Backup server

[Nick Wolff]

Hello,

Does anybody have any recommendations for enterprise class servers to run backups to (using dump). Last gen hw for us doing this was a intel sr2500. We our currently on our own build of 8 stable but will be moving to 9 stable soon.(not sure if I want our backup server to be our first production 9 build though). We prefer turn key vendors so we can get good support contracts etc… But I am skilled enough to build this on my own if there vastly better case and board options going that path.

6 sata/sas 3.5in hotswap minimum(+ boot) 8 drives preferred (software raid.)
8x pcie 2.0 slot for Supermicro AOC-STGN-i2S (10gb ethernet controller)
Planning on 6 or 8 4tb constellation drives
Redundant Power supplies

I’m just looking for any experience anybody has with various hardware to figure out what is both going to work with freebsd and also what is going to be reliable with a good life span.

Thanks for the help,

Nick Wolff

Backbone Routing Engineer
OARnet
1224 Kinnear Road
Columbus, OH 43212
Phone: (614) 247-1517
Fax: (614) 292-9390
email: nwolff at oar.net