Hi Malcolm NetApp is the way to go for the data requirements you specified, they have of late been tapping into the SME market with Low spec fillers, which with 4-10GB per month i believe is a segment you fall in, contact Nicholas Dumba at Virtual Works in Kampala for help.
Cheers On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 10:43 AM, Noah Sematimba <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Feb 15, 2010, at 12:40 PM, Malcolm wrote: > > Hello Noah, > thanks for the response. to your reply, > 1- The data type is mainly docs, email (Lotus notes), psd, excel sheets, > Power point & a few config files (DNS, DHCP and others) > 2- Data is btw 4-10GB per mnth. > 3- Allowed downtime is 4-8 hrs. > 4- I also looking at incremental backup thou can welcme any recommended > ideas. > > > Depending on your budget, my first recommendation would be going for a > NetApp product. They will give you a system with hot swappable drives, > snapshot backups, support NFS and CIFS so that both your unix and windows > environments can use the same NAS, it can integrate into AD or NIS or any > central auth you use, etc. > > There are many other solutions out there. The site > http://www.nasdevices.com/ has a table that compares the various > solutions available and what features they support. > > Noah. > > _______________________________________________ > LUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > %LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. > --------------------------------------- > > > -- Dan +256-071-2-552035 "You won't have eyes tonight. You won't have ears or a tongue. you will wander the underworld blind, deaf and dumb and all the dead will know; This is Hector: the fool who thought he killed Achilles."
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