Re: [cobalt-users] Snap Server

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Jerry Farquhar wrote:

> Yes...
>
> Actually we have a Snap server that we have setup as a Hard Mount to one of
> our Raq3i's and use it for our daily backup.  It works great..  It took some
> time for us to figure out how to make the mount work properly and configure
> the backup to point to the correct location but with a small amount of
> effort it works great.
>
> ==snip==
>
> FYI - We are fortunate to have a NT server physically located at the
> co-location site and we have it setup to run a script every morning after
> the Cobalt's backup that moves the backup files to a directory out side of
> the mounted directory.  I'm sure the same could be accomplished with a
> script under Linux but for us it was quicker and easier to use the NT box
> for this task.
>
> If you don't move the backup files your backups will be backed up and so on
> an as such the size of the backups grows out of control quite quickly.

We are using SNAPs in the same way - using NT 4 Sp6a server onsite with a
script to move the Q3's baks to a diff dir  on the SNAP (not the hard drive
mounted live one)with great results - great minds think together :)

> ==snip==

cg