NAS, (eg Network Attached Storage), versus DAS, (eg Directed Attached Storage), versus SAN, (eg Storae Area Network) are some of the options. CIFS/samba, NFS, FTP, SFTP, HTTP, UPnP, AFP, rsync, TCP/IP are some of the protocols. There are plenty of options. I'm a Linux guy, so my preference is to network over TCP/IP using NFS.
All I need to do is put a heavy lifting 2TB OEM drive in one of my Linux computers, put a partition on her, and format her with an ext4 file system to make her usable. Then I can make the drive available to anyone on the network by having the host, (eg the NFS server), grant permission to clients on the network, usually by client computer's IP address. Seems like this is the same thing as and NAS server. If not, I'm not sure what's the difference. LOL http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network-attached_storage Regards, LelandJ On 03/14/2011 03:50 PM, Mike Copeland wrote: > Good stuff Leland! > > I have no idea if Seagate has gotten their stuff together in the last > year or so, but their "external HD via USB" product had a lot of trouble > with Win7 back when I set one up for a client. Last I heard they had > released some new software, but even after upgrading it still had issues > with just disappearing from the list of devices and required a > hard-reboot to get it back. > > I'm still a fan of building NAS from an old computer, Linux, and a huge > hard drive. > > Mike > >> Perhaps this will help: >> >> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136749&cm_re=wd_usb3_backup-_-22-136-749-_-Product >> >> http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/10/20/review-western-digital-my-book-essential-with-smartware-backup-software/ >> >> Regards, >> >> LelandJ >> >> >> >> On 03/14/2011 03:09 PM, Paul Hill wrote: >>> On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 5:07 PM, Tracy Pearson<[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>>> Ted Roche wrote on 2011-03-14: >>>>> On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 12:06 PM, Tracy Pearson<[email protected]> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>>> Plug in an external hard drive and a program will launch. >>>>> Many of the inexpensive external drives come with a button and >>>>> matching software that will run a backup when the button is pressed. >>>> I was hoping we would be able to avoid purchasing another external drive. >>>> But that is on my thoughts. >>> Can you use autostart? Does that even work on USB drives??? >>> >>>>>>> It would be nice if the program was able to determine the size of the >>>>>>> hard drive is greater than 4 gigabyte (or another size setting to keep >>>>>>> from popping up the UI) >>>>> I'm not sure what you're asking here. >>>>> >>>> If a UI is brought up asking the user if they would like to start a backup >>>> process. I would want to avoid this UI from being presented when a 2 gig >>>> thumb drive is put in to the USB port. Of course, this would not be an >>>> issue >>>> with the above mentioned drive with the button. >>> Create a file on the hard drive. Your backup script can check for this. >>> Or maybe check the volume label? >>> >>> I use a batch file for my backups. It uses 7zip to compress the files. >>> Runs on a schedule every night. >>> [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
