OT - Linux NAS for Windows Environment

[mail-lists at karan.org (Karanbir Singh)]

Les Mikesell wrote:
>>>>>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.
>>>
>>>
>>>I think there are still problems with LVM2 snapshots.  
>>
>>we're hoping to see a major improvement in that situation ( lvm2 / 
>>kernel 2.6 / snapshots ) with the CentOS 4.3 release. not too far now :)
> 
> 
> Do you know if it is possible to image-copy a snapshot off
> to another system?  A backuppc archive contains so many hardlinks
> that normal copy techniques are not practical.  I currently
> raid-mirror to external firewire drives that are rotated offsite
> periodically, but it would probably work better to freeze an
> LVM snapshot and copy that instead.
> 

hi Les,

you can reverse mount and add-as-share the snapshot, over whatever 
service you like ( smb, ftp, http-web-dab, nfs ) and backup using 
whatever means you like.

- K

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