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The wireless part of the requirements is what a wifi router is for
and shouldn't have anything to do with a NAS unless you want to pay
more.<br>
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For backups, you just want a disk area to write from each client on
the NAS. For Linux and Windows, there are lots and lots of FLOSS
tools that do this. Windows7-Pro has a built-in network backup tool
that works just fine. Here's a short list of other backup
softwares:<br>
- Duplicati / Duplicity (was extremely slow in my testing,
traditional backup methods + encryption)<br>
- BackupPC <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/">http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/</a><br>
- Bacula<br>
- Amanda<br>
- rdiff-backup (my favorite, reverse incrementals, FAST, efficient,
Linux + Windows, but no GUI)<br>
- Back-In-Time (GUI, very simple, needs hard links)<br>
- rBackup <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rbackup.lescigales.org/">http://rbackup.lescigales.org/</a><br>
- rsnapshot (no GUI, dependent on hard links)<br>
- LVM2 snapshots<br>
- ZFS + zsend<br>
<br>
I think pros/cons of backup software would be a great discussion for
the list at large. <br>
<br>
IMHO, rsync-only doesn't cut it. Without differential backups, you
can still end up losing all your data if a virus hits and you don't
notice it before mirroring everything. rsync is better than no
backups, just not optimal for the effort when rdiff-backup command
line is almost the same as rsync, but provides efficient,
incremental, reverse backups (i.e. latest backup looks like a mirror
and older backups are compressed diffs).<br>
<br>
Offsite data - I'd be interested in how others do it for 1-2TB worth
and what it costs annually assuming 1 full restore a year. I'm being
highly selective for what is pushed today, but there's always a
desire for more to be pushed.<br>
<br>
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On 01/30/2011 12:18 PM, Asher Vilensky wrote:
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Hi folks,<br>
<br>
I'm shopping for a home storage solution and thought to gather
info from the experience of users. Here are my requirements:<br>
<br>
<ul>
<li> Need to support Mac, Windows (Samba ok), and Linux
filesystems. Yup, all three. </li>
<li> Need to be quite (we live in a small house...can't use a
noisy machine). </li>
<li> Should have wireless accessibility so that wireless
computers can push data onto the device. </li>
<li> Backup: Either have backup capabilities or have something
that can push data onto an internet based backup. The net
backup is almost preferred as it backs up the device itself.<br>
</li>
</ul>
<br>
Comments will be welcome.<br>
<br>
Thanks.<br>
<br>
-- Asher </blockquote>
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