Re: off-site backup plan

That's pretty much what this server already does. Every night it
wakes up every other machine in the house, makes a backup of each, and
then puts the other machine back to sleep. Now, I'm trying to make a
plan for those backups to survive the house burning down or some other
total catastrophe. I don't want to lose 10 years of digital photos in
an emergency like that, and pushing all this data over my internet
connection isn't feasible.

alex

On Oct 20, 2009, at 6:42 AM, kitepilot@kitepilot.com wrote:

> 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...    :)
> ET

>
>
>
>
> 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
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