cjewell
05-23-2004, 06:49 PM
Hi,
I know this has been discussed in this forum before, but no real recommendations were made.
My situation is this: I have a small home network comprised of a Linux router/server with 4 workstations (4 running WinXP and 1 running Linux). The users of each of the machines has a filestore on the server which also hosts printing, ftp, mailhosting, and VPN. The Linux box also has an ADSL internet connection and runs a stateful firewall.
For my own needs, I need a backup solution that would cope with backing up the server root partition (for quick reinstall in the event of a crash)(1GB), the server home partition with everybody's documents on it (2GB), my own Linux box with a 20GB home partition (plus the WinXP installation that I have as a dual boot).
I was managing quite well just backing up my own documents onto CDRW until the size of my home directory became too big for 1 CD (even bzipped). So I'm considering buying a tape drive to expand on this, but had wondered about a DVDRW. The solution must be fairly reasonably priced (eg <£250).
Which option would be most sensible? My workstation is currently a 2.4GHz P4/256MB RAM/IDE controller only - this is the machine I would like to do the backups from as it is more convenient to get to than the router/server.
Any help gratefully received!
Chris J
I know this has been discussed in this forum before, but no real recommendations were made.
My situation is this: I have a small home network comprised of a Linux router/server with 4 workstations (4 running WinXP and 1 running Linux). The users of each of the machines has a filestore on the server which also hosts printing, ftp, mailhosting, and VPN. The Linux box also has an ADSL internet connection and runs a stateful firewall.
For my own needs, I need a backup solution that would cope with backing up the server root partition (for quick reinstall in the event of a crash)(1GB), the server home partition with everybody's documents on it (2GB), my own Linux box with a 20GB home partition (plus the WinXP installation that I have as a dual boot).
I was managing quite well just backing up my own documents onto CDRW until the size of my home directory became too big for 1 CD (even bzipped). So I'm considering buying a tape drive to expand on this, but had wondered about a DVDRW. The solution must be fairly reasonably priced (eg <£250).
Which option would be most sensible? My workstation is currently a 2.4GHz P4/256MB RAM/IDE controller only - this is the machine I would like to do the backups from as it is more convenient to get to than the router/server.
Any help gratefully received!
Chris J