FreeNAS anyone?

[Nick]

Historically, problems with NAS came from mismatches between the interface programs expect with a local file system and the protocol used to provide remote access.
Reading the development documents for NFS from version 2 onwards, particularly the discussion on idempotent transactions, stateless servers and locking, is instructive.
I haven't looked at this more recently so don't know whether there is now a standard solution to these problems.

[PhilF]

Check out rsync. It is a very intelligent program with all sorts of connectivity options, and can keep mounted filesystems backed up.

[xilman]

Originally Posted by retina

Stone tablets.

If it was good enough for my greatⁿ-grandfather then it should be good enough for me.

Don't knock it. It is by far the longest lived information storage technology yet fielded. Surviving petroglyphs long predate papyrus and clay tablets. The latter are much more robust than the former.

I've seen very serious proposals that inscriptions on Pt (by preference, because of its hardness) or Au (it's cheaper but softer and more attractive so more likely to be reused) be used to store information which we would like to last for millennia.

[S485122]

Originally Posted by xilman

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store information which we would like to last for millennia.

"Kilroy was here" ?

Jacob

[retina]

Originally Posted by xilman

... Au (it's cheaper but softer and more attractive so more likely to be reused) be used to store information which we would like to last for millennia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_Golden_Record

But the available storage is tiny. And the write times are very long.

[xilman]

Originally Posted by retina

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_Golden_Record

But the available storage is tiny. And the write times are very long.

Special case of the Au/PT decision. It's well away from any pilferers for a significant length of time.

[paulunderwood]

Originally Posted by PhilF

Check out rsync. It is a very intelligent program with all sorts of connectivity options, and can keep mounted filesystems backed up.

Yes. I am loving rsync. It only backs up again the files that have changed (based on size and timestamp unless otherwise stated). And it deletes files from the backup set that have been deleted on the master.