Rob Owens wrote at about 11:57:01 -0400 on Monday, October 27, 2008: > Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: > > What is the alternative if you don't have room on your server and if > > you can't "afford" something fancier than a SAN? > > For me, using NAS is very economical given the cost of drives and the > > existence of cheap embedded Linux NAS devices. Maybe I am missing an > > easy better alternative. > > > I'm not sure what a NAS costs these days, but my BackupPC server is a > white box desktop-class machine with SATA drives in software RAID 1. It > cost me $600. It runs the server software and stores the backups locally. > > You can keep it cheap by using a mini/micro ATX motherboard -- they've > usually got onboard video and onboard LAN, and you're not likely to need > much in the way of PCI slots. Just make sure the motherboard has plenty > of room for expansion in terms of RAM and hard disks. >
Well I bought a dns-323 for about $130 and got 2 1-TB Seagate drives for $149 each. So under $450 for a 1TB of RAID-1 backup. Also it uses only a few watts of power (and even less when the disks power down since I mount root off of a small surplus usb stick). Also the dns-323 is extremely well built (metal, solid, not platic) and small - not much bigger than the 2 drives themselves side-to-side) But I agree that one could do well also by going the white box way... ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
