Hello Dan & ...,

back from a 2 weeks vacation time to implemend your ideas about how to 
backup the backuppc-server.

I'll try to add a 3rd harddrive to my RAID1-setup.

As far I understand you also mentioned two other possibilities:

1) builting a iSCSI-device by using another pc. I didn't know that this 
is possible, but doing while browsing the web, I found:

"Don't put your iSCSI SAN on your regular IP network, either. There's 
plenty of traffic running over that, and iSCSI is bandwidth-intensive. 
Also consider whether your servers have enough CPU power to handle 
iSCSI. Unwrapping and reassembling iSCSI packets can take a lot of CPU 
time."

Since I didn't found a beginner-friendly step-by-step guide, I think I 
have to wait until I gain more experience in order to try to setup an 
own iSCSI-device.

2) AoE - ATA-over-Ethernet.
Sounds really interesting but also seems to be harder to implement than 
adding another disk to my raid-system.

> Maybe I'm crazy, I don't know!

uhm .. maybe you just know much much more than I know about linux, 
server-administration :-)

As soon as I have succesfully added more disks to my raid I'll update 
the wiki and will also your ideas (iSCSI, AoE).


- Kurt

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