Has anyone used the freenas.org distro? On what equipment? Thanks. On 2/14/06, Brian A. Seklecki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 14 Feb 2006, DAve wrote: > > > (I am cross posting to FreeBSD questions and Bacula Users, I will not be > > cross posting replies) > > > > I've been crying for four years that we needed a decent backup system and I > > always got put off. "It's on order", "can you resubmit an updated equipment > > list". Yea, checks in the mail. > > > > So yesterday I am told that we have some equipment we got in another deal > > and > > I can have it to backup my NOC. I plan to run Bacula which I already have on > > some individual machines. I want to have Bacula clients on all my machines > > talking to a single machine running the Bacula director, hopefully using the > > NAS machines for storage. > > > > This is the equipment they threw at me, it is old, but amazingly, unused. > > > > One Dell Poweredge 750, 2.8ghz CPU, 1gb ram, 2 500gb SATA Maxtor > > drives(yuk!), CERC SATA controller. > > Be very careful here. I run OpenBSD with CMU RAIDFrame RAID-1 mirrors and > FreeBSD 5.3 with GEOM/GMirror RAID-1 on this platform for embeded devices. > It's rock-solid, except Dell phased the 750 for the 850 and went from ICH6 > to ICH7 Intel Chipsets? Also, they're now OEM'ing Broadcom bge(4) based > NICs instead of Intel em(4), so consider yourself lucky in a sense >:}. > The point is that the 850 will only run the very latest FreeBSD 6.1-BETA1 > snapshots contain support for the newer chips. > > ~lava > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" >
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