Re: off-site backup plan

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 06:38:58 -0700

That's pretty much what this server already does. Every night it wakes up every other machine in the house, makes a backup of each, and then puts the other machine back to sleep. Now, I'm trying to make a plan for those backups to survive the house burning down or some other total catastrophe. I don't want to lose 10 years of digital photos in an emergency like that, and pushing all this data over my internet connection isn't feasible. 

alex

On Oct 20, 2009, at 6:42 AM, [email protected] wrote:
I would install a second eth? adapter in the "real" machine and have a cheap 
puter with a cold-swap SATA bay connected to it.
Every nite I wold WOL the little sucker, run the backup over the dedicated 
Ethernet, and shut it down.
Any hardware failure (other than the Ethernet) can be dealt with with cheap 
hardware and outside the boundaries of the server.
YMMV...    :)
ET




Alex Dean writes:


I make regular backups to a software RAID1 disk array.  I'd like to
periodically store some backups offsite. Been thinking about buying 2 
extra drives, and adding 1 of them as a hot spare to the RAID1.  Then
remove it from the array, store it elsewhere, and add the other disk in 
its place as the hot spare.  Every week or so, I'd plan to swap the
offsite disk with the current hot spare.

It seems like this should work.  Anyone care to comment?  If I buy a
hot-swap drive bay for the server, can I add/remove normal SATA drives 
without restarting the OS?
I was looking at something like this StarTech caddie, which protects the 
disk a bit more than other disk enclosures.
http://www.startech.com/item/DRW110SATBK-Black-Serial-ATA-Drive-Drawer-wit
h-Shock-Absorbers-Value-Series.aspx

thanks,
alex

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