On 12/13/05, Brian D. McGrew <brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Good morning all: > > So we've got this recording studio and we've got somewhere around 200 > external hard drives ranging in size between 100GB and 300GB. When an > artist comes in, we plug their drive into the host, do the recording, > save it, unplug it and it's on to the next one. We've never had a drive > fail until yesterday and fortunately, I was able to quickly recover it > but it got me to thinking... > > What are the prospects of building a SAN to mirror data on to? Since > everything else in the studio is rack mount, rack space isn't an issue > but I have two requirements that need to be addressed: > > 1) Has to run Linux and be highly and quickly scalable so that I can > just plug in a drive, add it to an array and go. I figure right now, > we're close to about 20B and add another 1TB a month. > > 2) My main requirement is that I be able to seamlessly and on-the-fly > clone the drives that we attach to the host. The host is running Mac OS > 10.3 so Samba or rsync might work. I've been using unison (http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/) lately, rather than rsync. You don't really need it, since it's two-way and you're going one-way, but it's kind of easier to use than rsync so you might want to look into it. There are packages in extras and it's available for CentOS, too, which I saw was already recommended (in its OpenFiler form) in another post.
