Timothy J Massey wrote at about 21:57:11 -0400 on Tuesday, April 12, 2011: > "Jeffrey J. Kosowsky" <[email protected]> wrote on 04/12/2011 07:36:36 > PM: > > > Just as a side point, my plugcomputer + USB drive is so small and > > portable that I actually have it located inside my network box.
> By network box, do you mean something like a NAS? Actually I just meant a small cabinet that holds my router, switch, voip box, and associated UPS. So I just plug the plugcomputer into the UPS, attach a short ethernet cable to my switch, add a USB drive & done! I have run BackupPC also on a DNS-323 which is an ARM-based NAS with just 64MB memory and a 500MHz CPU. It works and while the cpu and memory are slower & smaller than a plug, it has SATA built-in drives vs. USB drives on a plug. I also have a more powerful QNAP TS-219 TurboNAS sitting in a box waiting for me to have time to play with it -- it has 2 SATA drive bays, iSCSCI, 512MB DRAM and 1.2GHz ARM processor which makes it the CPU and DRAM equivalent of a plug but with built-in drives rather than having to use external USB drives. > I've actually played with the idea of putting BackupPC directly onto an > Iomega ix4-200d. The Iomega boxes are very easy to SSH into with full > root access to the Linux system. The only thing that has stopped me is > that I currently use SATA trays/mobile racks for archives. I could use > USB drives on the Iomega, but it kinda undoes the all-enclosed nature of > the backup server if I have to dangle a USB drive off of it... :( But dangling a USB drive has one advantage... you can just swap in a new drive and rotate your backups without even having to reboot... (note I keep my ssh keys in /etc/BackupPC rather than in topdir so that I really only need to have TopDir/pc, TopDir/pool, TopDir/cpool, and TopDir/trash directories to get it all running. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Forrester Wave Report - Recovery time is now measured in hours and minutes not days. Key insights are discussed in the 2010 Forrester Wave Report as part of an in-depth evaluation of disaster recovery service providers. Forrester found the best-in-class provider in terms of services and vision. Read this report now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/ibm-webcastpromo _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
