[Hidden-tech] backing up a FreeBSD server

[Andrew Bellak]

Dear HT,

Our saga continues.  Our tech dude says that JungleDisk online backup 
may not play well with a FreeBSD server.

We'd appreciate any help/feedback on this.

Thanks,
Andrew

	

	

	

	

	

	

	

"Jungle Disk and Amazon S3 should present absolutely no problem for your 
windows server. But, the FreeBSD server is another story altogether. One 
way to deal with it would be to basically dump the FreeBSD server's data 
to the Windows server, then upload the mess to Jungle Disk. There are 
other ways I am sure also. Apparently JungleDisk's scripts used to work 
fine on FreeBSD, then they upgraded and now they don't work so well.

Keep in mind the data numbers I gave you and that you see in your tape 
library just represent data - critical configuration data as well as 
docs, spreadsheets and the like - but they do not contain all operating 
system data nor can they be so what is known as a cold bare metal 
restore could be accomplished with only that data.

Right now, if your servers crashed, I or someone like me would need to 
reload the operating systems from disk, get them going and then add back 
the recovered data and configurations. Bare metal restore is certainly 
faster/better, but requires considerable planning, work, and testing to 
accomplish the goal.

I'd also want to investigate just what is available and makes sense for 
FreeBSD before embarking on anything."
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