multi TB storage

[Daniel Robitaille]

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 10:56 AM, Chan Chung Hang Christopher
<christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk> wrote:
> Daniel Robitaille wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 12:13 AM, Christopher Chan
>> <christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk> wrote:
>>> Anybody at all using Ubuntu to handle large numbers of disks?
>>
>> define large :)
>
> :-D
>
>>
>> I use Ubuntu on a Dell system with 8 internal disks, and 15 disks in
>> one external storage shelf, for a total of roughly 12TB.  For me
>> that's relatively large; for someone else, that would be small...
>>
>>
>>
>
> That is kind of what I am looking for. I will be building something that
> will eventually take 36 disks and just wondered if anyone at all uses
> Ubuntu to any serious storage.
>
> I will be running a Windows 2008 guest to boot too while also doing the
> job of a file server, I am currently mulling over backup possibilities
> and whether to run hardware raid or software raid. Backup wise, I kind
> of need half hourly snapshot capabilities (can't have kids/teachers lose
> their last hour of work...) but it does not seem that that will be
> possible with Ubuntu or at least I have not heard anything in this
> regard. That requirement does not apply to the Windows 2008 guest.
>

I use hardware Raid on that Dell server with a Dell PERC6/e card.  For
an simple way to setup a snapshot system in Ubuntu, you can use
rsnapshot from the Ubuntu repositories.






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Daniel Robitaille