Hey,
I was in your position not too long ago. a) we don't have the money to buy another netapp b) Engineering has been hounding IT for more space c) needed a cheap solution
We ended buying this :
http://www.promise.com/product/product_detail_eng.asp?productId=109&fami... There is also the new one VTrak 15100.
The UltraTrak RM15000 we purchased ran about $7K with all 15 drives included. (160gb each)
It's not a bad device as we have it plugged into a Dell Poweredge 2450 running windows 2000. Though I would rather have it plugged into a Linux machine...that might be further down the road.
You might wanna look into windows 2003 server with shadow copy though I don't know much about it at all. Maybe someone who has played with that feature will shed some light on this.
Of course it would be better to have another NetApp but I couldn't get this into our IT budget.
Jason T.
-----Original Message----- From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com]On Behalf Of devnull@adc.idt.com Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2004 11:14 AM To: NetApp Toasters List Subject: OT: Poor man's redundant storage
Dear Toasters,
I would like to poll all the poor people on the list who cant afford/justify the need for clusters and instead use other cheap solution to provide redundancy of their data.
Even a simple IDE-RAID solution, with some kind of heartbeat system...
I have a couple of netapp's here on-site and in the event of a disaster, where the RAID array's are lost and i need to rebuild from scratch, i would like to have someother system serving the data i need, albeit at much lower performance.
I do have a spares kit to help me recover from events like MoBo/Processor dying etc.
Thanks for your time,
One of my friends in Beijing who has an NetApp had the same issue and bought exactly the same unit... I didn't hear from him again so I guess this worked out out.
On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Jason Truong wrote:
Hey,
I was in your position not too long ago. a) we don't have the money to buy another netapp b) Engineering has been hounding IT for more space c) needed a cheap solution
We ended buying this :
http://www.promise.com/product/product_detail_eng.asp?productId=109&fami... There is also the new one VTrak 15100.
The UltraTrak RM15000 we purchased ran about $7K with all 15 drives included. (160gb each)
It's not a bad device as we have it plugged into a Dell Poweredge 2450 running windows 2000. Though I would rather have it plugged into a Linux machine...that might be further down the road.
You might wanna look into windows 2003 server with shadow copy though I don't know much about it at all. Maybe someone who has played with that feature will shed some light on this.
Of course it would be better to have another NetApp but I couldn't get this into our IT budget.
Jason T.
-----Original Message----- From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com]On Behalf Of devnull@adc.idt.com Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2004 11:14 AM To: NetApp Toasters List Subject: OT: Poor man's redundant storage
Dear Toasters,
I would like to poll all the poor people on the list who cant afford/justify the need for clusters and instead use other cheap solution to provide redundancy of their data.
Even a simple IDE-RAID solution, with some kind of heartbeat system...
I have a couple of netapp's here on-site and in the event of a disaster, where the RAID array's are lost and i need to rebuild from scratch, i would like to have someother system serving the data i need, albeit at much lower performance.
I do have a spares kit to help me recover from events like MoBo/Processor dying etc.
Thanks for your time,
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How are people getting data onto these systems? IE how are you copying your data to make these a redundant set?
Has any checked out Legato's DiskBackUp DBO option?
Joe
At 03:47 PM 2/3/2004, Maren S. Leizaola wrote:
One of my friends in Beijing who has an NetApp had the same issue and bought exactly the same unit... I didn't hear from him again so I guess this worked out out.
On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Jason Truong wrote:
Hey,
I was in your position not too long ago. a) we don't have the money to buy another netapp b) Engineering has been hounding IT for more space c) needed a cheap solution
We ended buying this :
http://www.promise.com/product/product_detail_eng.asp?productId=109&fami...
There is also the new one VTrak 15100.
The UltraTrak RM15000 we purchased ran about $7K with all 15 drives
included. (160gb each)
It's not a bad device as we have it plugged into a Dell Poweredge 2450
running windows 2000. Though I would rather have it plugged into a Linux machine...that might be further down the road.
You might wanna look into windows 2003 server with shadow copy though I
don't know much about it at all. Maybe someone who has played with that feature will shed some light on this.
Of course it would be better to have another NetApp but I couldn't get
this into our IT budget.
Jason T.
-----Original Message----- From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com]On Behalf Of devnull@adc.idt.com Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2004 11:14 AM To: NetApp Toasters List Subject: OT: Poor man's redundant storage
Dear Toasters,
I would like to poll all the poor people on the list who cant afford/justify the need for clusters and instead use other cheap solution to provide redundancy of their data.
Even a simple IDE-RAID solution, with some kind of heartbeat system...
I have a couple of netapp's here on-site and in the event of a disaster, where the RAID array's are lost and i need to rebuild from scratch, i would like to have someother system serving the data i need, albeit at much lower performance.
I do have a spares kit to help me recover from events like MoBo/Processor dying etc.
Thanks for your time,
-- /dev/null
devnull@adc.idt.com
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How are people getting data onto these systems? IE how are you copying your data to make these a redundant set?
I am using rsync to copy data to some cheap IDE drives for now.
My other concerns include how to get back to the netapp once things are fixed.
Some kind of heartbeart type software to do this automatically
Has any checked out Legato's DiskBackUp DBO option?
Nope. Must look at it.
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