On 7/4/2010 4:43 PM, bsd wrote:
Hello,
I am trying to build a global backup solution for couple of strategic servers
(7) based on two operating systems :
- FreeBSD (6 - 7 // soon 7 - 8)
- Ubuntu 8.04 LTS
These servers are hosting some strategic components mainly related to DNS
krad writes:
In my experience dedup requires a fairly large amount of juice so if your
backups are large I hope you machines are big on ram
The way tarsnap does it is not that intensive. I have used in an old 900Mhz
machine with less than 640MB of RAM and it worked well.
I think the program
On 8 July 2010 05:10, Francisco Reyes li...@stringsutils.com wrote:
bsd writes:
I am trying to build a global backup solution for couple of strategic
servers (7) based on two operating systems :
Depending on how much data you are trying to backup and whether an internet
backup solution
I used to use tapes, I have changed for disks, it is much much faster
and easier. And cheaper! In a 3U enclosure you can have 16 disks, for
32TB of storage.
A sun x4500 can get 48 drives in 4u. Its intel based so should run freebsd
ok if you want to. Not sure what the max drive size is but
bsd writes:
I am trying to build a global backup solution for couple of strategic servers (7) based on two operating systems :
Depending on how much data you are trying to backup and whether an internet
backup solution would work, you may want to take a look at tarsnap:
http
On 4 July 2010 23:18, Tim Daneliuk tun...@tundraware.com wrote:
On 07/04/10 16:43, bsd wrote:
Hello,
I am trying to build a global backup solution for couple of strategic
servers (7) based on two operating systems :
- FreeBSD (6 - 7 // soon 7 - 8)
- Ubuntu 8.04 LTS
These servers
Hi,
I am trying to build a global backup solution for couple of strategic
servers (7) based on two operating systems :
- FreeBSD (6 - 7 // soon 7 - 8)
- Ubuntu 8.04 LTS
I am running amanda as a centralized backup solution for FreeBSD,
Linuxes and Windows.
Amanda server is a dedicated
Hello,
I am trying to build a global backup solution for couple of strategic servers
(7) based on two operating systems :
- FreeBSD (6 - 7 // soon 7 - 8)
- Ubuntu 8.04 LTS
These servers are hosting some strategic components mainly related to DNS
infrastructure and databases
On 07/04/10 16:43, bsd wrote:
Hello,
I am trying to build a global backup solution for couple of strategic servers
(7) based on two operating systems :
- FreeBSD (6 - 7 // soon 7 - 8)
- Ubuntu 8.04 LTS
These servers are hosting some strategic components mainly related to DNS
infrastructure
On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 12:58:30PM +0300, Evren Yurtesen wrote:
Hello,
Is there a known continuous backup solution similar to r1soft backup for
FreeBSD? I googled a lot but couldnt find anything.
R1soft says they need help to develop FreeBSD support in their product.
Do you know anybody
Hello,
Is there a known continuous backup solution similar to r1soft backup for
FreeBSD? I googled a lot but couldnt find anything.
R1soft says they need help to develop FreeBSD support in their product. Do you
know anybody who can help r1soft on this issue?
Please see: http
Bacula ? http://www.bacula.org
I use it at work to backup linux and freebsd boxes and it works like a
charm.
On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 04:20 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 12:58:30PM +0300, Evren Yurtesen wrote:
Hello,
Is there a known continuous backup solution similar
Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 12:58:30PM +0300, Evren Yurtesen wrote:
Hello,
Is there a known continuous backup solution similar to r1soft backup for
FreeBSD? I googled a lot but couldnt find anything.
R1soft says they need help to develop FreeBSD support in their product
Julien Cigar wrote:
Bacula ? http://www.bacula.org
I use it at work to backup linux and freebsd boxes and it works like a
charm.
On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 04:20 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 12:58:30PM +0300, Evren Yurtesen wrote:
Hello,
Is there a known continuous backup
On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 05:36:32PM +0300, Evren Yurtesen wrote:
Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 12:58:30PM +0300, Evren Yurtesen wrote:
Hello,
Is there a known continuous backup solution similar to r1soft backup
for FreeBSD? I googled a lot but couldnt find anything
if there was at least one backup solution which
could provide near continuous data protection...
In addition to this, near continuous backups create less load on boxes
with a lot of reads but little writes. Standart backups have to scan all
the files to detect which files were changed.
I'm sorry
On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 12:58:30PM +0300, Evren Yurtesen wrote:
Hello,
Is there a known continuous backup solution similar to r1soft backup for
FreeBSD? I googled a lot but couldnt find anything.
I don't think so. The closest thing I know of is rsnapshot
(http://www.rsnapshot.org/).
My
company giving
such solution, only if there was at least one backup solution which
could provide near continuous data protection...
Part of the design issue here is that there's two concepts being
merged into one thing: snapshots and backup restoration.
I for one have never correlated
On Monday 06 October 2008 19:07:30 Evren Yurtesen wrote:
First of all, I am not an r1soft advocate, but they seem to be making a
software which is popular and affordable and interested in giving
FreeBSD support... r1soft is not the issue here, the problem is that
there is no way to do near
Sorry for once more but: you can make incremental backups every x
minutes with Bacula too .. it only takes one or two minutes on my box to
scan for changed files for ~150GB (even faster if you tweak it a bit).
It's not really a true continuous backup solution, but it's perfectly
possible
Roland Smith wrote:
On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 12:58:30PM +0300, Evren Yurtesen wrote:
Hello,
Is there a known continuous backup solution similar to r1soft backup for
FreeBSD? I googled a lot but couldnt find anything.
I don't think so. The closest thing I know of is rsnapshot
(http
Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
What I'm saying is that Linux has the upper hand here. More eyes, more
people, more developers, larger community, larger vendor support, and
much **much** faster turn-around time on fixes/bugs. We can sit here
and argue about those facts all we want (it's the equivalent
Mel wrote:
I think once you and R1soft step out of the I need a block level device
paradigm, you will see that modifying ggate with a copy and fall through
mode, as well as a mechanism to block writes to the local provider, when the
remote provider wants to write is the best solution all
rsync via cron or raid?
Brian
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I am building one backup file server on WAN on FreeBSD, which will backup
remote servers data over slow links, (256-512kbps), simply because i have never
seen an operating system as stable/robust as FreeBSD ever :-)
Now i want to know a technology that can sync only the changed data in a day
On 2008.08.17 20:22:00, S t i n g r a y wrote:
I am building one backup file server on WAN on FreeBSD, which will
backup remote servers data over slow links, (256-512kbps), simply
because i have never seen an operating system as stable/robust as
FreeBSD ever :-)
Now i want to know a
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Sent: August 17, 2008 11:22 PM
To: FreeBSD; FreeBSD
Subject: remote backup solution over WAN
I am building one backup file server on WAN on FreeBSD, which
will backup remote
Good day,
I need an advice. What hardware/software would you recommend for online
disk backup server solution on FreeBSD?
99% of clients will be Windows XP/Vista users and the main requirement
is low cost solution meaning that the client license should be free
(GPL?) or low-priced compared to
In response to Victor Meirans [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Good day,
I need an advice. What hardware/software would you recommend for online
disk backup server solution on FreeBSD?
99% of clients will be Windows XP/Vista users and the main requirement
is low cost solution meaning that the client
Hi everybody ,
I like to know the different backup techniques that is very cheaper (I
cant go for a SAN, mirror .. even if I can purchase those,please excuse me
because I believe more productivity @ less resources )for my webserver, but
any solution logicaly the cheapest one ,by which I
From: dhaneshk k [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Backup Solution
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 06:11:14 +
Hi everybody ,
I like to know the different backup techniques that is very cheaper (I
cant go for a SAN
of real time mirroring then. There is no
backup solution that doesn't have at least a little lag. There are
also socalled 'bare-metal' solutions such as Acronis, but in some sense,
they are also a form of mirror/softupdate/journaling that may cost you
possibly more than you want - given what you
In response to dhaneshk k [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Hi everybody ,
I like to know the different backup techniques that is very cheaper (I
cant go for a SAN, mirror .. even if I can purchase those,please excuse me
because I believe more productivity @ less resources )for my webserver, but
I am relatively new to the FreeBSD game and have a bit of a problem which
I
am not sure how to tackle. I recently build a server running VMWare ESX
Server 3 which will eventually run 6-7 small production VM's. These
Virtual
Machines obviously have the need for backups and it poses quite a
Hello everyone,
I am relatively new to the FreeBSD game and have a bit of a problem which I
am not sure how to tackle. I recently build a server running VMWare ESX
Server 3 which will eventually run 6-7 small production VM's. These Virtual
Machines obviously have the need for backups and it
On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 10:40:52AM +1000, Terry Sposato wrote:
I will be very grateful for suggestions or ways people have tackled this
kind of problem in a production environment.
I'd use a separate machine with a set of cheap SATA disks and connect my
tape drives to this machine. Then I
Robert Huff wrote:
I'm looking for an external backup solution for my FreeBSD file
server. I want it to be pluggable via USB interface (I'd share
it with a couple of servers). I'd also like to be able to move
backups to an off-site storage, so external HDD won't probably
work for me. My
On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 11:06:44PM -0700, Vlad Skvortsov wrote:
Robert Huff wrote:
I'm looking for an external backup solution for my FreeBSD file
server. I want it to be pluggable via USB interface (I'd share
it with a couple of servers). I'd also like to be able to move
backups
Roland Smith wrote:
http://www.addonics.com/products/Saturn/aeschd.asp
Yep, this looks interesting. However, can you say if there is any
significant advantage of this Saturn enclosures over standard ones,
besides the cyphering feature?
If you want encryption, you can
Robert Huff wrote:
Check out Addonics, particularly the Saturn system.
I have one of these:
http://www.addonics.com/products/Saturn/aeschd.asp
I recommend against buying anything from a company which
(a) uses DES,
(b) describes it as bullet proof protection, or
(c) doesn't
John Levine wrote:
I'm looking for an external backup solution for my FreeBSD file server.
I want it to be pluggable via USB interface (I'd share it with a couple
of servers). I'd also like to be able to move backups to an off-site
storage, so external HDD won't probably work for me. My
Vlad Skvortsov writes:
http://www.addonics.com/products/Saturn/aeschd.asp
Yes, I'm aware of that. I guess my question was: why did you refer to
this particular enclosure? Or you just happen to have this one and this
is the reason?
I happen to have this one; it's possible,
Garrett Cooper writes:
Have you also considered tape backup as well as standard disks?
Tapes are a bit more expensive, but overall a more static backup
/ archiving solution than disks. Besides, they're cheaper in the
long run from what remember.
The problem is: tapes are slow;
On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 09:12:11AM -0400, Robert Huff wrote:
Garrett Cooper writes:
Have you also considered tape backup as well as standard disks?
Tapes are a bit more expensive, but overall a more static backup
/ archiving solution than disks. Besides, they're cheaper in the
Get a couple of 150G USB disks. They work great, you can use
dump/restore or just pax -r -w to copy stuff to the disks.
Have you also considered tape backup as well as standard disks?
I used to use DLT tapes, and I looked at AIT before I decided on
disks. The disks have a couple of
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Hi!
I'm looking for an external backup solution for my FreeBSD file server.
I want it to be pluggable via USB interface (I'd share it with a couple
of servers). I'd also like to be able to move backups to an off-site
storage, so external HDD won't
Vlad Skvortsov writes:
I'm looking for an external backup solution for my FreeBSD file
server. I want it to be pluggable via USB interface (I'd share
it with a couple of servers). I'd also like to be able to move
backups to an off-site storage, so external HDD won't probably
work
I'm looking for an external backup solution for my FreeBSD file server.
I want it to be pluggable via USB interface (I'd share it with a couple
of servers). I'd also like to be able to move backups to an off-site
storage, so external HDD won't probably work for me. My data size is
currently
On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 10:26:28AM -0800, Dino Vliet wrote:
I'm busy preparing my via c3 system to utilize it as a
backup file server.
On the motherboard I have two IDE channels and
currenntly they have installed a IDE hard disk and a
dvd-rom. However, I have bought an extra IDE cable
Hi peeps,
I'm busy preparing my via c3 system to utilize it as a
backup file server.
On the motherboard I have two IDE channels and
currenntly they have installed a IDE hard disk and a
dvd-rom. However, I have bought an extra IDE cable
where I will put two IDE hard disks in a master-slave
or
O/H Dino Vliet έγραψε:
Hi peeps,
I'm busy preparing my via c3 system to utilize it as a
backup file server.
...snip
I will use the system then as a central node with
rsync to do daily backups of my main data that is
scattered around on different desktops on my lan.
Are those
Dino Vliet wrote:
[ ... ]
Then I will install freebsd on the first disk and will
use the two spare IDE-disks on the same cable as a
geom-mirror.
I will use the system then as a central node with
rsync to do daily backups of my main data that is
scattered around on different desktops on my
Then I will install freebsd on the first disk and will
use the two spare IDE-disks on the same cable as a
geom-mirror.
...
Please be aware that the ATA implementation of the VIA EPIA
chipset isn't the greatest, especially when both are active at
the same time. I've seen drive
On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 10:38:47 -0500
Mike Jeays [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
re. server side backup,
a) if you can't have shell access to the box, rsync is kind of out of
the question
b) If your mail is hosted alongside your website, which is managed by
one of the many control panels (cpanel, plesk,
Hello,
I have my email stored at a reseller account (via imap) on a server.
My intention is that my server at home, download all the emails via imap
to backup automatically everyday.
But, I dont want that my server download repeated messages (because i
have thousands of emails...).
Someone
Hello,
I have my email stored at a reseller account (via imap) on a server.
My intention is that my server at home, download all the emails via imap
to backup automatically everyday.
But, I dont want that my server download repeated messages (because i
have thousands of emails...).
Someone has a
On 3/13/06, Carlos Silva, yourdot-internet.com
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,
I have my email stored at a reseller account (via imap) on a server.
My intention is that my server at home, download all the emails via imap
to backup automatically everyday.
But, I dont want that my server
hello,
i really dont think so :(
regards,
carlos silva
[1]www.yourdot-services.com
[EMAIL PROTECTED] escreveu:
On 3/13/06, Carlos Silva, yourdot-internet.com
[3][EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,
I have my email stored at a reseller account (via imap) on a server.
My intention
Carlos Silva, yourdot-internet.com wrote:
I have my email stored at a reseller account (via imap) on a server.
My intention is that my server at home, download all the emails via imap
to backup automatically everyday.
But, I dont want that my server download repeated messages (because i
have
Hi Carlos!
Carlos Silva, yourdot-internet.com wrote on 13-03-2006 9:20:
I have my email stored at a reseller account (via imap) on a server.
My intention is that my server at home, download all the emails via imap
to backup automatically everyday.
But, I dont want that my server download
On 3/13/06, Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Carlos Silva, yourdot-internet.com wrote:
I have my email stored at a reseller account (via imap) on a server.
My intention is that my server at home, download all the emails via imap
to backup automatically everyday.
But, I dont want that
Pat Maddox wrote:
On 3/13/06, Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[ ... ]
Your mail hosting provider should have working backups, although it is worth
checking.
I have a server running postfix/courier-imap, and I'd like to know how
to make those working backups. I've asked a couple
On 3/13/06, Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Pat Maddox wrote:
On 3/13/06, Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[ ... ]
Your mail hosting provider should have working backups, although it is
worth
checking.
I have a server running postfix/courier-imap, and I'd like to know how
Pat Maddox wrote:
On 3/13/06, Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[ ... ]
The two most common styles of mailboxes are mbox and maildir, and both of
those
can be backed up at the filesystem level using dump, tar, or anything else.
I've got it set up using maildir. In the past to back up
On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 09:28 -0500, Chuck Swiger wrote:
Pat Maddox wrote:
On 3/13/06, Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[ ... ]
The two most common styles of mailboxes are mbox and maildir, and both of
those
can be backed up at the filesystem level using dump, tar, or anything else.
On Monday 13 March 2006 09:24, Pat Maddox wrote:
On 3/13/06, Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Pat Maddox wrote:
On 3/13/06, Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[ ... ]
Your mail hosting provider should have working backups,
although it is worth checking.
I have a
On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 08:20:09AM +, Carlos Silva, yourdot-internet.com
wrote:
I have my email stored at a reseller account (via imap) on a server.
My intention is that my server at home, download all the emails via imap
to backup automatically everyday.
But, I dont want that my server
Lowell,
Great Site!! Thanks...
http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/systuff
On 23 Dec 2005 15:29:41 -0500, Lowell Gilbert
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Joe Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I am looking for a quick backup solution for my freebsd machine.
Currently I
backup to a DDS-4 DAT drive using
] Behalf Of Joe Wood
Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2005 9:16 AM
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Quick, simple backup solution
I am looking for a quick backup solution for my freebsd
machine. Currently I
backup to a DDS-4 DAT drive using the following while in /:
tar -zpcvf /dev/sa0 .
I am
I am looking for a quick backup solution for my freebsd machine. Currently I
backup to a DDS-4 DAT drive using the following while in /:
tar -zpcvf /dev/sa0 .
I am aware of bacula, Amanda, cpio, and dump but to me tar is the ideal
method so if anyone had a simple script to automate
I am looking for a quick backup solution for my freebsd machine. Currently I
backup to a DDS-4 DAT drive using the following while in /:
tar -cf /dev/sa0 -I /root/includes -X /root/excludes .
I am aware of bacula, Amanda, cpio, and dump but to me tar is the ideal
method so if anyone had
Joe Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I am looking for a quick backup solution for my freebsd machine. Currently I
backup to a DDS-4 DAT drive using the following while in /:
tar -cf /dev/sa0 -I /root/includes -X /root/excludes .
I am aware of bacula, Amanda, cpio, and dump
I finally found the reason my 5.3 machine was randomly rebooting.
It is either the scsi HBA and/or the drive. Although the same exact
hardware runs any other OS fine :-/
well with that in mind, I am now all IDE and USB capable.
No more SCSIso there went my tape backup solution.
I need
SCSIso there went my tape backup solution.
I need to backup only about 4-5GB at once. My DDS SCSI drive handled that
fine...
Does anyone know of an IDE based solution -or- a USB backup solution?
A usb external hard drive?
Peter
am now all IDE and USB capable.
No more SCSIso there went my tape backup solution.
I need to backup only about 4-5GB at once. My DDS SCSI drive handled that
fine...
Does anyone know of an IDE based solution -or- a USB backup solution?
A usb external hard drive?
Peter.
Thats a great idea
-or- a USB backup solution?
A usb external hard drive?
Peter.
Thats a great ideaI hadnt thought of that and recovery is MUCH faster.
Anyone have any recommendations on a manufacturer and source?
I would need 2 of these...since I have 2 servers.
I have a client rotating two
Hello List,
I have a question that's slightly off-topic, but not. I install high-end
surveillance equipment for CCTV and such. I have a rather large client in
Minneapolis who's using Dedicated Micros digital video recorders. The
particular model we're using has a 500 GB hdd, but this client
In the last episode (Dec 31), Eric F Crist said:
I have a question that's slightly off-topic, but not. I install
high-end surveillance equipment for CCTV and such. I have a rather
large client in Minneapolis who's using Dedicated Micros digital
video recorders. The particular model we're
This solution sounds nice, I can even imagine setting up an additional
machine (on the same location though) to have a somewhat galvanic
isolation between the disks. Only fire, earthquake and a neutronbomb
would affect such a backup solution.
However, I could use a push in the right direction
such a backup solution.
Before certain events in New York, we used to talk about hypothetical
jumbo jets when considering our disaster plans. Secure off-site
backups are a necessity. Take care thought that the off-site location
really is secure. I did hear that some of the businesses in the World
Trade
| Before certain events in New York, we used to talk about
hypothetical
| jumbo jets when considering our disaster plans. Secure off-site
| backups are a necessity. Take care thought that the off-site
location
| really is secure. I did hear that some of the businesses in the
World
| Trade
On Mon, 2003-12-29 at 04:35, Joachim Dagerot wrote:
This solution sounds nice, I can even imagine setting up an additional
machine (on the same location though) to have a somewhat galvanic
isolation between the disks. Only fire, earthquake and a neutronbomb
would affect such a backup solution
I have been using tapes for yeares, both DDS/dat and AIT style units.
This seems the be cheapest solution for high volume backup. But I'm
wondering if anyone has any hardware solution that is really a good
backup media. I used ORB disks for a while, at 40$ per 2gig disk of
DASD style media I
Hi everyone
I am looking for a centralized backup solution for FreeBSD. It must be
able to backup to harddrive, rather than to a tape drive, and must have
support for FreeBSD/Linux and Windows 2000 clients.
Does anyone have any suggestions ?
Kind Regards
Wayne Swart
Network Aministrator
MICS
At 2003-03-11T09:36:24Z, Kevin Stevens [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
It must be able to backup to harddrive, rather than to a tape drive, and
must have support for FreeBSD/Linux and Windows 2000 clients.
/usr/ports/misc/amanda-server
/usr/ports/misc/amanda-client
I wasn't aware that the
On Tue, 11 Mar 2003 07:45 pm, Wayne Swart wrote:
Hi everyone
I am looking for a centralized backup solution for FreeBSD. It must
be able to backup to harddrive, rather than to a tape drive, and must
have support for FreeBSD/Linux and Windows 2000 clients.
bu (in ports) looks good
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