On Thu, 11 Oct 2018 at 13:01, Tony Fernandez via talk <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi All, > > I just recently joined your group and was hoping for some insight or advise > on building a backup solution. > > My question is related to Bacula on FreeNAS. I hope it's ok that I ask if not > I understand. > > ==Background== > We run a mixed environment (Windows and Linux). I've been slowly moving > services that we run over to Linux wherever possible however I've run into an > issue with our existing backup server. It is a Microsoft product. I'm not > looking for help on it, instead I am looking for advise on using bacula. > > I've configured Bacula and have it working successfully and I like how I can > deploy agents onto my servers to handle backups. I love the distributed > achitecture. > > So my question: I'd like to use FreeNAS as our StorageDaemon (sd) going > forward. I'd also like to do remote offsite backups by either rsyncing files > over to a remote server or by getting FreeNAS to backup to an external HDD > that I rotate weekly. > > ==Questions== > Does anyone see any issues with this? > What do you think about the HDD rotation?
Bacula has always seemed to be one of the good options out there, and running it on FreeNAS is certainly well supported. There's nothing obviously wrong with your approach to rsync to a remote place or copy to external HDD for rotation. Madison Kelly did a talk on something akin back in 2004; Madison was the first person I heard that particularly "championed" using USB-connected HDDs as a backup medium at the time that tape drives were only just starting to get supplanted as a backup medium. Since then, that direction has become somewhere in between "viable" and "preferable." And it now looks like tape drives are pretty rarely used anymore, as rarity has made it difficult for vendors to boost capacity as quickly as is the case for disk drives. *Everyone* wants bigger HDDs. (Well, we're starting to glimpse a place where solid state drives are getting sufficiently large and cheap that a lot of computer systems now prefer SSD, and we may see HDDs go somewhat down the road that tape drives have...) Rotating the HDDs so that they do get spun up fairly regularly is a good idea. -- When confronted by a difficult problem, solve it by reducing it to the question, "How would the Lone Ranger handle this?" --- Talk Mailing List [email protected] https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
