Comments on: More on my file server http://www.jackscott.id.au/2008/09/more-on-my-file-server/ Then, one day, I found myself all grown up with my own point of view... Sat, 04 Sep 2010 17:53:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Jack http://www.jackscott.id.au/2008/09/more-on-my-file-server/#comment-137 Jack Sun, 28 Sep 2008 05:59:45 +0000 http://jackscott.org/?p=70#comment-137 Both my laptop and my step-father's office machine will make automatic nightly backups of their most important data (MYOB data files for him, emails and source code for me) to the server. Vista has a built-in backup program, and I'll be making full use of that. While I won't have automatic backups of the data on the file server to another medium, I do plan on backing up manually the most important data (see above) to a collection of external hard disk drives I have lying around. For the majority of the data though, yes, I am relying on the RAID-5. Thinking about it now though, I may make that automatic as well. I have one of <a href="http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=4459" rel="nofollow">these</a> that I could put in the machine and use. Only problem with that is sacrificing two HDD bays to fit it in. Both my laptop and my step-father’s office machine will make automatic nightly backups of their most important data (MYOB data files for him, emails and source code for me) to the server. Vista has a built-in backup program, and I’ll be making full use of that.

While I won’t have automatic backups of the data on the file server to another medium, I do plan on backing up manually the most important data (see above) to a collection of external hard disk drives I have lying around. For the majority of the data though, yes, I am relying on the RAID-5.

Thinking about it now though, I may make that automatic as well. I have one of these that I could put in the machine and use. Only problem with that is sacrificing two HDD bays to fit it in.

]]> By: Thomas Karpiniec http://www.jackscott.id.au/2008/09/more-on-my-file-server/#comment-138 Thomas Karpiniec Sun, 28 Sep 2008 04:51:46 +0000 http://jackscott.org/?p=70#comment-138 I'm wondering; for such a significantly sized file server are you setting up any particular backup systems apart from the RAID-5 redundancy? Or from the other perspective, any systems to make backups _to_ the file server? I’m wondering; for such a significantly sized file server are you setting up any particular backup systems apart from the RAID-5 redundancy? Or from the other perspective, any systems to make backups _to_ the file server?

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