An HP Microserver costs £200 if you get it when a rebate is running. Add in four disks and you've got a powerful BackupPC server / NAS. That's what I use at home as a media store. However, it helps to be comfortable configuring Linux services at the command line.
If that's daunting, install webmin as your GUI. Tyler On 2013-11-25 17:26, Kris Lou wrote: > BackupPC has been installed on QNAP devices > (http://wiki.qnap.com/wiki/How_to_install_the_BackupPC_application), but > there's a very real chance that bi-monthly firmware upgrades will break it. > That and the fact that we're waiting for QNAP to upgrade some packages to > close some security holes means that it wasn't worth it for me to sit on a > particular firmware for a long period of time. > > My BackupPC server (dedicated old hardware) writes the pool to a > NFS-mounted share on the NAS. All of the things that Arnold mentioned > apply ... in all honesty, I sometimes feel that it would be better to just > take an old desktop box, dump a bunch of 3TB+ drives in, set up a software > raid and let it do it's thing. > > It'd certainly be cheaper. Heck, for the price of some of these NAS's, you > can build your 2nd server to backup your primary BackupPC server. > > > Kris Lou > k...@themusiclink.net <mailto:k...@themusiclink.net> > > > On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 1:37 AM, zdravko <backuppc-fo...@backupcentral.com > <mailto:backuppc-fo...@backupcentral.com>> wrote: > > Any suggestions which NAS has a "real" useful Linux, so that backupPC > could be installed? My thought was to run backuppc on NAS, so it is not > dependent on user clients. It can even chase clients to backup them > while being on. Another issue would be how to slow down backing up > clients, so people can work normally on their machines during backup. > NAS could backup itself at full speed, of course. Even using some > extra, cheap NAS only for backup seems useful. > > +---------------------------------------------------------------------- > |This was sent by zdravko.balo...@gmail.com > <mailto:zdravko.balo...@gmail.com> via Backup Central. > |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com <mailto:ab...@backupcentral.com>. > +---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Shape the Mobile Experience: Free Subscription > Software experts and developers: Be at the forefront of tech innovation. > Intel(R) Software Adrenaline delivers strategic insight and game-changing > conversations that shape the rapidly evolving mobile landscape. Sign up > now. > > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=63431311&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ > BackupPC-users mailing list > BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net > <mailto: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/ > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Shape the Mobile Experience: Free Subscription > Software experts and developers: Be at the forefront of tech innovation. > Intel(R) Software Adrenaline delivers strategic insight and game-changing > conversations that shape the rapidly evolving mobile landscape. Sign up now. > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=63431311&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ > -- "Should one decide to implement violence as a solution, it should be applied without hesitation or relent until the issue is resolved. It is to no one's benefit, save your adversaries, to half-beat someone." -- Henry Clyde Hatcher IV ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Shape the Mobile Experience: Free Subscription Software experts and developers: Be at the forefront of tech innovation. Intel(R) Software Adrenaline delivers strategic insight and game-changing conversations that shape the rapidly evolving mobile landscape. Sign up now. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=63431311&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ 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/
