Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
> Holger Parplies wrote at about 13:57:35 +0100 on Monday, October 27, 2008:
>  > This probably means you shouldn't backup to an NFS mounted pool (which you
>  > probably shouldn't do for performance reasons anyway).
> 
> What is the alternative if you don't have room on your server and if
> you can't "afford" something fancier than a SAN?
> For me, using NAS is very economical given the cost of drives and the
> existence of cheap embedded Linux NAS devices. Maybe I am missing an
> easy better alternative.
> 
I'm not sure what a NAS costs these days, but my BackupPC server is a
white box desktop-class machine with SATA drives in software RAID 1.  It
cost me $600.  It runs the server software and stores the backups locally.

You can keep it cheap by using a mini/micro ATX motherboard -- they've
usually got onboard video and onboard LAN, and you're not likely to need
much in the way of PCI slots.  Just make sure the motherboard has plenty
of room for expansion in terms of RAM and hard disks.

-Rob
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