I don't understand why you need Foundation Suite - If you dont want veritas,
why not just use DiskSuite - it comes with the OS and although it's not
perfect it's still nicer than the options in Linux (in my opinion).   All
you need to do is to be ableto build big devices - UFS will handle the file 
system just fine.  ANd I
don't really see why you'd NEED it to all be in a single file system?

Kevin Madrick said:
> We're currently running an E-3000 with 2 x 248 MHz procs, 2.5GB RAM,
> connected to a Storage-Tek 9710 with 6 x DLT-4000 drives. Our current
> load is ~2 TB/wk.
>
> We have a lot of very slow clients, so we're looking at backing up to
> disk, and then vaulting to tape. We'd like to have a single filesystem
> of ~2-4 TB, so Solaris is pretty much out. Veritas Foundation Suite for
> an E-3000 is ~9K$, and we can buy a Linux server for that. Ext3 scales
> to 4 TB, so we won't need Foundation Suite.
>
> However, I have no experience sizing a Linux NBU server. Can a single
> PIII Xeon handle the above load? How scalable is it? Is anyone running
> NBU on Linux? Is it stable?
>
> Thanks very much,
>
> Kevin
>
>
>
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