Hi folks, I'm hoping somebody out there can help with some general advice on what's available for backups on Solaris.
I'm a windows admin so have very little experience of Solaris, but having seen what ZFS can do, we're thinking of adding a Solaris server on our network and using ZFS and Samba to give us cheap bulk storage. We'll be using ZFS send/receive to replicate the data to a second site, but also want to take tape backups for offline storage, and with my limited knowledge I have no idea what is and isn't possible here. Ideally we'd like to use something like the Quantum SuperLoader 3. That's an 8-16 cartridge LTO 2 autoloader. £2,000 for 3.2TB of native capacity gives us plenty of headroom and it's also upgradable to 6.4TB should we ever need it. Right now we're using BackupExec on a windows server. It does have a Solaris client, but I'd rather not drag that amount of data over the network if possible (and to be honest, the sooner I can get rid of BackupExec the better!). What I'd really like is to connect the tape library directly to the main Solaris server and stream the backups directly from that. So, I guess my main questions are: - Should I expect driver problems getting the Quantum Autoloader working in Solaris? - Are there any other Autoloaders that might be a better choice? - What backup software is available to run tape autoloaders on Solaris? This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ storage-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/storage-discuss
