[ale] Home NAS

[JD]

The wireless part of the requirements is what a wifi router is for and 
shouldn't have anything to do with a NAS unless you want to pay more.

For backups, you just want a disk area to write from each client on the 
NAS. For Linux and Windows, there are lots and lots of FLOSS tools that 
do this. Windows7-Pro has a built-in network backup tool that works just 
fine.  Here's a short list of other backup softwares:
- Duplicati / Duplicity (was extremely slow in my testing, traditional 
backup methods + encryption)
- BackupPC http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
- Bacula
- Amanda
- rdiff-backup (my favorite, reverse incrementals, FAST, efficient, 
Linux + Windows, but no GUI)
- Back-In-Time (GUI, very simple, needs hard links)
- rBackup http://rbackup.lescigales.org/
- rsnapshot (no GUI, dependent on hard links)
- LVM2 snapshots
- ZFS + zsend

I think pros/cons of backup software would be a great discussion for the 
list at large.

IMHO, rsync-only doesn't cut it. Without differential backups, you can 
still end up losing all your data if a virus hits and you don't notice 
it before mirroring everything. rsync is better than no backups, just 
not optimal for the effort when rdiff-backup command line is almost the 
same as rsync, but provides efficient, incremental, reverse backups 
(i.e. latest backup looks like a mirror and older backups are compressed 
diffs).

Offsite data - I'd be interested in how others do it for 1-2TB worth and 
what it costs annually assuming 1 full restore a year. I'm being highly 
selective for what is pushed today, but there's always a desire for more 
to be pushed.


On 01/30/2011 12:18 PM, Asher Vilensky wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I'm shopping for a home storage solution and thought to gather info 
> from the experience of users.  Here are my requirements:
>
>     * Need to support Mac, Windows (Samba ok), and Linux filesystems. 
>       Yup, all three.
>     * Need to be quite (we live in a small house...can't use a noisy
>       machine).
>     * Should have wireless accessibility so that wireless computers
>       can push data onto the device.
>     * Backup:  Either have backup capabilities or have something that
>       can push data onto  an internet based backup. The net backup is
>       almost preferred as it backs up the device itself.
>
>
> Comments will be welcome.
>
> Thanks.
>
> -- Asher 

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