[Lvlug] FreeNAS

[Caleb Shay]

On 6/12/07, scott piccotti <scott.piccotti at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/12/07, Caleb Shay <caleb at webninja.com> wrote:
> > I use Openfiler in production at our office.  I have a tape drive
> > hanging off it to back it up, but you could easily back it up with
> > rsync since it already has rsync and ssh installed on it.
> [...openfiler, rsnapshot, iSCSI, etc. etc...]
>
> Freakin' sweet! That sounds like exactly the kind of thing I was
> looking for. Now if I can throw something together for under $800,
> I'll look like a hero. Thanks for your input. I may have more
> questions for you in a day or two.
>
> What kind of tape drive are you using, if I may ask? My old12/24 DAT
> has seen better days.

I'm using a SuperDLT 320 with a 7 tape changer.  Openfiler (or at
least the version I'm running) doesn't come with mtx installed, so
prepare to start swearing at this 'package manager' they have called
Conary.  It's all based on RPath Linux, so rpath.com is a good place
to start.

Cheers,

Caleb