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| Help! That client outsmarts me! |
by Qcumber-some |
2008-03-20 13:05:38 |
Short story:
I requested a new motherboard for a certain new computer which was requested by $client. $Client knows what's on storage and there's this nice motherboard which I've not used yet. Asking me why, I could easily tell: because you requested a RAID5 system and this motherboard only provides a RAID0 or RAID1 between that single internal SATA connection and the eSATA connection at the backside. Well, I won, I got my new motherboard.
Now you have to know that this client works in 4-weeks-turns between two different plants and refuses to take a Laptop. So we set up two Desktop systems and provided a mobile (eSATA) harddisk. Now you have to know: The data between those two computers must be equal, so $client uses a synchronization tool which updates the destination harddisk after arriving at the new plant. This synchronization takes *a lot of time* because it has to work on a serious lot of quite large files (databases, reports, what ever) - it is about 45GB at the moment, and a synchronization overwrites about 80% of the data, but it takes much longer than just copying it over.
$client also listens to me when I explain something computerish, and I made the mistake (:-D) explaining RAID levels, and why RAID is not backup etc.
Now $client surprises me with the idea to have an eSATA disk act as Master for a RAID1 (mirror) with the other drive which is internally built into the Desktop machines at the two plants, and therefor have a way of offsite backup (not the only one, but still...) AND a fast way to synchronize data.
My first thought was "WTF?", my second thought was "this can't work" - but thinking it through, I can't find any "won't work" point. Sure, it's a strange and inconvenient way, but well...
*shrug*
I'm considering myself outsmarted at the moment. |
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Its thinking outside the box | by imrambi | 2008-03-20 13:17:08 |
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