On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 11:14 AM, John Drescher<drescherjm AT gmail DOT com> 
wrote:
> 2009/9/1  <ict AT panterra DOT nl>:
>> Dear Bacula users,
>>
>> I am looking for a backup solution for our company and found bacula on the 
>> net.
>> We use a linux (centos 4.4) server running samba to serve our domain and 
>> windows clients.
>> At the moment I have an Iscsi network storage of 4 TB and use the rsync 
>> commands (in a neat script) to create a backup of the drive.
>> This script excludes the samba Recycle bins.
>> since we are growing out of our current data store :-o I would like to buy 
>> an 13 TB (raid 6 + hotspare) sata das unit. However using my current script 
>> would need me to have  8 x 13 x 1TB = 104 backup disks :-o, this ofcourse is 
>> not an option. my idea would be a full backup on monday and a incremental 
>> every day to a single 1TB or 2TB drive.
>>
>> I would like to have a backup scheme of -Monday -Tuesday -Wednesday 
>> -Thursday Friday1 and Friday2 or so, with minimal amount of external disk to 
>> swap.
>> It would also be important that the data can be stored in a fire safe.
>>
>> Can bacula provide me this system, and would this be a good solution ?
>> Or does bacula provides another solution better for this problem?
>>
>
> I would get a LTO3 or LTO4 tape archive for around $7000 US. With that
> you can have faster backups than disk and unlimited storage.
>
> John

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