Ok, this is definitely the kind of feedback I was looking for..... I'll have to check out the docs on these technologies it looks like. Appreciate it.
I figured I would load balance the hosts with a Cisco device, since I can get around the IOS ok. I want to offer a online backup service that provides high availability. Check out the following concept : http://blog.backblaze.com/2009/09/01/petabytes-on-a-budget-how-to-build-cheap-cloud-storage/ I like their basic idea, but they are in the market of $5/month unlimited. I want to take this to the next level. While this solution provides fault tolerance for drive failures, it does not seem to have a safeguard for if terrorists bomb one of your servers. So I figured ZFS would take care of the soft RAID, encryption (for compliance), dedup, and that kind of neat stuff. I'm still not 100% on how we're going to give access to the storage. I had thought about using RSync or DFS/RDC for Win hosts. VPN for encrypted transfer if needed. Would avoid CIFS probably. I guess a couple minute delay in the replication is ok, if the backup management software is smart enough to say.... wtf.... get over it, and retransmit the file again without user intervention. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
