I tell you whats fun to backup, which is still an ongoing process, is the ZFS pool on the freenas server I have setup. its a 32bit system and ZFS keeps crashing and is shit-unstable on a 32bit system. Really designed for 64 as i was reading around.
There is almost 7tb of data stored on that server alone, plus I have a couple more 2TB drives i want to add to RAID along with replacing the motherboard/CPU/RAM so i have been in the process of backing all that data up. NOT FUN...
as far as the data is concerned, its a huge mixture of stuff, for example mostly backup copies of all our discs, and every time we get a machine in for setup/repair, I rip the restore images off the system and toss em up on the storage array for safekeeping. Then theres music and movie libraries. software libraries, list goes on and on. not to mention backups of other peoples backups during repair jobs, etc... Most of that can be flushed though as thats probably about 2TB alone.
We just parted out and tossed a Dell/EMC AX150N iSCSI SAN storage array because where we got it, we had to wipe the hard disk drives for data security before we could get it.
So, I did that and well that was dumb. I didnt realize that one of hte drives contained the system configuration and boot image. Once i wiped that, it became a very expensive paperweight and there was nothing EMC/Dell could do. lovely. So i pulled out all 12 250GB sata drives and used them elsewhere.
There is almost 7tb of data stored on that server alone, plus I have a couple more 2TB drives i want to add to RAID along with replacing the motherboard/CPU/RAM so i have been in the process of backing all that data up. NOT FUN...
as far as the data is concerned, its a huge mixture of stuff, for example mostly backup copies of all our discs, and every time we get a machine in for setup/repair, I rip the restore images off the system and toss em up on the storage array for safekeeping. Then theres music and movie libraries. software libraries, list goes on and on. not to mention backups of other peoples backups during repair jobs, etc... Most of that can be flushed though as thats probably about 2TB alone.
We just parted out and tossed a Dell/EMC AX150N iSCSI SAN storage array because where we got it, we had to wipe the hard disk drives for data security before we could get it.
So, I did that and well that was dumb. I didnt realize that one of hte drives contained the system configuration and boot image. Once i wiped that, it became a very expensive paperweight and there was nothing EMC/Dell could do. lovely. So i pulled out all 12 250GB sata drives and used them elsewhere.