> (I am cross posting to FreeBSD questions and Bacula Users, I will not be > cross posting replies) > > I've been crying for four years that we needed a decent backup system > and I always got put off. "It's on order", "can you resubmit an updated > equipment list". Yea, checks in the mail. > > So yesterday I am told that we have some equipment we got in another > deal and I can have it to backup my NOC. I plan to run Bacula which I > already have on some individual machines. I want to have Bacula clients > on all my machines talking to a single machine running the Bacula > director, hopefully using the NAS machines for storage. > > This is the equipment they threw at me, it is old, but amazingly, unused. > > One Dell Poweredge 750, 2.8ghz CPU, 1gb ram, 2 500gb SATA Maxtor > drives(yuk!), CERC SATA controller. > > Two Dell Powervault 725N, 2.0ghz CPU, 512mb ram, 2 480gb Drives. One of > these machines has a SATA controller. > > I would really rather have SCSI, I've changed a deskdrawer full of SATA > drives in the past 12 months(literally). But, we use what we can get, > beats nothing. > > My questions! I will install FreeBSD on the Poweredge. Should I, could > I, install FreeBSD on the Powervaults? I've no experience with them. If > they are stable, I would just as soon plug them in and let them go. > > They will be behind the PIX and on a seperate network (1gb) connected to > the backside of each server. The Powervaults will do nothing but export > NFS mounts for the Bacula director to write backup files to. > > 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 > > DAve > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files > for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes > searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642 > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid3432&bid#0486&dat1642 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
