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... hth, -te -- Troy Engel | Systems Engineer Fluid, Inc | http://www.fluid.com