Philip Stubbs wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> It is about time that I had a proper back-up solution for my home
> machines. At the moment I just randomly copy stuff between machines
> that I think is important. I have a dual booting laptop
> (Windows+Ubuntu) a Desktop (Ubuntu) and my noddy home server w
Hi Philip,
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 01:33:04PM +, Philip Stubbs wrote:
> All I worry about is a drive failure. It has happened before, and will
> happen again. I don't need to be able to go back X number of days for
> a previous version of Y or recover deleted Z.
If you don't care about the po
Philip Stubbs wrote:
> I remember seeing a simple device that would allow USB hard drives to
> be connected. This is the sort of thing that I had in mind, but
> wondered if anybody had any experience with something like this a bit
> more recently.
>
I have been using a Linksys NSLU2 for several
> I know that many are amazed at how slack some peoples backups are, and
> I know that my current situation is among them. However, in my
> defence, my computer is more a toy than a business tool. My life would
> not grind to a halt should all my computers go up in a puff of smoke.
>
> That said, I
2009/2/25 Stephen Nelson-Smith :
> On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 10:07 AM, Philip Stubbs wrote:
>> Hi Everyone,
>>
>> It is about time that I had a proper back-up solution for my home
>> machines.
>
> Jolly good. Now let's define what that means - what failure scenarios
> are you trying to prepare for?
- Original Message -
From: "Philip Stubbs"
To: "Hampshire LUG Discussion List"
Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 10:07 AM
Subject: [Hampshire] Cheap and Easy NAS
> Hi Everyone,
>
> It is about time that I had a proper back-up solution for my home
>
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 10:07 AM, Philip Stubbs wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> It is about time that I had a proper back-up solution for my home
> machines.
Jolly good. Now let's define what that means - what failure scenarios
are you trying to prepare for? For example, do you care about your
data i
2009/2/25 Philip Stubbs :
> I could simply plug an external USB drive into the server, and back up
> to that. However, I understand that it would be better to keep it
> separate, and therefore I was wondering if anybody has a suggestion
> for a simple device that I could attach to my network that I
Hi Everyone,
It is about time that I had a proper back-up solution for my home
machines. At the moment I just randomly copy stuff between machines
that I think is important. I have a dual booting laptop
(Windows+Ubuntu) a Desktop (Ubuntu) and my noddy home server which
runs Debian.
I could simply
