[ale] NAS: any ideas

[Stephan Uphoff]

Mhhh ... you are planning to use the NAS as a mobile staging area?

Do you need a way to push backup data from your backup clients
because you don't want to implement a pull solution for security
reasons?

If not why not use bacula or some other backup tools.

Even a linux laptop as a mobile storage archive sounds like
a better idea. ( Neither CIFS nor NFS on a NAS is build for 
streaming and the laptop is build to survive regular movement)

On a last note - nothing beats a (professional) tape in reliability
and it makes offsite storage really easy.

Don't get me wrong - I love NAS - I just don't think this is the right
tool for your problem.

	Stephan 


On Sun, 2004-08-29 at 12:01, Brandon Colbert wrote:
> Jonathan Rickman wrote:
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> >>From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On
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> >>Sent: Saturday, August 28, 2004 3:26 PM
> >>To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> >>Subject: [ale] NAS: any ideas
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> >>The company I do work for is looking to setup offsite
> >>storage; I was think about setting up a NAS device to backup
> >>the backup. This will allow the owner to bring the NAS device
> >>in plug it into a ethernet jack and backup the data. When the
> >>backup is complete he will be able to take the NAS device
> >>home or I could set the NAS to backup over the VPN to an
> >>offsite location.
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> >>Do anybody have any good ideas?
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> >How much data are we talking about here?
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