On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 9:59 PM, Michael Conner <mdc1952 AT gmail DOT com> 
wrote:
> and a NAS (and may be adding another). Note that my Linux knowledge is still 
> limited but growing as I look at more open source stuff.

So here's another reason to set up that second NAS.

What I've done is set up a separate (bigger) NAS that also acts as my
backup server. It holds not only the backup sets, but all big files
that are both very large and not important enough to back up - easily
retrieved or recreated media filesets, cold-metal restore clone
images, ISO and thin client boot images and virtual machine images,
temporary scratch space for LVM snapshots, testing and in-process file
conversions, exports from version control systems, sync targets for
very-frequently backed up file sets (via Time Machine, Rsnapshot,
Unison). Etc.

So all "important" data is either on individual hosts or the central
NAS, and only data that is either "unimportant" or already being
backed up elsewhere is stored on the big cahuna NAS, which is also the
backup server.

Handled yet again separately is the offsite rotation of especially
important data sets to protect against theft and the various possible
site-level disasters.

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