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Cheap backup server?
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| jtsnow 2005-01-17, 5:45 pm |
| I want to have another PC on my home LAN to use as server to run the
External 250 GB HD backup I used to backup 4 PCs running XP.
I have 4 PCs on my LAN and when they backup over LAN it bogs down the PC I
use, this is the same PC that interfaces (USB 2.0) to the External HD.
What is the cheapest way to get a server (or is there a simple device that
will act like a server) to interface from the ethernet (100 baseT) LAN to my
External USB HD backup?
I have a spare old laptop that would work, but I need USB 2.0 for the HD and
it doesnt have that.
Any thoughts or tips or suggestions are appreciated!
Thanks!
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| Frank Foss 2005-01-17, 8:45 pm |
| Maybe a Snap Appliance:
http://www.snapappliance.com/page.c...00main&nav=1100
250 GB in a plug-and-play. about $500,
speaks SMB/CIFS/HTTP/NFS and most other protocols. Multi-user, access
control and all that good stuff.
I have one right here, works like a charm, I love it.
Or: a lan-attached HD Ximeta NetDisk
http://www.ximeta.com/products/netw...disk/index.html
Can be shared via LAN (does NOT need tcp/ip)
Nice and convenient, both Ethernet and USB.
Dunno about pricing.
Both these will save you the headache of making your own pc-based server.
jtsnow wrote:
> I want to have another PC on my home LAN to use as server to run the
> External 250 GB HD backup I used to backup 4 PCs running XP.
> I have 4 PCs on my LAN and when they backup over LAN it bogs down the PC I
> use, this is the same PC that interfaces (USB 2.0) to the External HD.
>
> What is the cheapest way to get a server (or is there a simple device that
> will act like a server) to interface from the ethernet (100 baseT) LAN to my
> External USB HD backup?
>
> I have a spare old laptop that would work, but I need USB 2.0 for the HD and
> it doesnt have that.
>
> Any thoughts or tips or suggestions are appreciated!
>
> Thanks!
>
>
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| jtsnow 2005-01-17, 8:45 pm |
| nice! Ill check em out..thanks!
"Frank Foss" <fozzie_beer@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Maybe a Snap Appliance:
> http://www.snapappliance.com/page.c...00main&nav=1100
> 250 GB in a plug-and-play. about $500,
> speaks SMB/CIFS/HTTP/NFS and most other protocols. Multi-user, access
> control and all that good stuff.
> I have one right here, works like a charm, I love it.
>
> Or: a lan-attached HD Ximeta NetDisk
> http://www.ximeta.com/products/netw...disk/index.html
>
> Can be shared via LAN (does NOT need tcp/ip)
> Nice and convenient, both Ethernet and USB.
> Dunno about pricing.
>
> Both these will save you the headache of making your own pc-based server.
>
> jtsnow wrote:
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| Steven Toney 2005-01-18, 7:45 am |
| look at thiese products by linksys
http://www.linksys.com/products/gro...grid=35&scid=43
the storage link makes a NAS from usb 2 external drives
d-link also makes one but it's firmware is not ready for prime time yet
"jtsnow" <jtsnow@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>I want to have another PC on my home LAN to use as server to run the
>External 250 GB HD backup I used to backup 4 PCs running XP.
> I have 4 PCs on my LAN and when they backup over LAN it bogs down the PC I
> use, this is the same PC that interfaces (USB 2.0) to the External HD.
>
> What is the cheapest way to get a server (or is there a simple device that
> will act like a server) to interface from the ethernet (100 baseT) LAN to
> my External USB HD backup?
>
> I have a spare old laptop that would work, but I need USB 2.0 for the HD
> and it doesnt have that.
>
> Any thoughts or tips or suggestions are appreciated!
>
> Thanks!
>
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| jtsnow 2005-01-18, 8:49 pm |
| thanks. when reading the reviews on the Linksys it doesnt do well.
Problems stated were:
locks up frequently
wont power itself up power loss.
Uses proprietary disk format.
Have to lose any data on disk to format.
also then cant just hook disk up to PC anymore to get data off it cus of
different format.
wont format over a 80g HD
Seems about 50% were thumbs down....CNET etc.
Doesnt sound like its ready for prime time either. What do you think?
"Steven Toney" <toneys@ibm.net> wrote in message
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> look at thiese products by linksys
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> http://www.linksys.com/products/gro...grid=35&scid=43
>
> the storage link makes a NAS from usb 2 external drives
>
> d-link also makes one but it's firmware is not ready for prime time yet
>
>
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> "jtsnow" <jtsnow@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:IVXGd.11662$Tf5.4457@lakeread03...
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| jtsnow 2005-01-18, 8:49 pm |
| thanks. when reading the reviews on the Linksys it doesnt do well.
Problems stated were:
locks up frequently
wont power itself up power loss.
Uses proprietary disk format.
Have to lose any data on disk to format.
also then cant just hook disk up to PC anymore to get data off it cus of
different format.
wont format over a 80g HD.
Major problem then also is cant save images of disk for backup for complete
disk restore.
Seems about 50% were thumbs down....CNET etc.
Doesnt sound like its ready for prime time . What do you think?
"Steven Toney" <toneys@ibm.net> wrote in message
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> look at thiese products by linksys
>
> http://www.linksys.com/products/gro...grid=35&scid=43
>
> the storage link makes a NAS from usb 2 external drives
>
> d-link also makes one but it's firmware is not ready for prime time yet
>
>
>
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> "jtsnow" <jtsnow@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:IVXGd.11662$Tf5.4457@lakeread03...
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| Steven Toney 2005-01-19, 2:45 am |
| I set onw up for a friend and the only one of the issue below I have seen is
the proprietary format and not being able to plu the usb drive into windows
to use it -- that would be nice, but the drive are in some linux base file
system
I formatted to matrox 250g usb drive on the thing with no problems
it was on a UPS - so I so no issue with power
The dlink came back on after a power outage and it see NTFS drives and FAT32
drive, by you have no permission to create new root folders and the like
I was able to copy and read files from the dlink
"jtsnow" <jtsnow@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> thanks. when reading the reviews on the Linksys it doesnt do well.
> Problems stated were:
> locks up frequently
> wont power itself up power loss.
> Uses proprietary disk format.
> Have to lose any data on disk to format.
> also then cant just hook disk up to PC anymore to get data off it cus of
> different format.
> wont format over a 80g HD
> Seems about 50% were thumbs down....CNET etc.
>
> Doesnt sound like its ready for prime time either. What do you think?
>
>
> "Steven Toney" <toneys@ibm.net> wrote in message
> news:Uw7Hd.9732$pZ4.7865@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net...
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>
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| jtsnow 2005-01-19, 2:45 am |
| thats good to know.
One major issue I have, and maybe its not an issue...
Is that I must be able to do image copies for entire disk restore.
I use Ghost 9.0 for that. If it has its own file format, will Ghost still
be able to store the image file and restore to a NTFS from the proprietary
format?
"Steven Toney" <toneys@ibm.net> wrote in message
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>I set onw up for a friend and the only one of the issue below I have seen
>is the proprietary format and not being able to plu the usb drive into
>windows to use it -- that would be nice, but the drive are in some linux
>base file system
>
> I formatted to matrox 250g usb drive on the thing with no problems
>
> it was on a UPS - so I so no issue with power
>
> The dlink came back on after a power outage and it see NTFS drives and
> FAT32 drive, by you have no permission to create new root folders and the
> like
>
> I was able to copy and read files from the dlink
>
>
> "jtsnow" <jtsnow@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:jjjHd.11883$Tf5.3508@lakeread03...
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| Steven Toney 2005-01-19, 5:46 pm |
| it looks like a network server file share to other PC and image software
I use acronis trueimage and set that up for my friend on the linksys with no
problem -- backups or restores
if you can boot a full bootable CD from acronis -- it sees the network on
the PC
I expect ghost would be similar - I used to use ghost 2003 and driveimage -
but gave them up for acronis trueimage
no had a problem
I backup five PC here at home - well 4 wired PC and a notebook across
wireless g -- probably would have to plug in a wire on the notebook for a
restore -- need to test that one
I have restore to spare harddrives in 3 of the wired machines as a test --
so I trust my recovery system
"jtsnow" <jtsnow@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> thats good to know.
> One major issue I have, and maybe its not an issue...
>
> Is that I must be able to do image copies for entire disk restore.
> I use Ghost 9.0 for that. If it has its own file format, will Ghost still
> be able to store the image file and restore to a NTFS from the proprietary
> format?
>
> "Steven Toney" <toneys@ibm.net> wrote in message
> news:PdkHd.10270$pZ4.6639@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net...
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