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Re: [BackupPC-users] Best NAS device to run BackupPC ?
2011-05-17 13:13:04
The interest of a NAS is that it provides a strong RAID system with a lightweight Linux system on top - and this at a reasonable price.
If you want a good RAID system on a standard server/desktop it becomes really more expensive (as RAID systems are generally not in the default configuration).
The drawbacks of NAS is that the CPU is usually quite weak (not enough for BackupPC ?) - and also that they don't have a standard Linux distrib, so you may not be able to apply Debian packages or RPMs...
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Laurent
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 6:20 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
On 5/17/2011 10:25 AM, Timothy J Massey wrote:
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> One option for using a NAS is to use a standard PC in front of it and
> mount the NAS via iSCSI (**NOT** NFS!!!) and use the NAS' storage that
> way. That will give you the best results: many have tried to use pools
> mounted via NFS, and few (none?) have succeeded.
Is there some reason for using a NAS? The only real win would probably
be power consumption compared to slapping some big drives in an older PC.
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