On 2014-12-04 07:33 AM, Ian Lord wrote:
Hi,
We are looking for a solution to backup freebsd machine with large ZFS
pools (8TB)
We thought of purchasing a tape library with LTO6 drives which will
gives us 40TB of Retention
Everyone seems to indicate bacula as a good solution but when I look
at the documentation, it seems 10 years outdated:
http://blog.bacula.org/general/supported-autochangers/
I can’t complain because it’s open source and I really respect the
concept and know how documentation is hard to maintain, but I would
like to know if I can be safe to purchase a 7000$ library, a new
server running freebsd and that it will work. This is not the kind of
things I have sitting in my lab J
Is anyone running such a setup and can assure me it can be done
without too much customization and troubles. If I know it can be done
for a normal poweruser (I’m not a programmer that can modify source
code to fix things). I’ll invest time in learning and reading
documentation, but it will be a lot more reassuring to know people
done it before
Thanks
Bacula just talks to the command-line programs for your OS that deal
with the library. On Linux they are the mt-st programs. There's an
autochanger script which just calls the OS commands to query the library
and make it 'do stuff' so really what you are looking for is whether the
library is supported on FreeBSD - as long as you can script "change
tapes" "what tapes are in what slots" etc you will be good to go. The
default scripts work with most changers, though I had to make a couple
of tweaks for my IBM for instance.
Bryn
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