On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 11:15:00AM +0200, Jonathan McKeown wrote: > On Thursday 21 February 2008 23:03, D G Teed wrote: > > > For example, no where in this have I heard a peep about backup > > software. Anyone serious about IT is serious about backup. Yet there > > is no support for EMC (Legato) Networker in FreeBSD, and this is why > > our organization is migrating away from this FreeBSD. > > Petty quibble: I suspect that you mean ``there is no support for FreeBSD in > EMC Networker'' rather than the other way round. Picking a backup solution > that can't back up some of your servers, and opting to fix the problem by > getting rid of the servers, seems to me to be doing things the wrong way > round - irrespective of which OS you're forcing yourself to get rid of. > > Of course, EMC Networker may be so much better than any other backup > solution as to justify the work involved in moving working services > to a different platform - I don't know Networker so I can't really > comment, although I agree with most of what you said about making > sure you pick a platform which supports what you're trying to do. > I say most because my own feeling as a sysadmin is that you must > have a very good reason to run more than the bare minimum range > of operating systems you can - which is an argument for moving > away from some platforms if you're already running several. I > am in the process of moving from multiple platforms, ranging > from Windows NT4, through e-smith (server-in-a-box based on > Red Hat), Debian, and FreeBSD, from 4.8 up to date. We are > aiming to end up with a bunch of FreeBSD boxes, all using > a standard build from a central buildserver, plus one or > two boxes running Windows Server 2003 supporting users, > who are all running Windows desktops and applications, > including apps which run on the server, with clients > connecting over the network. It's taken a while but > every time we get rid of an old box my workload in > supporting the rest of the system drops a little. > Note: I'm not saying everyone should standardise > on FreeBSD - that's just what I'm most familiar > with at the moment, and when I started to move > things round we had more FreeBSD servers than > anything else, so it made sense to pick that > and bring the rest into line, where we were > able to, especially because the other OSes > were mainly running on hardware which was > due for replacement soon anyway, so that > the migration could be seen as being in > the ordinary course of maintenance and > not extra load on busy systems staff. > > (Sorry: when I realised I'd started > my reply with a few lines which by > accident were tapering off at the > ends I couldn't resist trying to > see how long I could keep it up. > It's foolish, I know, but it is > a fun exercise in picking your > words carefully and yet still > trying to make sense. If you > aren't reading with a fixed > width font, you may not be > getting the effect of the > layout anyway: so if you > can't see it, I'm sorry > for taking up yet more > of your time, just to > play about with line > lengths and make up > pretty patterns in > your mail reader. > I'll stop now or > at least once I > can taper down > to the length > of the given > name I sign > off with). > > Jonathan > (Whew!)
I'm impressed. ////jerry > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
