Arch Linux Backup Server, part 2

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Oct 29, 2010 7:01 PM EDT
LinuxPlanet; By Carla Schroder
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Earlier this week I reviewed the Antec 300 case that houses my new home fileserver. Now it's time to talk about what's inside. It's rather minimalistic right now, running headless and using a single 2-terabyte SATA hard drive. There are three desktop PCs and one laptop that will backup to this machine. I don't need a big RAID (Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks) array, though one of these days I'll move up to a RAID 1 array, using Linux software RAID. Nice simple mirroring with no parity or striping complications. This doesn't need to be complicated because all I want are plain, easily-recoverable copies of the data on all of my home computers.

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