Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 6 Sep 2002 12:41:21 -0400 (EDT) | From | Mike Dresser <> | Subject | Re: ide drive dying? |
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On 6 Sep 2002, Billy Harvey wrote:
> use the LAN more. On the LAN put the money into a quality shared > resource - a heavy duty UPS'd, etc. RAID system. Especially if a RAID > system is as easy to build/maintain/use as Alan alludes to (don't know - > never built one). > > Billy
And don't forget the cost of cluebats to beat the users over the head with. I've been trying for 3 years to get people to save their documents to the H: drive. Still find stuff stored wherever they feel like storing it.
So each facility has a backup server that nightly grabs their entire drive, gzip's it, and then dumps it to a DDS-4 tape. Also keeps X days of daily full backups, and X weeks as well.
Aside from Windows filesharing being so slow(1500kps via smbtar is average here), it works quite nicely. Even with a P4/2.53, I still can't get more than the 1500kps that a p133 is capable of. All the p4 gives me, is the ability to gzip -9 or even bzip2 the files, instead of the gzip -1 that the p133 is capable of in real time.
Mike
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