Re: backup systems for OpenBSD

[Chuck Yerkes <chuck+obsd_(_at_)_2003_(_dot_)_snew_(_dot_)_com>]

You are backing up 3 terrabytes?  20 GB?  1 machine?  40?

I like my DDS4 changer.  Cheap, slow, home use (or night use).

At the office, my choice has been big freaking netapp (snapshots,
yumm) and a tape 'bot.

I tend towards SCSI tape drives.  External SCSI tape drives.  Then
they can be easily put onto another machine if the server it backs
up dies.

After you backup,  be sure to try to recover something.  I've seen
too many times when those backups turned out to not be actually
working and the person's life turns to shit.

Quoting Joe Szedula (szedula_(_at_)_mindspring_(_dot_)_com):
> I'm trying to setup backup system for my office server and was wondering 
> what hardware I could use. The "OpenBSD/i386" hardware pages shows only:
> 
> Tape Drives
> - Most SCSI tape drives
> - Most SCSI tape changers
> - QIC-02 and QIC-36 format (Archive- and Wangtek- compatible) tape drives
> 
> Is this list complete? Are there other tape drives that can be used? For 
> example how about Sony AIT IDE tape drives? Are there any other IDE tape 
> drives that work?
> 
> What other backup hardware works with OpenBSD (3.2) that folks would 
> recommend? 
> 
> What should I stay away from?