On 29 November 2010 10:54, Arthur Chance <free...@qeng-ho.org> wrote:
> On 11/29/10 09:56, Frank Bonnet wrote: > >> Would it be safe to use a FreeBSD + ZFS based machine to build >> a backups server to store sensitive data ? >> >> In a word is FreeBSD + ZFS stable and mature ? >> > > That's a regular theological debate round here, and some people will say > yes, and others an emphatic no. I'm personally happy with ZFS raidz, others > prefer UFS + mirroring + journalling. > > Speaking with far too many years of experience as a sysadmin, no single > backup solution is ever truly adequate. You want off site backups as well as > on site. For the off site backups, take a look at tarsnap: > > http://www.tarsnap.com/ > > -- > "Although the wombat is real and the dragon is not, few know what a > wombat looks like, but everyone knows what a dragon looks like." > > -- Avram Davidson, _Adventures in Unhistory_ > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > It does all come down to risk analysis. In my experience company politics have far to much influence on this than I like. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"