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The original was posted on /r/sysadmin by /u/rowansc1 on 2024-01-22 11:35:17+00:00.
Hi all,
I'm in the process of implementing additional backup servers into a network for a customer. At the moment they have a few backup servers running. However, one of them is starting to get quite full.
The customer doesn't want to purchase any more hardware at the moment, but we do have another storage server available to use. Is anyone aware of a way to "link" the storage of those two servers together to act as one large storage volume? In a similar way to RAID0 where it is a large volume.
FYI: The servers which are currently running do not have any additional storage bays to use, and the available drives we can use are at a similar capacity so there is no point in cloning the drives to move the data across.
We don't need fast data transfer rates, just a normal networking speed is fine.
I'll try and convince them to just purchase higher-capacity drives or let me split up the backups more. However, if anyone has encountered this before and knows the possibility of doing this, it would be appreciated if you could let me know so I can present some options to them.
Cheers all, enjoy the start of the week!