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Distributed Replicated Storage Across Four Storage Nodes With GlusterFS On Fedora 12

Administrator — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 10:08:57 +0000

This tutorial shows how to combine four single storage servers (running Fedora 12) to a distributed replicated storage with GlusterFS. Nodes 1 and 2 (replication1) as well as 3 and 4 (replication2) will mirror each other, and replication1 and replication2 will be combined to one … Continue reading →

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SUN OpenStorage presentation

Administrator — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 10:06:35 +0000

“At work (client site) SUN made a presentation about their OpenStorage products (Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems) today. From a technology point of view, the software side is nothing new to me. Using SSDs for zfs as a read-/write-cache is something we … Continue reading →

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A guide to network attached Storage Devices for Backup

Administrator — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:33:22 +0000

The New York Times has put together a guide helping you find the best NAS storage servers for your need: “… [a] NAS provides a central hard drive on which you can store, share and back up all files from … Continue reading →

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FreeNAS installation – setting up Unison (video)

Administrator — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:46:19 +0000

Pox and Ragble explain how to use Unison to sync a Mac computer to a FreeNAS box. Unison is a file-synchronization tool for Unix and Windows. It allows two replicas of a collection of files and directories to be stored … Continue reading →

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FreeNAS installation – setting up rsync (video)

Administrator — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:37:21 +0000

Pox and Ragble explain how to use rsync for mirroring data stored the FreeNAS Box. rsync is an open source utility that provides fast incremental file transfer. [There is a video that cannot be displayed in this feed. Visit the blog … Continue reading →

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Step-by-step how to make a FreeNAS Box (video)

Administrator — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:31:41 +0000

Pox and Ragble give an in depth guide for making your own Network Attached Storage device with FreeNAS. [There is a video that cannot be displayed in this feed. Visit the blog entry to see the video.] Step-by-step how to … Continue reading →

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Build a Home Media Server with unRAID

Administrator — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 18:19:03 +0000

Ben Long has written a post on PC World website on his experience with Lime Technology‘s unRAID. It’s not so much about how to build a home media server with unRAID, but more an account of his (positive) experience: “One … Continue reading →

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iXsystems iX-N4236 Orion II Server Series

Administrator — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 19:58:32 +0000

The Orion II Storage Server & JBOD Storage Expansion Deliver Unparalleled Storage Density With Redundant Cooling and Powerful Intel® Technologies iXsystems have released the iX-N4236 Orion II Storage Server which is designed to handle storage-intensive tasks while remaining at an … Continue reading →

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How to avoid paying the high price of Cheap Storage

Administrator — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 19:42:34 +0000

Unbelievably inexpensive networked storage options have emerged, but it’s a case of ‘False Economics 101.’ PCMag has a post advising how to avoid the pitfalls of cheap storage: The proliferation of huge, cache-laden SATA disks in the consumer market has … Continue reading →

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High-availability storage with GlusterFS on Ubuntu

Administrator — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 12:49:13 +0000

This tutorial shows how to set up a high-availability storage with two storage servers (Ubuntu 9.10) that use GlusterFS. Each storage server will be a mirror of the other storage server, and files will be replicated automatically across both storage … Continue reading →

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