Recently, I picked out, and purchased a Buffalo TeraStation Pro II (Rackmount) with specifications decided on by me and the rest of my team. Sadly, we over looked one small detail. We currently use Symantec Backup Exec, which hits everything in our environment. This doesn’t include Linux based NAS systems sadly.
From what I can tell, we have a few options, none of which sound great however. The first would require us to have a secondary server using NTBackup to make a quick backup of the drive, and post it for our real backup to process.
The second idea is to send it back, and spend more for a system that uses 2003 storage server. We are an all windows shop (Well, aside from our ESX hosts) so this would probably be best, but I’ve never been one for sending stuff back that still works.
Third option: Reload with an OS that is either windows or windows emulating. I’ve spent several hours reading on different methods of replacing the built in OS, however do we really want to go that far for a production piece of hardware?
This device was purchased to remove over 100 GB of Outlook PST files from our file server. The load on our file server has been overwhelming, causing quite a few issues with our users. A NAS came to mind as a place to store them away from our mail file server and available for backup.
Just wondering if anyone’s ever had a similar situation, either with Backup Exc, or the TeraStation. I would also like to hear if anyone’s replaced the OS.
Thanks for reading my wall-o-text,
-Brandon
From what I can tell, we have a few options, none of which sound great however. The first would require us to have a secondary server using NTBackup to make a quick backup of the drive, and post it for our real backup to process.
The second idea is to send it back, and spend more for a system that uses 2003 storage server. We are an all windows shop (Well, aside from our ESX hosts) so this would probably be best, but I’ve never been one for sending stuff back that still works.
Third option: Reload with an OS that is either windows or windows emulating. I’ve spent several hours reading on different methods of replacing the built in OS, however do we really want to go that far for a production piece of hardware?
This device was purchased to remove over 100 GB of Outlook PST files from our file server. The load on our file server has been overwhelming, causing quite a few issues with our users. A NAS came to mind as a place to store them away from our mail file server and available for backup.
Just wondering if anyone’s ever had a similar situation, either with Backup Exc, or the TeraStation. I would also like to hear if anyone’s replaced the OS.
Thanks for reading my wall-o-text,
-Brandon