[s-cars] NAC- need advice on photo workstation, RAID and some other ???s

[Taka Mizutani]

Teddy-
Thanks for the info on EMC Retrospect, I think that's going to be on my
shopping
list.

I don't quite understand your suggestion of a disk farm- Matt or someone
else also
suggested this, but to really implement a backup server, wouldn't I need
some sort
of server OS running on the box and also how would I control all of those
drives? I'd
still need a decent controller setup, wouldn't I?

I've already got two PCs on my desk and a laptop nearby, I don't really want
a third-
we already have a third PC in the basement office. Everything is linked up,
but not
networked- I was thinking about moving to Gigabit switches if I'm going to
network everything.

I don't plan on keeping my photo workstation online 24/7, just plan on
firing it up as needed,
with pretty much zero internet access (other than loading software updates
and the like). I will
use its horsepower for Photoshop, scanning film and old photos, burning DVDs
and MP3
encoding, that's about it.

I will keep the PC I'm writing this on as my primary work PC, as it
accomplishes all that I
need of it for now (Athlon XP 1800 w/ 1GB, 220GB of storage).

You all are the BEST knowledgebase when it comes to damn near everything,
that's why I love
this list!

Thanks,
Taka


On 6/11/06, Theodore Chen <tedebearp at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> --- Taka Mizutani <t44tqtro at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > Also, what do you think about the EMC Retrospect backup software?
>
> i was going to suggest that (although i have to add a disclaimer that
> i work for EMC and managing the intellectual property portfolio for
> retrospect is one of my responsibilities).
>
> IMHO, it's a great solution, far better than using MS backup.  it
> offers you the ability to set backup windows, and you can keep multiple
> versions.  you can schedule incremental, differential, and full backups.
> this protects you against data changes or corruption caused by the
> application (which RAID isn't going to).  disk space is very cheap
> these days.  i'd probably set up an old machine as a disk farm
> by filling it with 300GB hard drives ($90 each these days) and i'd
> just do backup to disk.
>
> -teddy
>
>
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