On 07/30/2014 9:42 am, Dmitri Maziuk wrote: > On 7/30/2014 7:56 AM, Radosław Korzeniewski wrote: > >> Could you explain what "NetApp Client" is/will be/could be, please. >> What >> do you mean by "NetApp Client". I'd like to understand this thread, >> but >> I'm not an english native speaker so I miss the main point of this >> thread. > > It's not your English, it's NetApp. ;) > > Netapp is a completely closed proprietary system with its own > everything: from disk firmware to os. It's "appliance-type" filer and > the os is incompatible with everything including its own major > releases. > > Their main selling point is working at the level of disk blocks, which > makes for very efficient use of storage space, snapshots, replication, > etc. > > On second thought, their shiny! deduplicated block-level storage would > probably not transfer to tape very well anyway, so there wouldn't be > much advantage to creating a native netapp client. > > Dima >
Your probably right about it not transferring to tape very well, though making a client run on it might not be that difficult assuming that the content on this page <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_products_based_on_FreeBSD> is correct and it truly is based on FreeBSD. Of course having data that can be restored after a backup and actually used after that is going to be a whole entirely new challenge, as backing up any type of data with de-duplication has already proven to be problematic. -- Thanks, Dean E. Weimer http://www.dweimer.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Infragistics Professional Build stunning WinForms apps today! Reboot your WinForms applications with our WinForms controls. Build a bridge from your legacy apps to the future. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=153845071&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
