Re: [BackupPC-users] Best NAS device to run BackupPC ?

[Les M. <les...@gm...>]

On 5/17/2011 12:11 PM, lmi...@mi... wrote:
> The interest of a NAS is that it provides a strong RAID system with a
> lightweight Linux system on top - and this at a reasonable price.
> If you want a good RAID system on a standard server/desktop it becomes
> really more expensive (as RAID systems are generally not in the default
> configuration).

Run linux software raid - which is probably what the low-end NAS boxes 
do anyway.  Raid1 or 10 have little overhead - just avoid raid5.

> The drawbacks of NAS is that the CPU is usually quite weak (not enough
> for BackupPC ?) - and also that they don't have a standard Linux
> distrib, so you may not be able to apply Debian packages or RPMs...

Plus you are stuck with whatever software they happen to run whether you 
like it or not.  One thing I'd recommend that will add some complexity 
on a PC though, is putting the system on its own disk (or raid set) with 
the backuppc archive on a separate set.  You don't absolutely have to do 
that but it will make life easier later when you want to separately 
update/change the OS, move to a different box, or swap in larger drives.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    les...@gm...