[Wolves] Hard Disks and backups

[David Goodwin]

Chris Procter wrote:
> 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)
> 

Avoid any IBM drives (or who ever bought IBM's hdd unit?) and Fujitsu .

Maxtor seem to be ok (to me) and are normally quite cheap.

David.