Great thread guys,
I think you convinced me to try to avoid the NAS solution and get a standard
Linux box instead with several disks.
Appreciated,
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Laurent
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 7:33 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikes...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/17/2011 12:11 PM, lmirg...@microworld.org wrote:
> > The interest of a NAS is that it provides a strong RAID system with a
> > lightweight Linux system on top - and this at a reasonable price.
> > If you want a good RAID system on a standard server/desktop it becomes
> > really more expensive (as RAID systems are generally not in the default
> > configuration).
>
> Run linux software raid - which is probably what the low-end NAS boxes
> do anyway. Raid1 or 10 have little overhead - just avoid raid5.
>
> > The drawbacks of NAS is that the CPU is usually quite weak (not enough
> > for BackupPC ?) - and also that they don't have a standard Linux
> > distrib, so you may not be able to apply Debian packages or RPMs...
>
> Plus you are stuck with whatever software they happen to run whether you
> like it or not. One thing I'd recommend that will add some complexity
> on a PC though, is putting the system on its own disk (or raid set) with
> the backuppc archive on a separate set. You don't absolutely have to do
> that but it will make life easier later when you want to separately
> update/change the OS, move to a different box, or swap in larger drives.
>
> --
> Les Mikesell
> lesmikes...@gmail.com
>
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