Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
> 
>  > 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?

The really cheap solution is to throw some big IDE/SATA drives in a 
desktop machine that doesn't do anything else at night anyway.

> 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.

If you have space near your server you could also add an external drive 
enclosure and an eSATA card to connect it.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com


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