On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 11:30:42PM -0500, Frank Smith wrote: > --On Wednesday, October 15, 2003 23:53:13 -0400 Jon LaBadie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > I'm working with someone who has a situation reversed from > > what I am accustomed, a single Solaris system that needs > > to be backed up to a PC network. > > By 'PC', are you implying MS Windows, or are there PC Linux > hosts on the network? >
A follow-up to my original query now that I have more info. Found out today that the storage to which the client refered is a "Snap Server" brand of NAS. It was configured only to do SMB protocol. However I quickly got them to add NFS protocol to the server. And as usual, an NFS connection worked immediately with Solaris. So, now I can mount the storage. New question. Has anyone used the file:driver, and possibly the change-multi script, to implement an disk based backup system where the storage is accessed through an NFS mount. I tried some throughput checks today. Test one was a "cp -r" of a directory tree with 8.5GB (only a few large files) and test two was a ufsdump of a 1GB partition. Both gave between 3 and 3.5MB/sec rates to the NFS device. That certainly is higher than the 1MB/sec I get to tape, but quite a bit lower than the rate to a local disk. jon -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
