Re: [lopsa-discuss] Acopia

2010-05-27 Thread Matthias Birkner
= "If they are the pillars of our community, We better keep a sharp eye on the roof." === - Original Message > From: John Stoffel > To: Adam Levin > Cc: LOPSA Discuss

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Acopia

2010-05-27 Thread Adam Levin
On Thu, 27 May 2010, John Stoffel wrote: > Please share! Absolutely! > That might work, but the real advantage we perceived was being able to > get around/away from the 16Tb volume limitations of Netapp, which > would let us simplify the data paths users used to access stuff, and > let us grow l

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Acopia

2010-05-27 Thread John Stoffel
> "Adam" == Adam Levin writes: Adam> On Wed, 26 May 2010, John Stoffel wrote: >> Unless your backup software and your NAS box talk very well together, >> you're going to be hosed on restores. Adam> Thanks, John. That's a concern of mine as well. To us, it turned out to be the critical prob

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Acopia

2010-05-27 Thread Adam Levin
On Wed, 26 May 2010, John Stoffel wrote: > Unless your backup software and your NAS box talk very well together, > you're going to be hosed on restores. Thanks, John. That's a concern of mine as well. > Now, I will admit this was all a couple of years ago, and it may have > been fixed or improv

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Acopia

2010-05-26 Thread John Stoffel
Adam> Hey all. Does anyone have any experience with Acopia? I've got Adam> brief and unpleasant knowledge of Rainfinity, but I've never Adam> worked with Acopia, and I hear it's good stuff for NAS namespace Adam> virtualization, so I'm curious about any success stories or Adam> failure stories y

[lopsa-discuss] Acopia

2010-05-26 Thread Adam Levin
Hey all. Does anyone have any experience with Acopia? I've got brief and unpleasant knowledge of Rainfinity, but I've never worked with Acopia, and I hear it's good stuff for NAS namespace virtualization, so I'm curious about any success stories or failure stories you might have. Thanks, -Ad