[Wolves] Hard Disks and backups

[Chris Procter]

Hi,
A bit of advice needed.

I need to set up a backup server for a bunch of windows machines. I have an
old machine (p 200MHz ?) and authority to buy a couple of 120Gb hard disks.
I'm going to set up samba and use a cron job to copy all our important data
onto the server nightly, then back that up onto tape so I have three copies
the live, the backup, and the tape.

So:
Can Linux do disk mirroring out of the box (without hardware support, I dont
have any RAID controllers or anything clever like that).

Does Linux support HP Travan tape drives?

Any recommendations on hard disks (speed isn't important but reliability and
cost are)

Anything else I should take into consideration?


chris


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