On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 5:31 AM, Timothy J Massey <tmas...@obscorp.com>wrote:
> "Tyler J. Wagner" <ty...@tolaris.com> wrote on 01/12/2012 04:53:49 PM:
>
> > So how about FreeNAS with BackupPC installed?
> >
> > http://harryd71.blogspot.com/search/label/backuppc
>
> Honest answer? My prejudice against non-Linux UNIX, especially with
> something as important as backup. I don't want to run into subtle issues
> that won't show themselves until I really, really need those backups...
> (That red text right up near the top of your link? *That* is what I'm
> talking about...)
>
> Which is why OpenFiler would be such a natural fit, if the current version
> didn't have serious bugs that haven't been fixed since April, and an
> upstream base that seems to be going away...
>
>
So it seems there isn't a perfect fit; IMO the closest would be Openfiler -
and if the newest version (which I haven't even looked at) doesn't suit,
the "final legacy" version hasn't IMO had any serious issues, won't be
getting and doesn't need any updating, so the rPath issue doesn't really
matter, it should just remain stable, just toss a BPC running in a VM on
top and you're done.
A more involved alternative would be to "reverse engineer" those components
you want from OF and just create a customized distro based on whatever
you're most comfortable with, e.g. an automated kickstart of CentOS should
serve well, and is a close analogue to the rPath environment anyway.
If the client really needs GUI management of the underlying OS, Ubuntu
might be a better fit, or maybe they deserve a windoze server, can VM a BPC
host on top of that as well.
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