Hi, > 2TB external USB hard drive
^ that's the problem right there, not so much the CPU or the RAM, but the USB bus. and yea Keith is right about getting a server that has next business day support (e.g. from Dell) if you're serious about backups. > The environment I am trying to back up is 23 laptops, mostly OS X. They > are generally only on the network from 10am - 5pm. The pool size is > 434.71GB comprising 4522859 files and 4369 directories. Our network is > 100Mbps. I'm curious as to what your backup window is and what transfer protocol you're using? Our users wouldn't be able to take the lag on their machines if backups were occurring during business hours. Then if they go off the network after EOB, how do you do backups Here's a cheap setup I'd get from Dell (US business website): PowerEdge T110 Chassis with upto 4 Cabled Hard Drives Processor Intel® Core™ I3 530 2.93GHz, 4M Cache, 2Cores / 4Threads, 1066MHz Memory 1GB Memory (1x1GB), 1066MHz, Single Ranked UDIMM edit Hard Drives 160GB 7.2k RPM Serial ATA 3Gbps 3.5-in Cabled Hard Drive edit DVD+-RW drive (adds $30, you could remove this really) 3yr NBD onsite warranty total = $600 when you incl shipping + tax from Dell. Then figure out what memory you need for this box from crucial.com (Dell charges too much). I'd get about 4GB then you could get the equivalent Micron RAM part for much cheaper from these guys: https://usm.channelonline.com/floridamicro/storesite/Search/Category/ Just, don't get generic (desktop/value ram) cause it won't work in Dell servers. Finally get 3 1.5TB seagate drives (i think these are still the best $/GB ?) and create a software RAID5. Again don't get these from Dell since they over charge. You can use the 160GB as the OS drive. That should put you between $1-1.1K . I wouldn't spend money on fancy hardware raid cards unless your daily backup size is several TB (e.g. >4TB). HTH, Sabuj Pattanayek ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Throughout its 18-year history, RSA Conference consistently attracts the world's best and brightest in the field, creating opportunities for Conference attendees to learn about information security's most important issues through interactions with peers, luminaries and emerging and established companies. http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsaconf-dev2dev _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
