Does anyone have experience with enduser managed storage?
Specifically, is it worth it to set up point-in-time replicas and let
endusers access those replicas to restore files they might have
corrupted or inadvertently deleted rather than calling the storage
team to do it for them. Is there a downside to allowing this kind of
activity?

Thanks,
alan

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On 27 Apr 2004 10:52:05 -0700, alan@radding.net (alan) wrote:

>Does anyone have experience with enduser managed storage?
>Specifically, is it worth it to set up point-in-time replicas and let
>endusers access those replicas to restore files they might have
>corrupted or inadvertently deleted rather than calling the storage
>team to do it for them. Is there a downside to allowing this kind of
>activity?
>
>Thanks,
>alan

Depends on how it's done.  We use NetApp's snapshots all the time.
Probably 80% of the user base knows how to use it and regularly does.
Our OP's guys have said that this takes care of about 60% of restore
requests for data on filers.

Totally worth it, if it's done right.  One thing you probably don't
want to do is set them loose on an rsync'd or broken mirror
repository.  Probably asking for trouble there.

~F

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Faeandar wrote:

> On 27 Apr 2004 10:52:05 -0700, alan@radding.net (alan) wrote:
> 
>
> Depends on how it's done.  We use NetApp's snapshots all the time.
> Probably 80% of the user base knows how to use it and regularly does.
> Our OP's guys have said that this takes care of about 60% of restore
> requests for data on filers.
>
> Totally worth it, if it's done right.  One thing you probably don't
> want to do is set them loose on an rsync'd or broken mirror
> repository.  Probably asking for trouble there.
>
> ~F

Doesn't have one Netapp filer, but installed many of them at customers
site
- and all of them enabled their users to recover deleted files by mistake
from
snapshots.

René

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