Hi, I know some people are very enthousiastic about the Synology stuff.
And, eh, 3000-5000USD is a LOT of money. (taken from the nasdevices.com site) You can get cheaper solutions, i am sure. -- rgds, Reinier Battenberg Director Mountbatten Ltd. +256 758 801 749 www.mountbatten.net On Monday 15 February 2010 14:06:07 Daniel Bwente wrote: > 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. --------------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ 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. ---------------------------------------
