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The Electrical Engineering department at Stanford University has often spearheaded the use of new technology via its collaboration with the industry or through its own research. Often, though, major changes in technology may drive an entire shift in the infrastructure required for the research and education activities of the department.
The explosion of cheap, readily available storage has required us to adopt new strategies and technologies to manage data, whether its the primary storage or backup and recovery services. Foremost, as storage itself gets commoditized, we need to avoid expensive solutions and creatively adopt the next wave of solutions at minimal costs to keep abreast of what appears to be constant storage growth. Such standbys as tape-based backups may not be dead, but as will be shown, the realities of data growth require us to move beyond previous data management mechanisms.
This white paper covers our use of new growth-oriented filesystems with snapshot capabilities, iSCSI for network layer independence, and a collection of other technologies provided by various vendors and open source projects to create a multi-tiered storage solution with self-service data restoration, long term growth, and disaster recovery.
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