On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 01:49:24PM +0100, James Elsey wrote:
If it were me I would certainly take the price into consideration, as it all depends on what you are backing up.
If you are running a small business from home, or have documents that you can't lose then this would be a viable option.
Yes, we are a small business and one of the things that gets backed up to the garage system is the accounts etc.
If its just personal files/photos/media, would it not be best to buy a spindle of CDs and come up with some rotation system for backup?
I'm not convinced, you need a *lot* of DVDs to back up a 500Gb hard disk (yes, I know it's no all new data every week but solutions which only back up changes to removable media sound complex to me).
It would have its benefits.
- cheaper
Probably!
- less can go wrong
Hmm, my experience of writing CDs and DVDs is that *lots* can go wrong. Don't get me wrong, they work OK in general and I do copy stuff to CD/DVD, but there are often issues with compatibility, unclosed disks, etc.
- probably less prone to weathering (does the garage get extremely hot during the summer?
It's a big brick built garage with a games room above, lots of people think it's a house. So, no, in this case the garage is quite a civilised environment.
- less enticing to any thieves
But they're rather less likely to go rooting around in the garage (full of boxes of screws, old car parts, etc.) than elsewhere.
- doesn't cost anything to run!
Yes it does, among other things it costs *time*.
Maybe I'm too naïve, but I'd favour CD/DVD media as backup over a server!
J
-----Original Message----- From: main-bounces@lists.alug.org.uk [mailto:main-bounces@lists.alug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Chris G Sent: 24 August 2009 13:39 To: main@lists.alug.org.uk Subject: Re: [ALUG] A low powered backup solution probably/possibly.
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 10:36:36AM +0100, Chris G wrote:
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 10:34:17AM +0100, Chris G wrote:
Synaptic, Qnap and IcyBox all offer NAS servers which handle NFS as
Oops, that's Synology not Synaptic.
A little further research on Google (especially the reviews and comparisons found at www.smallnetbuilder.com) has led me to the Western Digital My Book World Edition II. Price for a 2Tb version of this is about £215, it has ssh access built in, no hacking needed, power consumption is 16 watts when active, 5 watts when idle. The performance is not quite as good as the top of the range Synology and Qnap ones but it's *way* cheaper.
£215 for a low powered Linux box with 2Tb of storage seems excellent value to me.
So I'm off to buy one and will report back when I've played with it a little (if anyone is interested).
-- Chris Green
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