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 components mainly related to DNS

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

Re: Global backup solution for FBSD Ubuntu

2010-07-08 Thread krad
On 8 July 2010 05:10, Francisco Reyes li...@stringsutils.com 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 backup solution

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

2010-07-07 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:

Re: Global backup solution for FBSD Ubuntu

2010-07-06 Thread krad
On 4 July 2010 23:18, Tim Daneliuk tun...@tundraware.com 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) - Ubuntu 8.04 LTS These servers are

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 and Windows. Amanda server is a dedicated

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: 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