On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 08:27:32PM +0000, Charlie von Metzradt wrote:
On 5 Mar 2009, at 20:15, Andrew Harford wrote:
Is it worth doing this?
I think so.
A couple of years ago, the plan/hope was to have one set of backups on our network, and another set in a different physical location.
Reasoning:
* Fast access to backups for recovery purposes - both in terms of network speed (yay, gig-e!) and physical access. * Easy to give users NFS access to their backups, no futzing about with VPNs or remote NFS mounts. * Remote backups are slower to access (network, physical) but physically safer as they're out of the building.
For 120 euro, I can't see why we wouldn't want to do this. It's up to you guys whether the work involved is worth the return.
The bottleneck with severus is that it's raid controller is garbage, and it's disks aren't much better. To put this in context the last full backup of /storage we did from minerva -> severus took about 42 hours (the nightly incremental types take ~6 hours generally) So, i'm not convinced that it'll be any slower over the network. In terms of work it should be fairly easy to setup, and not a huge effort to maintain. -- Andrew Harford System Administrator, DCU Networking Society Equipment Officer, Societies & Publications Committee If my calculations are correct, when this baby hits eighty-eight miles per hour ... you're gonna see some serious shit. --Doc Brown