Re: iSCSI (revisited?)

From: Eric Anderson (anderson_at_centtech.com)
Date: 04/05/05

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    To: Justin Bennett <justin@z-axis.com>
    
    

    Justin Bennett wrote:
    > All,
    >
    > I was wondering what people thought of iSCSI and FreeBSD. Is it a viable
    > option for creating SANs?
    >
    > I want to move away from tape backups, and have numerous production
    > FreeBSD machines that I need to back up data from.
    >
    > Any other ideas for a disk to disk backup solution that people have used?

    You should check out rsnapshot. It does disk to disk backups either locally, or via ssh. I am using it to snapshot about 2TB of data to a 10TB (total) SAN, based on fiber channel. All FreeBSD backend, with assorted servers I'm backing up.

    Eric

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