[CentOS] External Backup Systems?
M. Hamzah Khan
hamzah at hamzahkhan.com
Mon Sep 28 02:06:12 UTC 2009
On Sun, 2009-09-27 at 18:24 -0500, Eric Clark wrote:
> NAS has actually gotten very effective
>
> 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..
Well my server will be on 24/7 anyway as it runs as my mail server and
webserver anyway.
Besides, a NAS is really just a glorified mini-server with a simplified
management system.
I could quite easily replicate all of its features on a Linux machine
using standard tools. Thats not really what I wanted although so far it
seems that this is the only real feasible route considering the amount
of data that needs to be backed up.
>
> 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 at hamzahkhan.com> 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
>
>
> 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 at hamzahkhan.com> 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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> > Email: hamzah at hamzahkhan.com
> > URL: http://www.hamzahkhan.com
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