Linux Server Backup solutions

gamewolf · 07-07-2011, 06:01 PM

I am interested in turning my home server into something that I can store backups on. I do photography and therefore have a lot of photos. I use Mac OS X for my photo editing, so it must be accessible from my Macbook.

I am new when it comes network storage servers, so what would be the best solution for me to be able to backup my photos seamlessly? I would like it easy enough so others can backup files without any terminal commands and such.

What would you suggest? CIFS? RAID? iSCSI?

Thanks,
Kyle

chrism01 · 07-07-2011, 08:16 PM

This can handle Linux/MS/Mac http://amanda.zmanda.com/ & see 15 minute HOWTO http://www.zmanda.com/quick-backup-setup.html

gamewolf · 07-07-2011, 11:21 PM

Thats looks very promising. Thanks for letting me know about that.

What do you think of something like FreeNAS?

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Kyle

chrism01 · 07-07-2011, 11:56 PM

Unfortunately, never been near it ...
RAID: sounds good, but really, an offsite removable storage backup is better as far as backups go. RAID is a high availability thing, more suited to an online server...