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 1LTEXi-0004nO-Vz for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 31 Jan 2009 12:01:47 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 37855E0443; Sat, 31 Jan 2009 12:01:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org (mail.ukfsn.org [77.75.108.10]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D9C6E0443 for ; Sat, 31 Jan 2009 12:01:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 678C6DED13 for ; Sat, 31 Jan 2009 12:01:46 +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 bKZBC0fgaYxS for ; Sat, 31 Jan 2009 10:38:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: from wstn.ethnet (unknown [78.32.181.186]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4198ADED16 for ; Sat, 31 Jan 2009 12:01:46 +0000 (GMT) From: Peter Humphrey Organization: at home To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: homemade nas setup Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 11:39:44 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 References: <87y6wtlksy.fsf@newsguy.com> <200901301043.39395.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> <87r62klk8e.fsf@newsguy.com> In-Reply-To: <87r62klk8e.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: <200901311139.44342.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> X-Archives-Salt: 159b766e-8c41-477f-a438-d56e8297ecb2 X-Archives-Hash: b2b6c6672aac51d99bd8d90ef97e82af On Friday 30 January 2009 18:30:41 Harry Putnam wrote: > Peter Humphrey writes: > > 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. > > Well, that isn't even close to nas... but thanks. No, of course not, and what's more it denies you the fun of getting another gizmo working, but for simplicity it's hard to beat. For my purposes, anyway. -- Rgds Peter