[Chester LUG] Home Backup Solution

[M. Crilly]

Hello,

For my two internal media and software HDDs, I'd just use a simple rsync
like your self and then encrypt them once they're on the NAS - wouldn't
want someone hacking into my network and having access to all my legal
(honest - it's all DVD and CD backups) media, movies, games, software etc.
I'll review FreeNAS and see if it fits my needs - it probably does - and
throw a cheap box together. I just need something that's relatively quiet;
server cases are expensive these days but the noise polution can be
countered with sound proof insulation.

Something else that's on my mind. You guys reckon it's safer from a HDD
failure point of view, to have two 500gB HDDs rather than a single 1tB?
Obviously from a price point of view the single drive wins (or so I
believe).

- mc

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 On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:41:09 +0100, "Les Pritchard" wrote:
  Hi,
 HDDs seem to be by far the cheapest option for backups, but you are
relying on disks.  Saying that, I've seen backup tapes fail quite a
few times in the past.
 I'm a believer in keeping it simple for backups, so I use a NAS box
to store my backups.  I have a simple shell script that rsyncs my data
over and maintains diffs.  For the NAS side of it, I use FreeNAS and a
Solaris box with ZFS.
 Les
  On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 12:58 PM, M. Crilly  wrote:
 Hi,
 I was wondering - how do you guys deal with data backups at home?
I'm
 looking for a backup solution that can support a lot of data; a good
1-2tB
 of storage would be nice for all my media and software, etc...
 Any suggestions on hardware/software?
  -- MC
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