodically (MSSQL) ? Preferably Open Source/Free Software capable of Volume Shadow copy Service. I have checked Zmanda but Amanda Enterprise is capable of taking open files backup but it is costly. Correct me if I am wrong. Also preferable if the software is capable of Data Deduplication. 3. How to take the backup from 5 Servers to Openfiler and Tape Drive? 4. How to take the backup from the servers to Openfiler and also to the tape? 5. I have gone thro' the Openfiler forums and openfiler will accept a tape drive but what will be the best policy of taking the backup from Disks---> disk ----> Tape to install the tape drive in the Openfiler or on one of the other servers? 6. Virtualization is ruled out. Please let me know the solution for this. I have posted this to Openfiler forums also but thought of knowing if any other alternatives are available from you all. Regards Ravi Kumar _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email [email protected] with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
