On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 5:46 PM, Tom Metro <[email protected]> wrote: > I'd like to find a hardware/software setup that is optimized for backup > storage, rather than performance and redundancy. For example, a hardware > solution that allows attaching lots of hard drives, and hot-swapping > them. Software that treats hard drives as removable cartridges, > remembering what is stored on what disk. Similar to tape management, but > modernized for hard drives.
That sounds like a system I started to design and build years ago. It would also do HSM. To bad my 'black hole of data' system never got completed. Back in CP/M days I had a system that would track contents and meta-data about files stored on disks, but have never found one since. As drives get bigger programs and users just 'expect it to all be there all the time', but I don't find that to be necessary most of the time. ... Oh well. ... I too would like a system that you described above. -- ><> ... Jack "Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart"... Colossians 3:23 "Anyone who has never made a mistake, has never tried anything new." - Albert Einstein "You don't manage people; you manage things. You lead people." - Admiral Grace Hopper, USN "Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn." - Ben Franklin _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
