wouldn't it be easier to just purchase more hard drives for your servers?fly said:No. I want it for backups of PCs and software installs, where it isnt critical that the files be there. I would also prefer that the file be copied to more than one PC for redundancy.
To get anything done around here, including getting storage, is retarded. All sorts of political wrangling. We have petabytes of storage, but none is easily available to me.itburnswhenipee said:Well, set up that mogfileFS thing on a linux box, configure a NSF client on each of your workstations, and go to town.
Alternately you could use a backup tape like the rest of the world.
yes, but see above.CletusJones said:wouldn't it be easier to just purchase more hard drives for your servers?
fly said:To get anything done around here, including getting storage, is retarded. All sorts of political wrangling. We have petabytes of storage, but none is easily available to me.
itburnswhenipee said:Ah... I see. You've mislead us. You presented this as a technical problem. Clearly it's a meatware issue.
that must be nice, we have no storage. they skimp on everything here.fly said:yes, but see above.
CletusJones said:Who puts a server in with only 200gb of disk? I mean, seriously?
Yeah, but storage is just as inaccessable for me as it is for you. I think I'm getting 2 300GB hard drives and a gigbit switch. All ordered because its way too damn hard to get space (its all mainframe space, DASD I think its called...)CletusJones said:that must be nice, we have no storage. they skimp on everything here.
They yelled at me because i have 4GB of backed up data on one of the network servers. They claim it was "taking up too much space so that branch personnell won't have enough space." Who puts a server in with only 200gb of disk? I mean, seriously?
I just work here. I had to fight for 6 months to get a replacement monitor because mine was so blurry I could barely read it.itburnswhenipee said:You tell us. You're the one who appears to work for them.
Wild. Our mainframe runs a SAN full of EMC drives and stores all its data there.fly said:Yeah, but storage is just as inaccessable for me as it is for you. I think I'm getting 2 300GB hard drives and a gigbit switch. All ordered because its way too damn hard to get space (its all mainframe space, DASD I think its called...)
Yeah, they will spend tens of millions of dollars on the mainframe side, but I'll be damned if I can get a terabyte of their storage...CletusJones said:Wild. Our mainframe runs a SAN full of EMC drives and stores all its data there.
edit: that's the only thing they didn't skrimp on
tell the branch personell to stop trying to back up thier entire hard drive every night like a bunch of retarted lemmings.CletusJones said:that must be nice, we have no storage. they skimp on everything here.
They yelled at me because i have 4GB of backed up data on one of the network servers. They claim it was "taking up too much space so that branch personnell won't have enough space." Who puts a server in with only 200gb of disk? I mean, seriously?
Set a setup password in the BIOS so they can't change anything. Thats what we do...Onnotangu said:bad idea. i have paranoid users..and I'm the only one with access to the data and those silly fucks still try to set bios passwords.
i hate people.
fly said:No. I want it for backups of PCs and software installs, where it isnt critical that the files be there. I would also prefer that the file be copied to more than one PC for redundancy.