I've finally decided that I need to do something about network backup. I've been incredibly lucky, but I'm old enough to realize that probably won't last forever. Bacula looks like the way to go, so I'm diving in.
I picked up a pair of DLT7000 drives off eBay, and went diving in the boneyard for parts. It looks like I've got an Adaptec 29160 to drive the tape drives and a 36GB hard drive, an Athlon (around 2GHz), a half gig of RAM, and a surprisingly clean case big enough to hold it all. (Alas, I blew out the power supply during Fedora Core 5 installation, larger PS arrives tomorrow for the next try.) I mention this because I didn't find anything related to capacity issues on the bacula.org website. I'll want to backup my own stuff (two smallish servers, my XP machine, two Macs), my web servers, and then I've got some clients who would really enjoy having their systems backed up remotely. Is my proposed hardware a laughable toy? Or can I really accomplish a fair amount with this, and presumably move to a loader when the volume requires it? Also, I'm no expert but I'm under the impression that PostgreSQL is the more robust option for a database, and this is definitely a case where reliability is more important than speed. Is there a significant and specific advantage of PostgreSQL or MySQL in this project? Van -- ---------------------------------------------------------- Sign up now for Quotes of the Day, a handful of quotations on a theme delivered every morning. Enlightenment! Daily, for free! mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For photography, web design, hosting, and maintenance, visit Van's home page: http://www.domainvanhorn.com/van/ ----------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
