You may want to take a look at the D-Links and Buffalo NAS Servers for having the backup info on.
This may be a very good alternative over the long run as well becuase the NAS will be on 24/7 and draw alot less electricity than a full blown server..
http://www.google.com/products/catalog?hl=en&q=nas+storage+dual+bay&um=1&ie=UTF-8&cid=4947813462866442505&ei=FfO_Ss6BFdHj8AbEx8yuAQ&sa=X&oi=product_catalog_result&ct=result&resnum=5#ps-sellers
You can also pick up similar devices on ebay and the likes of buy.com for alot less.
The benefit is of course being able to use SATA II hard drives that you already own, so you would cut down on cost there as well.
I dropped 2x1TB into one of these babies and actually have it rocking with 2 500GB partitions. *one for *(cough) movies and one of course for files.
One of the drives failed about 2 weeks ago, and I simply pulled it out, and got a new one installed the same day, and it copied everything back over.
It has RAID and a few other technologies like being able to continue a download after you turn your PC or server off (connected to internet of course).
Then also comes the benefits of less electricity usage to pay for. That stuff aint cheap. Its a very smart solution for a growing problem and the best factor that I have found with it is that it is simple to setup, and easier to back up to knowing that it is always online.
On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 6:14 PM, M. Hamzah Khan <hamzah@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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
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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
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