Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
>
> > This probably means you shouldn't backup to an NFS mounted pool (which you
> > probably shouldn't do for performance reasons anyway).
>
> What is the alternative if you don't have room on your server and if
> you can't "afford" something fancier than a SAN?
The really cheap solution is to throw some big IDE/SATA drives in a
desktop machine that doesn't do anything else at night anyway.
> 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.
If you have space near your server you could also add an external drive
enclosure and an eSATA card to connect it.
--
Les Mikesell
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