In a message dated: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 20:57:20 EDT
John Abreau said:
>I'd have to agree with this. Once you get past the sticker shock, the
>NetApp appliances are awesome.
I didn't really think they were that expensive considering what they
do, and the amount of storage they scale to.
>I found them to be fast and reliable, and the snapshot feature is a lifesaver.
Ahhh, it is a lifesaver, but the real trick is to *not* let your user
base know about the snapshot feature. That way you can appear even
more magical and mystical to them when you recover a file from 3 days
ago within minutes of the request.
Or, you recover it immediately, but don't tell them you have the file
for 3 days, and let them know the amount of pain and agony you went
through in order to restore their file from backups ;)
>If I recall correctly, the system retains 7 hourly and 7 nightly
>snapshots by default. So you can always recover a file to its
>previous state from 1 hour ago, 2 hours, etc, and 1 day ago, 2 days ago,
>etc.
This is also completely configurable.
My only complaint about the NetApps was that their OS, OnTap, was
based on an older version of BSDI UNIX, and their /etc/exports file
didn't have the options I wanted never mind the amount of flexibility
that Linux's /etc/exports allows!
For example, you could export to a list of IPs, hostnames, or
netgroups. But you could only explicitly deny exports to a
list of IPs, which I found really annoying.
And their were no options for (no_)root_squash and many of the other
really neat features Linux has.
Other than though, they're great!
--
Seeya,
Paul
--
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but I'm really actively waiting for all my problems to go away.
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