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On 19:31 Mon 22 Mar , Mark Schoonover wrote: |
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> >Also, this is slightly off topic, but I figured it's a good |
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> >time to ask. |
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> >How do ya'll manage your storage? Do you use NAS', SANs', or direct |
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> >attached storage? |
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At the other end of the scale (the original poster has only 2 servers |
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with limited disk space) is "net-misc/rdiff-backup". I am backing up 5 |
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machines (only about 40G) nightly to an 80G harddrive. Love it. |
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I have no offsite storage, but I would look at some sort of removable |
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HD solution if I needed that. Simple, fast. No tape rotations, I have |
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snapshots for the last thirty days, restores are simple enough a user |
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could do them. Even a full restore is easy using a livecd. |
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For ten years I listened to the horrors of restoring from tape (I'm |
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an instructor). At Digex, I saw tape run amok. Lots of tape, millions |
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of dollars, no real security, in my experience. |
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Where possible, I follow the KISS principle. That, to me, means |
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avoiding tape. |
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Bill Roberts |
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