off-site backup plan

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I would install a second eth? adapter in the "real" machine and have a cheap 
puter with a cold-swap SATA bay connected to it.
Every nite I wold WOL the little sucker, run the backup over the dedicated 
Ethernet, and shut it down.
Any hardware failure (other than the Ethernet) can be dealt with with cheap 
hardware and outside the boundaries of the server.
YMMV...    :)
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Alex Dean writes: 

> I make regular backups to a software RAID1 disk array.  I'd like to  
> periodically store some backups offsite.  Been thinking about buying 2  
> extra drives, and adding 1 of them as a hot spare to the RAID1.  Then  
> remove it from the array, store it elsewhere, and add the other disk  in 
> its place as the hot spare.  Every week or so, I'd plan to swap the  
> offsite disk with the current hot spare. 
> 
> It seems like this should work.  Anyone care to comment?  If I buy a  
> hot-swap drive bay for the server, can I add/remove normal SATA drives  
> without restarting the OS? 
> 
> I was looking at something like this StarTech caddie, which protects  the 
> disk a bit more than other disk enclosures.
> http://www.startech.com/item/DRW110SATBK-Black-Serial-ATA-Drive-Drawer-wit 
> h-Shock-Absorbers-Value-Series.aspx 
> 
> thanks,
> alex