On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 02:21:51PM -0400, John Stoffel wrote: > The problem with a storage virtualization layer is backups. Or more > accurately, restores of a complete directory when it's spread across > multile backends. This was the Acopia model which we tried to make > work but failed. If you do backups through the DataDirector, then you > screw up your data again. If you do backups through the backends, > then you're going to have problems restoring your data.
I'd be curious hearing more about the Acopia/ARX. We're considering as we're working thru yet another NFS migration to expand our NFS capacity. Backoups/restores were something I was curious about in the real-world with it... -j _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
