On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 12:46:55PM -0700, Rogan Creswick wrote: > I'm looking for a NAS, but I would really like to use dirvish (see > below) and I'm skeptical that most NASes will support dirvish > properly. My priority, however, is to find an off-the-shelf solution > that "just works".
You're right, you want RSync and/or NFS to do Dirvish backups, and most NASes don't come with those enabled by default. OTOH, nearly all of them run Linux and are easily hackable. I recommend and use a D-Link DNS-323 which is trivially hackable using fun_plug. The '323 is getting long in the tooth but it's cheap and well designed. I enabled rsync support on mine a while ago, and it makes backups delightful. (I just use straight "rsync --link-dest"). You might also consider one of the nice plug computers (e.g. SheevaPlug) or hackable access-points with USB (e.g. NSLU2), and use cheap, portable, flexible USB drives. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
