Using WAL archiving & Compellent snapshots for PostgreSQL backups
Changing my Postgres DB backup strategy from nightly pg_dumps to WAL archiving with SAN snapshots.
Compellent Doesn't Suck
TweetI noticed a bunch of people landing on this site by searching for “compellent sucks.” I just want to avoid any confusion: Compellent doesn’t suck. Now that the pain of spending the money to expand our Compellent SAN is in the past, I am back to being in love with the product. The only gripe [...]
The bright side of Compellent
TweetSince I was bemoaning Compellent’s pricing recently I figured it would be unfair of me not to highlight the upside. Their tagline is (or was when we purchased it) “The only SAN so sophisticated it’s simple.” While I can’t say whether they’re the ONLY one, the idea is definitely true. This is the first SAN [...]
Oh, Compellent… again with the disk prices.
TweetTime to expand the SAN again.
The SAN Scam
TweetIt’s time to buy some more disks for the SAN we have at work. The SAN is made by Compellent and we’ve had it for a year and it’s been great. One of the selling points was the ability to add disks however we wanted – one at a time is possible, which apparently isn’t [...]
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