John E. Perry wrote: > Randall R Schulz wrote: > >> ... >> >> There are also now storage appliances that implement NFS and / or >> SMB/CIFS (accessed via Samba from Unix / Linux systems or via the >> built-in file sharing from Windows systems). These are basically >> stand-alone boxes with disks (often RAID arrays), a simple server >> computer and an Ethernet connection. >> > > Be nice if I could afford it. A semi-employed electronics engineer 60+ > years old has to watch his spending pretty carefully between contracts. > >
Those external hard drives I mentioned are fairly cheap. And you can always fire up an old computer with Linux and use it as a "server", to hold your backups. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
