[Bacula-users] Dell powerVault 124T tape library

2014-12-04 Thread Ian Lord
Hi,

We are looking for a solution to backup freebsd machine with large ZFS pools 
(8TB)

We thought of purchasing a tape library with LTO6 drives which will gives us 
40TB of Retention

Everyone seems to indicate bacula as a good solution but when I look at the 
documentation, it seems 10 years outdated:
http://blog.bacula.org/general/supported-autochangers/

I can't complain because it's open source and I really respect the concept and 
know how documentation is hard to maintain, but I would like to know if I can 
be safe to purchase a 7000$ library, a new server running freebsd and that it 
will work. This is not the kind of things I have sitting in my lab :)

Is anyone running such a setup and can assure me it can be done without too 
much customization and troubles. If I know it can be done for a normal 
poweruser (I'm not a programmer that can modify source code to fix things). 
I'll invest time in learning and reading documentation, but it will be a lot 
more reassuring to know people done it before

Thanks



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Re: [Bacula-users] Dell powerVault 124T tape library

2014-12-04 Thread Ian Lord
Dunno about prices in .ca but south of your border $5K will buy you a 
36+2-bay chassis where you could keep a whole lot of zfs snapshots. 
Probably 72+2 even. What's your planned retention period?

Dima

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I know I am going against the trend as everyone is talking about using HD as a 
backup device, but we are looking as something my life will depend on. If we 
were to loose data, we would end up with a multi-million dollars law suit and 
we'll just go bankrupt.

As we are a SAAS solution, everything is already redundant, we can drop a plane 
in one of our datacenter and customer won't even notice (technically speaking) 
as everything is load balanced and replicated live across the sites.

We have very high security with loadbalancers, IDS, DDOS protection, etc.

But let say a hacker would manage to get in and play around, or even an angry 
employee, or...
A simple rm -r / and all of our protection is gone. Our 2 distant copies and 
the zfs snapshots also...

It's kinda hard for a hacker to format all the tapes in a library furthermore, 
some tapes will be put in a safe...

I love the idea of using HD, so simple, cheap and fast, but if you need 
absolute peace of mind, I think a tape backup is much more reliable in this 
sense in my opinion.

That's why I'm trying to see if bacula could be a good solution in our scenario.

Thanks


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