Little linux backup box - wisdom required

[Jason Shaw]

I run debian on a DreamPlug (
http://www.globalscaletechnologies.com/t-dreamplugdetails.aspx ) that
has an eSATA JBoD box hooked up to it with software RAID1.  It runs
samba for sharing media, BackupPC for rsync backups of the other
computers in the house, Transmission Daemon for downloads, and a few
other things.  The eSATA connection is faster than USB, although in
hindsight, I sort of wish I'd bought an eSATA box with hardware RAID
as the little ARM processor struggles occasionally with the software
RAID.

I've been running this for around 6 months now and it's been fine.
Need to do some rewiring of the house though so that my Boxee Box can
stop using wireless for streaming, but that's nothing to do with
backup solutions.

-jason

On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 8:25 AM, Mauro Souza <thoriumbr-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> I have a discontinued Chumby Hacker Board running Debian, samba, with a
> external USB disk and connected to my network. On my computers I have
> dèjá-dup running, and backing my home every day. I have it working for 2+
> years, and I am happy with it. Chumby is even my torrentbox and I can play
> my movies straight from that USB disk.
> I intend to upgrade my Chumby to a RasPi some day int he future, but as
> Chumby is running fine, I think I will keep it as it is.
>
> Mauro
> http://mauro.limeiratem.com - registered Linux User: 294521
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>
> 2013/2/22 William Park <opengeometry-FFYn/CNdgSA at public.gmane.org>
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 05:37:36PM -0500, Stewart Russell wrote:
>> > All this talk of drive features has got me questioning my backup
>> > strategy,
>> > which is somewhere between ad hoc and none at all. I'm considering
>> > setting
>> > up the following box:
>> > * QNAP TS-419P II 4-bay NAS: <
>> > http://www.qnap.com/useng/?lang=en-us&sn=862&c=355&sc=688&t=695&n=3888>
>> > * 4x WD Red 2TB drives.
>> > * Crashplan cloud backup for all my (cross-platform)  machines and the
>> > NAS
>> > itself. Anything that can't run Crashplan (not sure how well the Java
>> > client would run on a Raspberry Pi ...) would rsync to the NAS box,
>> > which
>> > itself would be running Crashplan.
>> >
>> > The QNAP is a little ARM Linux box. I'm not really looking to build a
>> > custom box unless it's cheaper, quieter and uses less power than the
>> > QNAP.
>> > It supports a bunch of RAID levels, so could in theory could be a 6TB
>> > RAID5, or a 4TB RAID6 (less the usual system and marketing overhead).
>> > I'm
>> > more interested in data integrity than flat-out transfer speed.
>> >
>> > If a single drive failed, would either of these RAID levels be able to
>> > realistically carry on without data loss until I replaced the faulty
>> > unit?
>> >
>> > Is it really worth going for non-sequential serial numbers on the
>> > drives?
>> > Apart from buying a single drive from different stores, how would one do
>> > this?
>> >
>> > Wisdom appreciated, thanks. Point-and-laugh is also okay, as long as you
>> > say why, and what you'd do better.
>> >
>> > cheers,
>> >  Stewart
>>
>> I would've gone with 4-bay USB3 external instead.  It's local mount, and
>> you can simply do "rsync" daily and "rsync --delete" weekly.  I'm
>> currently doing daily rsync to RAID10 as backup.  I personally don't own
>> NAS.  But, watching people who do, I don't want to maintain/upgrade yet
>> another machine.
>> --
>> William
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