{"id":776,"date":"2006-05-19T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-19T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/?p=776"},"modified":"2006-05-19T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-05-19T12:00:00","slug":"freenas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/19\/freenas\/","title":{"rendered":"FreeNAS"},"content":{"rendered":"

I noticed a post on the Oracle-L<\/a> list by Connor McDonald,<\/a> who is a UKOUG stalwart and Oak Table member, about FreeNAS<\/a>. It struck me how often I’ve been in a situation at work when I’ve been touting around storage vendors to get some very low cost, very high capacity storage for disk backups. It’s often a short term requirement. Judging by Connor’s comments, it sounds like it was a big success for him and might be worth bearing in mind the next time you’re in that situation. Anyway, here are his unedited comments.<\/p>\n

“Unrelated to use of Oracle, but during a recent series of large conversions,<\/span> <\/span>we had need to take several backups of our database – couple of thousand bucks got us some cheapy ATA and USB disks on a PC, whacked in an FreeNAS iso image on CD and voila! A few terabytes of NFS storage…it worked an absolute treat.”<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I noticed a post on the Oracle-L list by Connor McDonald, who is a UKOUG stalwart and Oak Table member, about FreeNAS. It struck me how often I’ve been in a situation at work when I’ve been touting around storage vendors to get some very low cost, very high capacity storage for disk backups. It’s… Continue reading FreeNAS<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1427,"url":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/13\/book-review-oracle-asm\/","url_meta":{"origin":776,"position":0},"title":"Book Review – Oracle ASM","date":"August 13, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"[Disclaimer - this is a review of a free copy I received from Oracle Press in the UK]Well, it turned out that I had requested the ASM book (or \"Oracle Automatic Storage Management: Under-the-Hood & Practical Deployment Guide\", to give it it's full title) as one to review. 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