iSCSI (revisited?)

[John Pettitt]

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?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Justin
>
For disk-to-disk backup take a look at BackupPC (don't let the name fool
you it supports *nix clients).   The nice thing about BackupPC is it
does file pooling which saves *a lot* of space.

John