Hello Eric, I've actually looked into NAS, but I wanted to escape using a hard drive based solution. Besides using Bacula on my server is basically the same thing as it backs up all the machines on my network :). I guess I'll have to settle with using a hard drive based solution if I want to keep the price down, and storage space up, tapes are really too expensive and I guess using RAID1 on a few disks should be reliable enough.... I hope. :) Thanks anyway. Regards Hamzah On Sun, 2009-09-27 at 17:47 -0500, Eric Clark wrote: > For backups I would actually look at a NAS Server dual bay or quad bay > 1TB x 2 or 3 drives > > The NAS is pretty simple to setup and would require network backups > and accessibility however you could actually do them in NTFS so that > you could backup windows machines as well. > > http://www.google.com/products?hl=en&q=netgear+nas > +storage&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=cuu_Sr6GHsKe8Abz1ZShAQ&sa=X&oi=product_result_group&ct=title&resnum=7 > > On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 5:40 PM, M. Hamzah Khan > <hamzah@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hey everyone, > > My home server just had a disk failure a few weeks ago and > like a lot of > people I haven't ever really made backups on a regular basis. > So I was > looking into backup solutions which will save me from this > situation > again. > > Now I have Bacula setup, and backing up my files onto my home > server. > > Although this works great, I have one issue: The disk in my > server was > the one that actually failed, and so, even with RAID1, could > fail again. > So to get around this I wanted to backup to external media > aswell. > > I don't really think external hard drives are that great > considering > they are just as reliable as internal hard drives which would > be > pointless as RAID1 should be reliable enough in that case. > > Backing up to DVDs are quite unreliable too, a simple scratch > could > render the backup useless. Also it would require quite a lot > of DVDs to > backup my data (at least 500GB!). > > The only other option I could think of is to use tapes, but > this option > can be quite pricy for a home user. > > So I was wondering what you guys use for external backups for > a home > system containing at least 500GB worth of important data? > > Regards > > Hamzah > -- > M. Hamzah Khan > RedHat Certified Engineer Number: 804005539516829 > Email: hamzah@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > URL: http://www.hamzahkhan.com > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- M. Hamzah Khan RedHat Certified Engineer Number: 804005539516829 Email: hamzah@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx URL: http://www.hamzahkhan.com Mobile: +44 (0)7525663951
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