G+_John Mink Posted April 5, 2014 Share Posted April 5, 2014 NAS + HAST + CARP = Redundant Array of NAS? I know it's been a while since we've looked at NAS, but I found two protocols which seem like they'd be a huge benefit to a NAS setup & I'd love Padre/whomever to cover this in more detail! 1) HAST - High Availability Storage is a way to 2) CARP - Apparently this isn't a fish? It seems to be some magic way to allocate a single IP to multiple devices on the same LAN so that we can refer to that single IP while having multiple devices, so that we don't need to change IP in case of failure! -- If only we had a Networking Guru to explain all this...or a community of them ;) Any idea how easy/painful this would be to implement on a NAS (see below)? The idea of multiple physical NAS boxes all constantly being constantly synced is awesome, and if it looks like a single box to my machines..even better! Is there some terrible reason this won't work the way I envision (essentially a network level RAID 1 for your NAS)? Or is this exactly what a NAS should be? Point of Interest: I went with NAS4Free over FreeNAS (for reasons--since that's totally an explanation) but the idea is valid for either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Bostjan Cadej Posted April 5, 2014 Share Posted April 5, 2014 I recomend Replication task http://doc.freenas.org/index.php/Replication_Tasks Another option Rsync http://doc.freenas.org/index.php/Rsync_Tasks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_John Mink Posted April 5, 2014 Author Share Posted April 5, 2014 Bostjan Cadej what's the advantage of an rsync task over HAST?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Bostjan Cadej Posted April 6, 2014 Share Posted April 6, 2014 None ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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