NAS has actually gotten very effective<br><br>You may want to take a look at the D-Links and Buffalo NAS Servers for having the backup info on.<br><br><br>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..<br>
<br><a href="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">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</a><br>
<br>You can also pick up similar devices on ebay and the likes of <a href="http://buy.com">buy.com</a> for alot less.<br><br>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.<br>
<br>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.<br><br>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.<br>
<br><br>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).<br><br><br>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.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 6:14 PM, M. Hamzah Khan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hamzah@hamzahkhan.com">hamzah@hamzahkhan.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hello Eric,<br>
<br>
I've actually looked into NAS, but I wanted to escape using a hard drive<br>
based solution.<br>
<br>
Besides using Bacula on my server is basically the same thing as it<br>
backs up all the machines on my network :).<br>
<br>
I guess I'll have to settle with using a hard drive based solution if I<br>
want to keep the price down, and storage space up, tapes are really too<br>
expensive and I guess using RAID1 on a few disks should be reliable<br>
enough.... I hope. :)<br>
<br>
Thanks anyway.<br>
<br>
Regards<br>
<br>
Hamzah<br>
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On Sun, 2009-09-27 at 17:47 -0500, Eric Clark wrote:<br>
> For backups I would actually look at a NAS Server dual bay or quad bay<br>
> 1TB x 2 or 3 drives<br>
><br>
> The NAS is pretty simple to setup and would require network backups<br>
> and accessibility however you could actually do them in NTFS so that<br>
> you could backup windows machines as well.<br>
><br>
> <a href="http://www.google.com/products?hl=en&q=netgear+nas" target="_blank">http://www.google.com/products?hl=en&q=netgear+nas</a><br>
> +storage&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=cuu_Sr6GHsKe8Abz1ZShAQ&sa=X&oi=product_result_group&ct=title&resnum=7<br>
><br>
> On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 5:40 PM, M. Hamzah Khan<br>
> <<a href="mailto:hamzah@hamzahkhan.com">hamzah@hamzahkhan.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Hey everyone,<br>
><br>
> My home server just had a disk failure a few weeks ago and<br>
> like a lot of<br>
> people I haven't ever really made backups on a regular basis.<br>
> So I was<br>
> looking into backup solutions which will save me from this<br>
> situation<br>
> again.<br>
><br>
> Now I have Bacula setup, and backing up my files onto my home<br>
> server.<br>
><br>
> Although this works great, I have one issue: The disk in my<br>
> server was<br>
> the one that actually failed, and so, even with RAID1, could<br>
> fail again.<br>
> So to get around this I wanted to backup to external media<br>
> aswell.<br>
><br>
> I don't really think external hard drives are that great<br>
> considering<br>
> they are just as reliable as internal hard drives which would<br>
> be<br>
> pointless as RAID1 should be reliable enough in that case.<br>
><br>
> Backing up to DVDs are quite unreliable too, a simple scratch<br>
> could<br>
> render the backup useless. Also it would require quite a lot<br>
> of DVDs to<br>
> backup my data (at least 500GB!).<br>
><br>
> The only other option I could think of is to use tapes, but<br>
> this option<br>
> can be quite pricy for a home user.<br>
><br>
> So I was wondering what you guys use for external backups for<br>
> a home<br>
> system containing at least 500GB worth of important data?<br>
><br>
> Regards<br>
><br>
> Hamzah<br>
> --<br>
> M. Hamzah Khan<br>
> RedHat Certified Engineer Number: 804005539516829<br>
> Email: <a href="mailto:hamzah@hamzahkhan.com">hamzah@hamzahkhan.com</a><br>
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