> On Dec 4, 2014, at 12:18 PM, Ian Lord <lo...@msdi.ca> wrote: > >> Dunno about prices in .ca but south of your border $5K will buy you a >> 36+2-bay chassis where you could keep a whole lot of zfs snapshots. >> Probably 72+2 even. What's your planned retention period? > >> Dima > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > I know I am going against the trend as everyone is talking about using HD as > a backup device, but we are looking as something "my life will depend on". If > we were to loose data, we would end up with a multi-million dollars law suit > and we'll just go bankrupt. > > As we are a SAAS solution, everything is already redundant, we can drop a > plane in one of our datacenter and customer won't even notice (technically > speaking) as everything is load balanced and replicated live across the sites. > > We have very high security with loadbalancers, IDS, DDOS protection, etc. > > But let say a hacker would manage to get in and play around, or even an angry > employee, or... > A simple "rm -r /" and all of our protection is gone. Our 2 distant copies > and the zfs snapshots also... > > It's kinda hard for a hacker to format all the tapes in a library > furthermore, some tapes will be put in a safe... > > I love the idea of using HD, so simple, cheap and fast, but if you need > absolute peace of mind, I think a tape backup is much more reliable in this > sense in my opinion. > > That's why I'm trying to see if bacula could be a good solution in our > scenario. > > Thanks
I use both ZFS and tape for backups. I back to disk, then copy to tape. The disk backups are there and used first. I only go to tape if there is a problem with the disk. You’d want to do tape verifies each night I would suspect. — Dan Langille http://langille.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=164703151&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
