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[<je...@vi...>]

> (I am cross posting to FreeBSD questions and Bacula Users, I will not be=
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> cross posting replies)
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> I've been crying for four years that we needed a decent backup system=20
> and I always got put off. "It's on order", "can you resubmit an updated=
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> equipment list". Yea, checks in the mail.
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> So yesterday I am told that we have some equipment we got in another=20
> deal and I can have it to backup my NOC. I plan to run Bacula which I=20
> already have on some individual machines. I want to have Bacula clients=
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> on all my machines talking to a single machine running the Bacula=20
> director, hopefully using the NAS machines for storage.
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> This is the equipment they threw at me, it is old, but amazingly, unused.
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> One Dell Poweredge 750, 2.8ghz CPU, 1gb ram, 2 500gb SATA Maxtor=20
> drives(yuk!), CERC SATA controller.
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> Two Dell Powervault 725N, 2.0ghz CPU, 512mb ram, 2 480gb Drives. One of=
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> these machines has a SATA controller.
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> I would really rather have SCSI, I've changed a deskdrawer full of SATA=
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> drives in the past 12 months(literally). But, we use what we can get,=20
> beats nothing.
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> My questions! I will install FreeBSD on the Poweredge. Should I, could=20
> I, install FreeBSD on the Powervaults? I've no experience with them. If=
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> they are stable, I would just as soon plug them in and let them go.
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> They will be behind the PIX and on a seperate network (1gb) connected to=
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> the backside of each server. The Powervaults will do nothing but export=
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> NFS mounts for the Bacula director to write backup files to.
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> Any thoughts are welcome.

Why not put storage daemons on each system and you won't have to use NFS. I=
've experienced a lot of strange problems because of NFS mounts going stale=
.

/Jens

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