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stueng

stueng

stueng

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I have a customer, small company of 8 people but will be growing to at least 15 in the near future. At the moment there is a windows domain and handfull of servers all running on various physical machines with local storage. The backup solution is external USB drives.

the company is a reseller, one that wants to start offering IT services to companies of a smilar size to itself; as such it wants its internal IT infrastructure to mimic that of a typical customer it might support in the future

My first point of call is going to be putting in 2 X HP DLXXX G7 servers to act as vSphere boxes and shared storage

Now, its the shared storage I need help with, I come from an enterprise background, I usually have NetApp FAS3000 series filers.. which is obviously too much for this litle company

So, what do you guys suggest? NetGear Ready NAS Pro seems like an obvious choice, I dont like the fact that its only got 2 x 1GB ports (I will be booting from NAS)

Other options I have looked at are Synology and D-Link, synology is priced right but I dont see any support for snapshots and dont really understand how their backup products work. D-Link seem more expensive than NetGear

discuss? :)
 
stueng said:
Other options I have looked at are Synology and D-Link, synology is priced right but I dont see any support for snapshots and dont really understand how their backup products work. D-Link seem more expensive than NetGear

discuss? :)
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Synology backup works well - I have two for my business. One is the primary and there is a scheduled job to copy everything to the secondary. You can also use Rsync, it's a little old but this is a good guide:

http://forum.synology.com/wiki/inde...r_to_a_remote_Synology_server_or_RSync_Server
 
can you elaborate a bit more on your non-rsync backup? how does it work, how you set it up? GUI driven? block level?
 
oh sorry I am reading your link now I mis-understood; the link you provided does include the information I need

thanks
 
drakioned said:
What about a HP Microserver with 2nd network card?
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I can get hold of servers, np. I could build a NAS using OpenFiler or Ubuntu+MDADM but can you imagine managing 20 customers with ad-hoc, self made NAS's which all need to be patched and monitored? Going with an off the shelf NAS bring the benefit of simplicity and managability as well as some kind of support from the manufacturer
 
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