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Cheap server for home backup?
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| jtsnow 2005-01-17, 5:45 pm |
| I want to have another PC on my home LAN to use to run the External 250 GB
HD backup I used to backup 4 PCs.
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 |
| See my reply in alt.backup-software
Foz
jtsnow wrote:
> I want to have another PC on my home LAN to use to run the External 250 GB
> HD backup I used to backup 4 PCs.
> 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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| Yura Pismerov 2005-01-17, 8:45 pm |
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http://www.linksys.com/products/pro...cid=43&prid=640
jtsnow wrote:
> I want to have another PC on my home LAN to use to run the External 250 GB
> HD backup I used to backup 4 PCs.
> 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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| Al Dykes 2005-01-18, 2:45 am |
| In article <qPXGd.11655$Tf5.1638@lakeread03>, jtsnow <jtsnow@yahoo.com> wrote:
>I want to have another PC on my home LAN to use to run the External 250 GB
>HD backup I used to backup 4 PCs.
>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!
>
>
You can buy a USB2 PCMCIA card for a few bucks.
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