RE: Data compression on the filer - toasters

22 Jun 2001


      We have a lot of data that users need to store on the filer, but may not 
need on a daily basis.  I'm just trying to find, space saving measures.
-Eddie
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From: Michael Rogan mrogan@rim.net
To: "'joe.luchtenberg@data-line.com'" joe.luchtenberg@data-line.com, 
"'edwardlee60@hotmail.com'" edwardlee60@hotmail.com, 
"'toasters@mathworks.com'" toasters@mathworks.com
Subject: RE: Data compression on the filer
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 12:12:43 -0400
Edward,
What are you trying to accomplish? Backup, multiple users, online, etc.
We are both making assumptions about what the end goal is.
-- We would all be crawling if we just stuck with what we know.
MJR

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-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Luchtenberg joe.luchtenberg@data-line.com
To: 'Michael Rogan' mrogan@rim.net; 'edwardlee60@hotmail.com'
edwardlee60@hotmail.com; 'toasters@mathworks.com' 
toasters@mathworks.com
Sent: Fri Jun 22 11:37:51 2001
Subject: RE: Data compression on the filer
Yes SMB=CIFS and the Linux box solution will work in his environment, but 
if
he doesn't have any Unix expertise, what sense does it make to add Linux
into his data center?  Who would admin the box?
In keeping with the NetApp approach to life, simple is good.  Stick with
what you know -- NT.  Try winzip.  You could probably write some scripts to
largely automate the process.
Joe
Joe Luchtenberg
Dataline, Inc.
757-858-0600
757-285-1223 (mobile)
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-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Rogan [mailto:mrogan@rim.net]
Sent: Friday, June 22, 2001 10:56 AM
To: 'edwardlee60@hotmail.com'; 'toasters@mathworks.com'
Subject: Re: Data compression on the filer
SMB=CIFS.
I'm sorry to hear about your NT problem :-).
MJR

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-----Original Message-----
From: Edward Lee edwardlee60@hotmail.com
To: toasters@mathworks.com toasters@mathworks.com
Sent: Fri Jun 22 10:12:10 2001
Subject: Re: Data compression on the filer
Hey Micheal, thanks for the suggestion.  Unfortunately we don't have a 
Linux
box and we're running only CIFS sessions on the filer, we're an all NT 
shop.
any other suggestions?
-Eddie
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From: Michael Rogan mrogan@rim.net
To: "'edwardlee60@hotmail.com'" edwardlee60@hotmail.com,
"'toasters@mathworks.com'" toasters@mathworks.com
Subject: Re: Data compression on the filer
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 09:12:03 -0400
You could use a Linux box to mount the filer with NFS or SMB. Create a
file
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that would be used as the compressed (or encrypted) filesystem on the
filer.
Use a special mount program to do the compression and to mount the
filesystem.
Then export the filesystem from the Linux box as NFS and/or SMB.
MJR

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-----Original Message-----
From: Edward Lee edwardlee60@hotmail.com
To: toasters@mathworks.com toasters@mathworks.com
Sent: Fri Jun 22 07:24:53 2001
Subject: Data compression on the filer
I was told that there is no native tool on the filer that compresses data
on
the volumes (like you would on a hard drive)
Is there any 3rd party utils that anyone has encountered that can do
this?
...
Otherwise, I was thinking I would just use winzip as someone from netapp
suggested.
-Eddie
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