Looking for Hardware Recommendations

[Mark Phillips]

Eric,

Thanks for your auggestions. I am guessing that I do need the speed. I
originally had the backups running to internal IDE drives on a P3 500 MHz
and there was not enough time at night to do all the backups. By that I mean
some backups had to be rescheduled. Now, I do not profess to be a backuppc
expert, and I have since read that using blowfish with ssh will speed that
up, and I may have had the backuppc maintenance running at the same time as
the  backups, which will slow it down. So, I have two more options to speed
things up in the configuration of the softbware.

I have 6 LAN machines, and three remote machines on the Internet. I use
backuppc with rsync over ssh. One of the LAN and one of the remote machines
are servers with medium size databases, so they take time to snapshot (OODB,
not msyql).

Instead of making this project a large research project to time everything
and figure out what I need exactly (I am not being paid for this work!), I
decided to spend a few more bucks on the eSata stuff since it is as fast as
I can go within a reasonable budget, and then tweak the backuppc configs as
needed if I run out of bandwidth. Not very scientific, but somewhat
practical and a little more expensive.

As always, I am open to differing opinions and new ideas, so don't worry
about offending me if you think I am totally missing the mark! (no pun
intended).

Mark

On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 3:46 PM, Eric Shubert <ejs at shubes.net> wrote:

> Mark Phillips wrote:
> > I need to set up a backup drive(s) for several home machines. I want to
> > use external Sata drives. My older P4 machine has a PCI 2.2 bus, so I
> > need a recommendation for a Sata drive controller card for one or two
> > external Sata 2 drives. The card has to work with Debian and backuppc.
> > Also, a recommendation for 1 TB+ eSata drives.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Mark
> >
>
> Do you really need the speed for backups? You might consider using USB2
> instead of eSATA. I have external backup drives configured mirrored
> (with software raid-1) on USB2. It works nicely. It's not as fast as
> eSATA would be, but it's adequate.
>
> --
> -Eric 'shubes'
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