Re: [cobalt-users] NAS as additional/secondary storage?

["Steve Werby" <steve-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Glenn Parsons" <gparsons@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> That's what I've done: PII-300Mhz, 192MB, 1.2GB HD for the OS, mount 80GB
> HD on /home. rsync data over SSH from 20 servers.

Glenn, I'm with you on that.  And I take it you're running a distro that's
freely available.  All of my production servers are in data centers, but I
usually have about 10-15 development, testing and desktop boxes (even a
trusty RaQ2) on the office network, backing up via SSH (rsync and/or custom
scripts depending on the box).  Without a second drive a used machine like
that should be easy to find for ~$100, and I've seen 80 GB drives for well
under $100 new after rebates so a capable backup server should be in the
$200 range.

> Rotate drives as budget and disaster recovery dictates.

This is probably starting to stray pretty far off-topic, but are you saying
that you rotate the backup server's drive when it's full and store the just
removed drive somewhere or is just your recommendation?  What I do is
automatically transfer the most critical files to a server off-site nighly,
transfer nearly all of the files to a server off-site bi-monthly and burn
CDs of the most critical data every 2 months and store them at a different
phyisical location I can get to quickly.  I'll probably purchase a DVDR in
the next few months and burn DVDs since it'll save me enough time to justify
it.

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