[CentOS] External Backup Systems?

[M. Hamzah Khan]

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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>         M. Hamzah Khan
>         RedHat Certified Engineer Number: 804005539516829
>         Email: hamzah at hamzahkhan.com
>         URL: http://www.hamzahkhan.com
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