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On Tue, 20 Sep 2011 07:19:18 +0700 |
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Pandu Poluan <pandu@××××××.info> wrote: |
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> > > Sounds like you need a SAN Storage solution like NetApp or HDS :-) |
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> > I have those options too. But the team that runs the SAN charges and |
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> > the rates are not cheap. |
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> Yeah, tell me about it. |
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> The day after we got our first NetApp array, the Finance Director |
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> demanded to know how we were going to recoup the cost >.< |
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> Then the next week, the company got its bacon saved when the |
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> production database got corrupted. We quickly mount the previous |
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> hour's snapshot, and averted an off day. Suddenly, the NetApp array |
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> became the company's most valuable asset. |
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> (Reading BOFH indeed opened up my team's unlimited resource of |
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> creativity ;-) ) |
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Ah, bean counters. Those fellows have an annoying habit of asking: |
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"Please tell me why I must spend a trifling amount of money (in |
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comparison to my own wages) on something that protects our major asset?" |
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I have found that cron and at provides the way to demonstrate exactly |
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why one must spend that money. |
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Alan McKinnnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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