Doing a Home Backup Server the right way?
Hi! I have a ton of video as well as a lot of pictures and no good backup system, so I would like to set up some sort of NAS or home server. There are windows, mac, and linux computers on the network. The network is both wireless (mostly) and wired. I have been experimenting some, but I didn't want to do it wrong and find out later, so I thought I would ask here.
The things I want it to do are: - Automatic backup of documents and photos - Direct wired connection to one (or more) computers for fast sending of HUGE files for editing - Mirroring files to separate hard drives (not with RAID 1, because I don't want to have to have all the hard drives be equal sizes) - Hiding some of those drives to other computers - Reliability!!! I was thinking about a Ubuntu setup with samba, but I thought I would check to see if there was something better first. Thanks!! |
You don't say what kind of hardware you want to use
I've been pleased with NASLite for old hardware. http://www.serverelements.com/naslite.php
Using scripts on the client PC's to do the backups. Probably can't do any thing fancy re- RAID with it. |
Thanks for the suggestion! Do you know it is easy to make it keep two copies of files on different drives?
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I use SuSE (but Ubuntu is probably just as easy), Samba and rsync to backu up data between machines.
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Thanks, I have a test machine to work on this for, so I will try what you suggested. If anyone knows the name of the program to see when files have changed that would be great!
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