Hello, all:
Here's an oddball question. I have a small Windows NT Server network at
home that frankly I use mostly for storing all sorts of crap -- classic and
other. It's overkill (Compaq dual PPro200 3U server and 4-drive RAID 5 and
10gb DLT) for what I need but the price was good.
With hard drive densities continuing to increase I was toying with building
some sort of NAS unit to replace the server. So, I'm looking for suggestions
on building a stand-alone, small NAS system, maybe using Linux, and it has
to be more appliance-like rather than a full-blown system. Any thoughts or
suggestions on implementation?
On an unrelated note, I'd like to automatically mirror the information on
the RAID to a cheap 40gb drive (because I'm too lazy to mount the tape and
do a backup). I have some server-oriented backup probrams but they don't
allow you to backup to a file -- you can only back up to a physical tape
drive. Any thoughts on this?
Rich
Rich Cini
Collector of classic computers
Build Master for the Altair32 Emulation Project
Web site:
http://highgate.comm.sfu.ca/~rcini/classiccmp/
/************************************************************/
Received on Sun Nov 16 2003 - 09:06:34 GMT