Re: Global backup solution for FBSD & Ubuntu

2010-07-10 Thread Tim Daneliuk
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 c

Re: Global backup solution for FBSD & Ubuntu

2010-07-09 Thread Francisco Reyes
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 c

Re: Global backup solution for FBSD & Ubuntu

2010-07-08 Thread krad
On 8 July 2010 05:10, Francisco Reyes 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 &

Re: Global backup solution for FBSD & Ubuntu

2010-07-07 Thread Francisco Reyes
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

Re: Global backup solution for FBSD & Ubuntu

2010-07-07 Thread krad
> 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

Re: Global backup solution for FBSD & Ubuntu

2010-07-06 Thread Olivier Nicole
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 an

Re: Global backup solution for FBSD & Ubuntu

2010-07-06 Thread krad
On 4 July 2010 23:18, Tim Daneliuk 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) &g

Re: Global backup solution for FBSD & Ubuntu

2010-07-04 Thread Tim Daneliuk
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

Global backup solution for FBSD & Ubuntu

2010-07-04 Thread bsd
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. For the

Re: continuous backup solution for freebsd?

2008-10-06 Thread Brian
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Re: continuous backup solution for freebsd?

2008-10-06 Thread Evren Yurtesen
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 a

Re: continuous backup solution for freebsd?

2008-10-06 Thread Evren Yurtesen
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

Re: continuous backup solution for freebsd?

2008-10-06 Thread Evren Yurtesen
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

Re: continuous backup solution for freebsd?

2008-10-06 Thread Julien Cigar
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 p

Re: continuous backup solution for freebsd?

2008-10-06 Thread Mel
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

Re: continuous backup solution for freebsd?

2008-10-06 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
roduct would be nothing > without users. As well as this problem effects the quality. Consider a > system which has sensitive data which shouldnt get lost, with continuous > data protecton you can restore such failed system to only few minutes > before the failure point. Doing this i

Re: continuous backup solution for freebsd?

2008-10-06 Thread Roland Smith
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://

Re: continuous backup solution for freebsd?

2008-10-06 Thread Evren Yurtesen
ssue is not even r1soft, they are just the most popular company giving such solution, only 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 wr

Re: continuous backup solution for freebsd?

2008-10-06 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
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 >>> f

Re: continuous backup solution for freebsd?

2008-10-06 Thread Evren Yurtesen
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

Re: continuous backup solution for freebsd?

2008-10-06 Thread Evren Yurtesen
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

Re: continuous backup solution for freebsd?

2008-10-06 Thread Julien Cigar
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 conti

Re: continuous backup solution for freebsd?

2008-10-06 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
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 produ

continuous backup solution for freebsd?

2008-10-06 Thread Evren Yurtesen
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

RE: remote backup solution over WAN

2008-08-17 Thread Tamouh Hakmi
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of S t > i n g r a y > Sent: August 17, 2008 11:22 PM > To: FreeBSD; FreeBSD > Subject: remote backup solution over WAN > > I am building one backup file server on WA

Re: remote backup solution over WAN

2008-08-17 Thread Jason W. Morgan
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 tech

remote backup solution over WAN

2008-08-17 Thread S t i n g r a y
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 rat

Re: Low-cost online disk backup solution on FreeBSD. Hardware/Software recomendations?

2007-10-24 Thread Bill Moran
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 c

Low-cost online disk backup solution on FreeBSD. Hardware/Software recomendations?

2007-10-24 Thread Victor Meirans
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

Re: Backup Solution

2007-09-28 Thread Jerry McAllister
t 30 minutes data I > lose ). You are stuck with some kind 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/softu

Re: Backup Solution

2007-09-28 Thread Bill Moran
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 webserve

Crash Recovery & Backup Solution ?

2007-09-27 Thread dhaneshk k
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 c

Re: Backup Solution

2007-09-27 Thread dhaneshk k
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 c

Re: Backup Solution

2007-09-27 Thread David Robillard
> 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 p

Re: Backup Solution

2007-09-26 Thread Uwe Laverenz
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 wou

Backup Solution

2007-09-26 Thread Terry Sposato
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 pos

Re: backup solution for home FreeBSD server

2007-04-06 Thread John L
>> 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 advan

Re: backup solution for home FreeBSD server

2007-04-06 Thread Jerry McAllister
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 t

Re: backup solution for home FreeBSD server

2007-04-06 Thread Robert Huff
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

Re: backup solution for home FreeBSD server

2007-04-06 Thread Robert Huff
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 pos

Re: backup solution for home FreeBSD server

2007-04-05 Thread Garrett Cooper
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

Re: backup solution for home FreeBSD server

2007-04-05 Thread Colin Percival
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) doe

Re: backup solution for home FreeBSD server

2007-04-05 Thread Vlad Skvortsov
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 u

Re: backup solution for home FreeBSD server

2007-04-05 Thread Roland Smith
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 se

Re: backup solution for home FreeBSD server

2007-04-05 Thread Vlad Skvortsov
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 proba

Re: backup solution for home FreeBSD server

2007-04-05 Thread John Levine
>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 proba

backup solution for home FreeBSD server

2007-04-05 Thread Robert Huff
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

backup solution for home FreeBSD server

2007-04-05 Thread Vlad Skvortsov
[please CC: me, I'm not on the list] 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, s

Re: backup solution

2007-02-13 Thread cpghost
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

Re: backup solution

2007-02-10 Thread perryh
> > 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

Re: backup solution

2007-02-10 Thread Chuck Swiger
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 lan.

Re: backup solution

2007-02-10 Thread Apatewna
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 deskto

backup solution

2007-02-10 Thread Dino Vliet
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 cabl

Re: mail backup solution?

2006-03-14 Thread Norberto Meijome
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

Re: mail backup solution?

2006-03-13 Thread cpghost
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 serve

Re: mail backup solution?

2006-03-13 Thread Anish Mistry
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 check

Re: mail backup solution?

2006-03-13 Thread Mike Jeays
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 a

Re: mail backup solution?

2006-03-13 Thread Chuck Swiger
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 t

Re: mail backup solution?

2006-03-13 Thread Pat Maddox
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

Re: mail backup solution?

2006-03-13 Thread Chuck Swiger
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 cou

Re: mail backup solution?

2006-03-13 Thread Pat Maddox
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

Re: mail backup solution?

2006-03-13 Thread Nils Vogels
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 r

Re: mail backup solution?

2006-03-13 Thread Chuck Swiger
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 > h

Re: mail backup solution?

2006-03-13 Thread Carlos Silva, yourdot-internet.com
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

Re: mail backup solution?

2006-03-13 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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 serve

mail backup solution?

2006-03-13 Thread Carlos Silva, yourdot-internet.com
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

mail backup solution?

2006-03-13 Thread Carlos Silva, yourdot-internet.com
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

RE: Quick, simple backup solution

2005-12-25 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 followin

Re: Quick, simple backup solution

2005-12-25 Thread Teo De Las Heras
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

Re: Quick, simple backup solution

2005-12-23 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"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 . &g

Quick, simple backup solution

2005-12-23 Thread Joe Wood
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

Quick, simple backup solution

2005-12-23 Thread Joe Wood
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 aut

Re: 5.3 backup solution needed (non-SCSI)

2005-01-06 Thread Peter Risdon
gt; > > > Does anyone know of an IDE based solution -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

Re: 5.3 backup solution needed (non-SCSI)

2005-01-06 Thread J.D. Bronson
ll with that in mind, I 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 ext

Re: 5.3 backup solution needed (non-SCSI)

2005-01-06 Thread Peter Risdon
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?

5.3 backup solution needed (non-SCSI)

2005-01-06 Thread J.D. Bronson
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 to

Re: Tape backup solution? [OT]

2003-12-31 Thread Dan Nelson
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

Tape backup solution? [OT]

2003-12-31 Thread Eric F Crist
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

Re: Incremental backup solution. was: What logs etc do I need tocheckfrequently?

2003-12-29 Thread C. Ulrich
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 s

Re: Incremental backup solution. was: What logs etc do I need tocheckfrequently?

2003-12-29 Thread Joachim Dagerot
| 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

Re: Incremental backup solution. was: What logs etc do I need tocheckfrequently?

2003-12-29 Thread Matthew Seaman
ffect 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 b

Incremental backup solution. was: What logs etc do I need tocheckfrequently?

2003-12-29 Thread Joachim Dagerot
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

good mass storage backup solution

2003-06-23 Thread David Bear
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 thou

Re: Backup Solution

2003-03-11 Thread Brian Astill
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 po

Re: Backup Solution

2003-03-11 Thread Kirk Strauser
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

Re: Backup Solution

2003-03-11 Thread Kevin Stevens
> 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 ? /usr/ports/mis

Backup Solution

2003-03-11 Thread Wayne Swart
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