Charlie Russel built himself a SAN using hardware he had lying around and
Starwind iSCSI software. You might start a new thread and hope to catch
some more input from him on how to do SAN on a budget.
"Jack" <> wrote in message
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On Nov 30, 1:14 pm, "Dave Nickason [SBS MVP]"
<gwdib...@NOSPAM.frontiernet.net> wrote:
> This seems like a situation the customer should throw some pretty good
> money
> at. I would either look at a Windows Storage Server box, or an iSCSI SAN.
> Maybe put a couple of hot spare drives in there so you don't have to
> monitor
> it every day. Then use a robocopy script, 3rd party app like Beyond
> Compare, or manually archive files as they are no longer needed on the
> main
> server. Do the archive on a schedule, then do a backup or two out to
> external drives or whatever for offsite. If you have good backups of the
> data right after archiving, you won't need to back up daily or otherwise,
> until the next time you archive. You can configure the permissions so that
> only certain trusted users can access the data - if you need an archived
> file, you have to ask for it. That'll minimize the possibility of someone
> adding data without doing a new backup, or of accidentally deleting
> something.
>
> I wouldn't trust tape or shiny media for this. Aside from the annoyance of
> burning this amount of data, IMO you really can't trust it to be readable
> when you need it.
>
> "Bill Sanderson" <bill_sander...@msn.com.plugh.org> wrote in message
>
> news:EAB57E32-7942-40BD-94FE-...
>
> > How stringent are the security requirements around access to those
> > archived files? One inexpensive way to add storage (with redundancy
> > protection) to an SBS network is a Windows Home Server. Compare the
> > costs
> > and benefits of this to your NAS idea.
>
> > The WHS can't be joined to the domain, so the security model is very
> > simple--10 users. Aside from that, the ability to add very inexpensive
> > storage to the network is very useful--and that ignores the benefit you
> > might gain from workstation (or server) backup.
>
> > "Jack" <dontaskwhoiam2...@gmail.com> wrote in message
> >news:c41aef6e-38a9-4467-b95c-...
> >> On Nov 30, 11:48 am, "Cris Hanna [SBS - MVP]"
> >> <crisnospamha...@cpunospamservices.net> wrote:
> >>> When you say "archived" the real question would be how often would
> >>> accessed and how quickly would they need to get them if they did need
> >>> them.
>
> >>> --
> >>> Cris Hanna [SBS - MVP] (since 1997)
> >>> Co-Contributor, Windows Small Business Server 2008
> >>> Unleashedhttp://www.amazon.com/Windows-Small-Business-Server-Unleashed/dp/0672...
> >>> Owner, CPU Services, Belleville, IL
> >>> A Microsoft Registered Partner
> >>> ------------------------------------
> >>> MVPs do not work for Microsoft
> >>> Please do not submit questions directly to me.
>
> >>> "Jack" <dontaskwhoiam2...@gmail.com> wrote in
> >>> messagenews:71bbae03-dc81-4852-8dec-...
> >>> Hello all,
>
> >>> The client is an engineering/consulting firm. They have tons of
> >>> drawing and picture files saved on SBS. And they do not want to resize
> >>> the pictures at all. Disk quota policies are not suitable for them
> >>> either.
>
> >>> The SBS' 400GB data partition is kind of full. I will installed 2
> >>> mirrored 600GB hard drives to create a 600GB data partition tomorrow.
> >>> But I am concerned that the 600GB new space can be quickly filled up
> >>> too.
>
> >>> They have lots old files that can be archived to release space from
> >>> SBS, I think it can be up to 200GB. How do you archive them if you are
> >>> in my position?
>
> >>> Here are some solutions I can think of
> >>> - Burn them onto discs
> >>> But this can be a lot of work and discs can be scratched
> >>> - Transfer them onto a USB hard drive
> >>> But hard drives are fragile, it can be damaged. The contents on it
> >>> can be deleted or modified accidentally.
> >>> - Setup a NAS box to hold archived files
> >>> But it can be stolen or damaged.
>
> >>> Any one can shed me some lights?
>
> >>> Thanks
> >>> Jack
>
> >> Thanks Cris!
>
> >> Those old files that can be archived do not need to be accessed often,
> >> maybe only once every a few weeks or even longer. When they need to
> >> access them, it would be better to make them available within hours.
Thanks Dave!
If i have to choose, I would prefer a SAN, I will check how expensive
it is. Hot spares do not work here, because the main server has no
more hard drive slots available.
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