Yep ,
i was ready to bet on it , but how do you want us to backup big netapps ?
i have around 2T of videos so it will take _a_lot_ of tapes , and time
to backup this .
I can always setup a linux nfs server and use ndmp to backup it by
a dedicated giga card , buts its a lot of complications .
I think backup is a real problem with current huge volumes and cheap ide
drives are cheaper than tapes (or close to the tapes) .
Cb
On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 11:07:41AM -0700, Fox, Adam wrote:
> The filer probably will not accept and it is certainly not supported to
> hook up any other
> RAID arrays to a filer. There is no device support for it.
>
> -- Adam Fox
> adamfox(a)netapp.com
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Constantin Bogomolnyi [mailto:const@carpediem.fr]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 1:42 PM
> To: toasters(a)mathworks.com
> Subject: best backup for netapps
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm wondering what is the best backup system for saving big netapps we
> have tried alot of solutions , but we finished by running 3 sets of
> netapp in snapmirror so A(master) replicates to B and C (slaves) all
> have now raid_dp enabled and spare around . So we have realtime B and C
> backups (we may cluster A and B) .
>
> But as its quite expensive "backup" i'm looking for some classic backup
> with tapes for example but i know from the past that tapes can be big
> pain to manage (specialy as we have around 2.5T of data on A)
>
> Anybody have some "tape backup" that realy works ?
>
> sub question : anybody have tried to attach a cheap ide raid shelf to
> scsi port of the netapp and use it as backup ?
>
> today its cheap to have 14x300 gig ide disk array with scsi port , so it
> could be better than tapes if its directly attached to the netapp , nan
> ?
>
>
> Best regards
> cb
>
>