On Fri, 2007-07-06 at 15:29 -0700, Atom Powers wrote:
> I'm considering moving my bacula serve from a FreeBSD box to a CentOS 
> one, in the hopes of getting better driver support for the hardware I'm 
> using.

I imagine to get Linux binary-only blackbox firmware upgrade utilities
for the tape drive.  Things that use linux specific SCSI APIs in the
kernel.  Vendors love that stuff.

You can probably move only the SD to the CentOS Box.  FreeBSD/amd64 7.x
will be the premier PostgreSQL platform, and you'll want your director
running close.

~BAS

> 
> What are the potential pitfalls? Is it realistic to expect to recover 
> data from tapes written under FreeBSD?
> 
-- 
Brian A. Seklecki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Collaborative Fusion, Inc.




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