Re: x using i as storage

[Pat Barber <mboceanside@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have a couple of customers that have no desire to have or maintain
a Windows Server but they do want their pc data in a secure place
that gets regular backup(daily).

Storing their pdf's and word documents on the IFS is painless and quite 
effective
and requires nothing on the part of the users.

Isn't that what the IFS was designed to do ?

What would you do ?(remember... NO Windows server)

Using this method also allows us to get a user back up quite
quickly when their pc decides to stop working.

Lukas Beeler wrote:
> Everytime i see talk about using the standalone machines as a SAN, the
> following questions comes to my head:
>
> "Why, God, why?"
>
> I've seen my fair share of technical documentation about this topic,
> and i've also seen all the marketing blurb, but i've never seen
> something that i would consider an advantage over using a real SAN.
>
> Plus most backup solutions promoted by IBM for this scenario would
> break ESE databases and cause USN rollbacks in DCs.
>
> Are there people running this in production? And if yes - why did you
> decide to do so?
>
>