G+_John Mink Posted March 10, 2014 Share Posted March 10, 2014 Make NAS better-er! What I mean is that we all know we shouldn't rely on a single machine (regardless of how many HDDs it has, and how much parity) to host our files. Yet after building a single NAS (which we've seen on Know How already with FreeNAS), that's easy enough to do. Maybe we are backing up files to it, maybe we're simply running files from that NAS...either way, having a 2nd (or 3rd, or nth) NAS would be a good idea. Now you could run a cron job (or even an inotify script) which keeps two or more NAS in sync, but you're still choosing a primary NAS & needing to change all the things (like mount points/file locations & possibly the working of your backup scripts) when that one breaks. Is there any way to have multiple physical NAS which are identical (or not) but appear to a user to be a single "logical" NAS? (I'm using disk/raid language with "logical" & "physical" as it's an obvious analogy, but technically a totally different world) which would appear to the user to be a single machine/drive. Meaning that if I have 3 NAS, I don't care which NAS the data is coming from, I don't care if a NAS is down, I just want to see the data. Obviously this is possible, as enterprises have such technology, but what is available to a hobbyist/enthusiast? If this isn't a feasible approach, what would a good backup be? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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