[Techtalk] The Ark

[Derek Arnold]

Have you thought about SAMBA as a possibility?

Derek


2/23/2002 7:14:04 PM, "James" <james at james-web.net> wrote:

>Hiya all.
>
>We have several web/SQL servers on our network.  
>
>What would be the easiest to create a system which would allow us to
>regularly backup and save the backup to another server? (I'll call the
>NFS server "The Ark"*)
>
>I was thinking NFS for it, but I was unsure of how to do it (in terms of
>architecture).  
>
>Should "The Ark" setup such that it mounts a drive on each server and
>then copies the information from the remote drive to its own?  Or should
>the remote copy to the The Ark?
>
>Or should the web/SQL servers mount a drive on "The Ark" and copy their
>stuff to "The Ark"?  Or should they a;; mount a drive on "The Ark" and
>have "The Ark" copy stuff off?
>
>(Basically it is a decision of who should mount or who and who should do
>the push/pull.  Omg I just realized how misconstrued that sentence could
>be).
>
>Right now I'm actually tar+gzing the stuff myself and copying it to my
>home computer, then burning it to CD.
>
>- James
>
>* Because we have the only server room in North America where flooding
>is sometimes an issue :)  The backups aren't because of this, it is just
>an inside joke and I think I find it a good classical reference :)
>
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