From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LSqrq-0001ky-Hg for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 10:44:58 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 40560E02BF; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 10:44:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org (mail.ukfsn.org [77.75.108.10]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17EF3E02BF for ; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 10:44:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0339CDEE11 for ; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 10:44:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org ([192.168.54.25]) by localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id w0X-ayxaWzMq for ; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 09:22:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: from wstn.ethnet (unknown [78.32.181.186]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFC73DEE04 for ; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 10:44:57 +0000 (GMT) From: Peter Humphrey Organization: at home To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] homemade nas setup Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 10:43:39 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 References: <87y6wtlksy.fsf@newsguy.com> In-Reply-To: <87y6wtlksy.fsf@newsguy.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200901301043.39395.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> X-Archives-Salt: 76088200-9b7e-45ff-9394-3275f4011af9 X-Archives-Hash: 08ad955ef3158062fe22568e54a2b89b On Friday 30 January 2009 00:06:05 Harry Putnam wrote: > I've been looking into setting up or getting somekind of nas > storage/backup capability lately so thought I'd ask about it here > since I'm sure some of you will be using something or will have built > your own. I just bought a USB hard disk and plug it into whichever box I want to back up. Each box has a small rescue system, which I boot into to make the backup to ensure that all files are copied. Just a simple tar command, without compression for speed. -- Rgds Peter