On May 11, 2010, at 4:25 PM, Alan Epps wrote: > 1) If you have large (larger than two terabytes) file systems what are you > serving them from? (i.e. Mac XServ, NetApp, Sun/ZFS, ?)
Xserve attached to a NexSAN SATABeast. The part that's formatted HFS+ is about 14TB. > 2) If you meet the above criteria, how are you backing up the data on your > systems, and have you verified the backups (including the resource fork > structures)? We do disk-to-disk using a patched version of rsync 3 (not hard to compile). That preserves resource forks, ACLs, and other Mac-specific metadata. We tested it against Backup Bouncer (which I *highly* recommend when testing metadata preservation): http://www.n8gray.org/blog/category/projects/backup-bouncer/ The rsync scripts include a hard-linked snapshot component, so the incrementals don't take up a ton of room (we don't have a lot of churn in our data, though). I'm happy to provide links to our "notes to self" on how that all works. Jason -- Jason Healy | jhe...@logn.net | http://www.logn.net/ _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list Tech@lopsa.org http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
