On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 10:26:28AM -0800, Dino Vliet wrote: > I'm busy preparing my via c3 system to utilize it as a > backup file server. > > On the motherboard I have two IDE channels and > currenntly they have installed a IDE hard disk and a > dvd-rom. However, I have bought an extra IDE cable > where I will put two IDE hard disks in a master-slave > or cable select relation and put that on one of the > IDE banks. The other IDE bank I will use to put the > primary disk and the dvd-rom in a master-slave or > cable-select relation. > > Then I will install freebsd on the first disk and will > use the two spare IDE-disks on the same cable as a > geom-mirror.
Just be sure that your PSU can carry the additional load! You probably don't want to run all this off a small 100 Watt PSU. ;-) > I will use the system then as a central node with > rsync to do daily backups of my main data that is > scattered around on different desktops on my lan. > > Does anyone have tips regarding this kind o > installation? > > Do I also need a specialised tool like bacula for the > way I want to use it? > > Brgds > Dino Regards, -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
