>> I'm struggling to come up with a plan for making backups that is both >> effective and economical. I have 4 Gentoo systems: >> >> 1. strong local desktop >> 2. weak local desktop >> 3. laptop >> 4. hosted remote server >> >> I'd like to backup the important system and data files from each of >> these systems, plus my entire (growing) music collection which is >> stored on system #1. I'd like these backups to be safe in case of >> fire, theft, hard drive crash, etc. The system and data files are not >> a problem to encrypt, archive, store, and rsync across systems #1 and >> #4 because their size is relatively small. However, my music >> collection is big and growing and I'd like to have 1TB available for >> it. I'm not sure how to handle that. > > [...] >> >> I could set up NAS storage at a friend's place. We both have >> Suddenlink cable connections so the throughput should be alright. I >> don't like running a non-Gentoo system though, even if it is just NAS. >> Plus he uses a Netgear router which needs to be reset periodically. > > The router is a problem, but one which can be solved by buying a replacement > (which should be cheap compared with the costs for a NAS or a 1TB disk. > > Concerning the NAS, why don't you build one yourself? It's no more than 4 > HDDs, a cheap system and an NFS- or Samba- and SSH-server, really.
I think that's what I'll do. Thanks a lot for your input. - Grant
