On 21 July 2011 15:22, Yves Dorfsman <[email protected]> wrote: > How much data are talking about? >
On day one, about 1.5Tb or so. By the end of the first month, after all the now-on-DVDs-and-awkward-to-get-at stuff is moved to the server, somewhere between that and 3Tb. And I'm thinking of this being the main storage server for the house for the next decade or so; so frankly, I'm trying to avoid the "who'll ever need more than 64k of RAM?" thought :D > What about either: > -an internet backup provider (yeah, yeah, "in the cloud") > Sure, soon as you can get fibre to the home in Ireland (you *can* in some very select places under a pilot scheme from Magnet.ie and you can get 100Mb/s in some places via cable broadband; but I'm not in either of those lovely places...) > -buy a NAS box that you drop at a friend/family and remote backup there? > Expensive and awkward, and you'd need two, so now I have a server and two NAS boxes/external storage arrays (one is connected to the server at home with one weekly image backup on it and running the nightly incremental backups and the other is gathering dust with last week's backups in the now-very-crowded drawer of my desk at work). rsync and the new tools that checksum etc... are your friends. > rsnapshot was top of my list along with something like amanda, the plan being that all the house's laptops get backed up to the server's tape drive along with backups of the NAS storage space on the server. -- Mark Dennehy
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