Re: [cobalt-users] NAS as additional/secondary storage?

[Greg Hewitt-Long <cobaltusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>"Greg Hewitt-Long" <cobaltusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Has anyone ever linked up a NAS or used NFS across a local
>> network (preferably using the 2nd NIC) to provide storage to a RAQ?
>
>I've done it via NFS via our internal network.
>
>> possibly a couple of RAQs with 2 x 60Gb or 80Gb drives
>
>If you're simply looking for storage space accessible via the network,
>unless you have the RaQs already and have no other use for them, you're as
>well off (or better) using something Pentium class machines with low RAM and
>large drives running something like Red Hat 7.3 and minimal services.  It
>would certainly be a lot less expensive, probably as effective and more
>secure everything else being equal.  But then again, I'm a big fan of old
>ugly hardware.  ;-)


I should have said that the backup and the network storage don't need to be RAQ/Qube/Cobalt or anything else in particular - the only thing that I'm concerned about, is that it's not my data-center, so we pay for space by the U - so I'm wanting to put all of the backup and network storage in 2U if possible (yes, and 1U case would do, as would PIII and a low amount of CPU hz and RAM).

I have actually found a data-center where I might put this little setup on Qubes - they will charge the same for an upright server as 1U - I asked about putting 4 Qube3 machines into a stripped out server chassis and their response was if it's the same space as the server, it counts as 1 server (transfer across their network billed separately).

Perhaps I should have made it clearer - my problem isn't the backup (that's a doddle across any network) - the thing I'm most interested in is using space on a secondary box across the network for virtual sites - has anyone got that working without any serious headaches?

tia

Greg
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