[CentOS] OT - Linux NAS for Windows Environment

[Craig White]

On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 09:10 -0800, Troy Engel wrote:
> Ed Morrison wrote:
> > I'm looking to find a Linux NAS solution for a Windows network.  Looking
> > into FreeNAS and OpenFiler.  Anyone using these or any other solution? 
> > Any comments/suggestions?
> 
> >From the longtime experience direction, be sure to figure out the
> snapshotting upfront; a good snapshot rotation can save you so much pain
> it's not funny; many commercial NAS (NetApp, SnapServer, EMC, etc) have
> this integrated. When looking at a DIY linux NAS, you may have to roll
> it up.
> 
> We snapshot roughly like so: [8a,12p,4p M-F] [nightly 2 nights
> retention] -- this setup is enough to provide instantanious file restore
> without having to deal with the backups. (classic "hey IT, I deleted a
> file last night...")
> 
> Personally I've used rdiff as a snapshot-esque tool and it works pretty
> well, but not very good when the underlying link dies; it's not the
> exact right tool. rsnapshot is also in the same vein, but again it's not
> quite the exact snapshot type of thing that a NetApp provides. I bet
> there are better choices out there...
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OK - I'm intrigued...any references about snapshots?

This may prove useful

Craig