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

["Jerry Farquhar" <jerry@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Space on another server??  Are you referring to hard drive storage space or
backup from one server to another?

Not sure if this is something that may be along the lines of what your
referring to or not but..

We have a hand full of Raq3/4's at a Co-Lo and needed a arrangement were we
could backup our data.  We ended up using a Quantum Snap Server and
configuring it and the RAQ's with NFS hard mounted connection over the
secondary NIC and a mini-hub so as not to generate any additional bandwidth
usage or fee's from the Co-Lo operator.

I'm sure you could use a wide range of NAS server appliances from a variety
of vendors.

Jerry

-----Original Message-----
From: cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Greg Hewitt-Long
Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 5:29 PM
To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] NAS as additional/secondary storage?


>"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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