I currently backup my entire desktop to a "sever" sitting downstairs. I work on (mostly photos) locally on the desktop and then back them up to the downstairs machine which has raided disks (as I don't trust disks, I have had too many fail).
This means I need 3 disks to store data on. The thought just occurred that perhaps I should get rid of the disk from the machine upstairs, or at least make it a minimal boot-only and swap disk. How fast a network do I need to make this work sensible? Is gigabit network enough? Photo processing is quite data intensive, especially when batching conversion on my 6 core desktop, currently I think the disk I/O is my limit to go faster. Anton -- Anton Piatek email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos: http://www.strangeparty.com pgp: [74B1FA37] (http://www.strangeparty.com/anton.asc) fingerprint: 7401 96D3 E037 2F8F 5965 A358 4046 71FD 74B1 FA37 No trees were destroyed in the sending of this message, however, a significant number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------
