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 1LSy9A-0002be-2j for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 18:31:20 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E1B36E03D6; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 18:31:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF8F5E03D6 for ; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 18:31:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6197B64283 for ; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 18:31:17 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.533 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.533 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.066, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-1] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id kLApeghz1o3W for ; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 18:31:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AF5F6422C for ; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 18:31:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LSy8x-0000ET-0E for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 18:31:07 +0000 Received: from c-98-215-178-6.hsd1.in.comcast.net ([98.215.178.6]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 18:31:06 +0000 Received: from reader by c-98-215-178-6.hsd1.in.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 18:31:06 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Harry Putnam Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: homemade nas setup Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 12:30:41 -0600 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <87r62klk8e.fsf@newsguy.com> References: <87y6wtlksy.fsf@newsguy.com> <200901301043.39395.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> 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=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-98-215-178-6.hsd1.in.comcast.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:/QU7I7mSsU2bSB8kLGube075YKA= Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: ebc20158-0278-4831-913e-76fe4e5390a2 X-Archives-Hash: f727126c7698259663bab7541bbe9fea Peter Humphrey writes: > 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. Well, that isn't even close to nas... but thanks.