OS for SNAP server? Upgrading a SNAPserver? 15
baboonia asks: "I have a 10GB SnapServer appliance. I'm trying to upgrade it to a 40GB drive. Does anyone know what OS SnapServer uses? It looks like some kind of proprietary flavor of Linux but DriveImage 4.0 and Norton Ghost 6.5 don't seem to like it.
(DriveImage supports LinuxSwap and Linux Ext2 but sees the drive as Unallocated.) Has anyone figured out how to move contents of a SnapServer to a larger physical drive? I'll buy you a donut if you can help me out ..."
These units look like a great idea, but since hard drives tend to get larger at a faster rate than people buy new servers (even server appliances) it would be great to upgrade when 10GB is as small as it is today. Have any readers figured out how to do this?
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No promises, but he's a smart kid.
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This is an ITYS post.... (Score:1)
It's what I think when my clients come back to me after realizing NAS as a scalable solution doesn't exist. Rarely is there uprgrade ability in a NAS unless you buy the REAL expen$ive pieces like NetApp... Then you might as well just bend over and hand 'em your wallet.
The scalable answer is a SAN and no, they don't have to cost an arm or a leg.. We build 'em here with quality parts, the same stuff you get from Dell, without their pretty name all over it. I understand the questioner my not need a the huge capacity a SAN may give, but this is just another way to illustrate the point that NAS is a band-aid (at best) on a 5" gash when it comes to large capacity customers.
Snap Server? (Score:1)
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Upgrading Quantum Snap Server Capacity? [slashdot.org]
I think the general consensus was it's not worth it.
I did it! (Score:4)
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Thanks!
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Sounds a little like RAID 1 or RAID 0+1 to me. No magic here.
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I noticed a few other peopls had posted about "odd" things their snap servers had done. Ours has crapped out on us twice here... first time was a replacement by quantum, latest time was just a few hours of downtime. But correct me if I'm wrong... isn't the point of a RAID system so taht I don't have downtime?
Anyway... before I turn into a troll, here's some useful information:
As far as the filesystem/RAID info, Quantum isn't saying much... Last thing I read on the web site was something to this effect:
Q: Are you using Software or Hardware RAID?
A: um, neither. we are using a proprietary, patent-pending system with all kinds of whizzbang things
Ok, here's the real text:
Question:
Generally RAID systems use either a hardware RAID controller, or a software-only RAID system. Which is used by the Snap Server?
Answer:
Snap Server, the award winning line of Network Attached Storage (NAS) servers from Snap Appliances, Inc., utilizes a revolutionary method of RAID management that has sparked both questions and praise from customers and reviewers alike. The question as to what kind of array Snap Server uses is one not easily answered. In fact, Snap Server is neither a hardware array nor a software array. Rather, it is an integrated solution using a patent pending technology for RAID access that implements high speed caching and optimized writes, thereby eliminating the slow performance seen in many other RAID 5 solutions.
The OS is BSD-based (Score:1)
The OS is definitely BSD-based [zdnet.com], but it looks like replacing drives [snapappliances.com] is to be done only by authorized VARs and/or field techs. Which, of course, means somebody has to reverse engineer their upgrade process before end users can do so themselves. Think of it as a BlessSnap floppy
Snap! uses FreeBSD (Score:1)