[lug] NAS recommendations?

[George Sexton]

I use plain old USB drives. I have 3-4 with the same enclosure. I just
attach one to the server, and dump to it. Every month or so, when one fills
up, I put it in my media safe and pull the next one in the rotation out of
the safe.

 

In my case, I use tar with GPG to encrypt the data that gets stored on the
USB drives. 

 

I started doing the same thing for a non-profit I admin. Because I use GPG
to encrypt the backups, I don't have to worry if a drive is stolen out of my
car. For transport, I use a pistol case.

 

http://www.impactguns.com/store/024099001243.html

 

 

You can get them around town for $6-8

 

A backup isn't going to do much good if someone breaks in and steals your
computer and your backup drive sitting next to it.

 

George Sexton
MH Software, Inc.
http://www.mhsoftware.com/
Voice: 303 438 9585
  

From: lug-bounces at lug.boulder.co.us [mailto:lug-bounces at lug.boulder.co.us]
On Behalf Of Jeffrey Haemer
Sent: Monday, October 26, 2009 9:47 AM
To: Jim Buzbee; Boulder (Colorado) Linux Users Group -- General Mailing List
Cc: Kristina
Subject: [lug] NAS recommendations?

 

Folks,

 

A NAS, for home backup, seems attractive.  Any of you have strong
recommendations these days?  

 

Looks like there are 1Tb NAS boxes on Amazon in the $150-$200 range, and NAS
boxes with pairs of 1Tb disks, RAIDed in some cases, in the $250-$350 range.


 

Kristina and I normally both use Linux laptops, but we have a pair of old
Mac laptops that we could stand to dump to a file server, too. 

 

The Linux boxes have 80G disks, and I think my Mac has a 40Gb hard disk and
hers has a 20Gb hard disk, so it's not like we need an 8Tb file-server or
anything. :-)  Still, having a Terabyte or two available as backup storage,
with some sort of rsyncing going on would be comforting.

 

What would you suggest?

 

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