Re: Seeking recommendations for backup system
On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 08:28:49AM +0700, Olivier Nicole wrote: used with a decent sized tape library, probably LTO based, and FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE. Dunno what LTO is, my Amanda server is FBSD 4.3 Linear Tape Open. Some industry-standard-to-be that wants to replace DLT. -- | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlandsemail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |/|/ / / /( (_) BultePowered by FreeBSD/alpha http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
Re: Seeking recommendations for backup system
You should note that there *is* a NetWorker freebsd client for both i386 and alpha. But it's getting moldy. No, no server on FreeBSD yet. I'm seeking recommendation for a backup system (software) that can be used with a decent sized tape library, probably LTO based, and FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE. I'm sure we could roll our based on freely available tools (eg. Amanda) - but by now I'm used to Tivoli ADSM/TSM, and *like* the convenience ADSM/TSM offers. We need the ability to make backups (via Fast Ethernet) primarily of FreeBSD servers, but also Solaris, Linux and HP-UX. Easy restore is important. (So why not buy TSM again? Primarily the price. We'll do it if we have to, but would prefer something slightly less expensive and also less complex.) Any takers? Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-scsi in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
Re: Seeking recommendations for backup system
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm seeking recommendation for a backup system (software) that can be used with a decent sized tape library, probably LTO based, and FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE. I'm sure we could roll our based on freely available tools (eg. Amanda) - but by now I'm used to Tivoli ADSM/TSM, and *like* the convenience ADSM/TSM offers. We need the ability to make backups (via Fast Ethernet) primarily of FreeBSD servers, but also Solaris, Linux and HP-UX. Easy restore is important. Been using Amanda to backup a few FreeBSD 3.x, 4.x and Slowaris boxes, no problems; my drive is a 4xDDS2 python. There's an ftp-ish client for specifying files/dirs to restore which works OK, though it always takes me a little while to get used to the options I have to specify. Had to do a major restore when I lost an entire disk -- was *very* happy Amanda had been doing its thing, automatically, every night. :-) I like the fact that Amanda stores in a slightly enhanced dump format, just prepending a label to each tape, and a directory entry to each file. If you really lose everything, you can do some mt fsf to get to the right tape file, then a dd to skip the header, then finally a restore to copy the data to disk. I believe Legato uses a proprietary tape format so if you're hosed you have to restore Legato before you can restore the tape. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
Re: Seeking recommendations for backup system
On Thu, 24 May 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm seeking recommendation for a backup system (software) that can be used with a decent sized tape library, probably LTO based, and FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE. I'm sure we could roll our based on freely available tools (eg. Amanda) - but by now I'm used to Tivoli ADSM/TSM, and *like* the convenience ADSM/TSM offers. We need the ability to make backups (via Fast Ethernet) primarily of FreeBSD servers, but also Solaris, Linux and HP-UX. Easy restore is important. (So why not buy TSM again? Primarily the price. We'll do it if we have to, but would prefer something slightly less expensive and also less complex.) I just mentioned this to someone else who asked a similar question elsewhere, but Veritas NetBackup (NOT BackupExec -- different animal) has a native FreeBSD 3.2 agent that works very well on FreeBSD 3.2 and up (I use it with 4.3-STABLE at the moment). They've got backup agents for a whole mess of platforms. You can also use any combination of NT, Solaris, Linux, and HP-UX servers. You've pretty much got the run of the park on that one. :-) If you call up Veritas, they should be more than happy to send you a time-limited (90 days, IIRC) demo. I asked for one before we decided to buy it and they shipped the CDs and demo license keys to me next-day. :-) -- Chris Dillon - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS on the planet. For IA32 and Alpha architectures. IA64, PPC, and ARM under development. http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
Re: Seeking recommendations for backup system
Hi Steinar, I'm sure we could roll our based on freely available tools (eg. Amanda) - but by now I'm used to Tivoli ADSM/TSM, and *like* the convenience ADSM/TSM offers. We need the ability to make backups (via Fast Ethernet) primarily of FreeBSD servers, but also Solaris, Linux and HP-UX. Easy restore is important. Amanda works well, tho I did not had to check on restore yet :) I think the restore works a bit like retore(8) does. You select the files you want from a list then extract, and it will prompt you for the tapes (or get them from your tape charger). One good point, the user list is *active*, developpers do answer questions, even stupid questions that could be solved by RTFM (I did ask such question :) I had it compiled on FreeBSD (various flavors), Solaris (old, including SunOS 4.1). I heard there is issue with older Linux kernel. used with a decent sized tape library, probably LTO based, and FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE. Dunno what LTO is, my Amanda server is FBSD 4.3 According to a friend, best commercial would be by Veritas, tho their FreeBSD client is old (3.3). Best regards, Olivier To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
