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Here is a quick post about a cheap SAN and secure backup architecture solution for small-sized platform (5/10 servers). In this study case we will see how to use Network Block Devices (nbd) and soft-raid with mdadm. I design it for my personal web platform which is a small one. Last day, I was missing of free space on my backup server and I was angry by the idea to rent a most expensive server to store my backup while I had lot of unused space on my other servers.

1. Initial platform
2. New platform
3. How to do it ?

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If you are a PHP developer or a LAMP server admin you probably have already heard about the Zend Platform. After some test and configure/tunning step, we deployed this solution on a heavy loaded production server running with Apache 2.x, PHP 4.4.x, MySQL Client 5.x.

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