Hey Ed, Thanks for the comment, I have been thinking along the lines of the same thing, I am going to continue to try to use bacula but we will see. Out of curiosity, what version of netbackup are you using? I would love to feel pretty well covered haha.
Thanks a lot! Greg On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 9:18 AM, Edward Ned Harvey <solar...@nedharvey.com> wrote: >> In my case where I reboot the server I cannot get the pool to come >> back up. It shows UNAVAIL, I have tried to export before reboot and >> reimport it and have not been successful and I dont like this in the >> case a power issue of some sort happens. My other option was to mount >> using lofiadm however I cannot get it to mount on boot, so the same >> thing happens. Does anyone have any experience with backing up zpools >> to tape? Please any ideas would be greatly beneficial. > > I have a similar setup. "zfs send | ssh somehost 'zfs receive'" works > perfectly, and the 2nd host is attached to a tape library. I'm running > Netbackup on the 2nd host because we could afford it, and then I have an > honest-to-goodness support channel. > > But if you don't want to spend the money for netbackup, I've heard good > things about using Amanda or Bacula to get this stuff onto tape. > > FWIW, since I hate tapes so much, there's one more thing I'm doing. I use > external hard drives, attached to the 2nd server, and periodically "zfs send > | zfs receive" from the 2nd server main disks to the 2nd server removable > disks. Then export the removable disks, and take 'em offsite in a backup > rotation with the tapes. > > The advantage of the tapes is an official support channel, and much greater > archive life. The advantage of the removable disks is that you need no > special software to do a restore, and you could just as easily restore a > single file or the whole filesystem. > > So let's see... I have two different types of offline backup for the backup > server, which itself is just a backup of the main server. So I'm feeling > pretty well covered. ;-) > > _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
