We have those little HP macro severs with windows storage server. Cracking little NAS device bit limited to 2tb drives.

It's certainly grown. 58 servers and 21 pc's.

 

I thought you were into VM's - why the need for 58 servers ?  Or are you clustering the 58, then slicing and dicing the pool ?  Otherwise 58 sounds like a real admin headache.

reckon space required would be miniscule.

 

not sure if its worth resurecting my old PC, its years old and in bits. But maybe worth aquiring one just for back-ups.

 

Would an external hard drive not surfice??

if the problem comes via the mains you could fry all your hard drives

I thought you were into VM's - why the need for 58 servers ? Or are you clustering the 58, then slicing and dicing the pool ? Otherwise 58 sounds like a real admin headache.

Yes, 58 virtual machines on 3 hosts and 4 NAS servers.

Yes, 58 virtual machines on 3 hosts and 4 NAS servers.

 

Makes more sense. Bet some don't do much though!  I now run on Sun servers for development with pretty much everything else deployed via automated subversion build to the cloud. I don't touch Windows apart from within a few VM's on my nice big 27" iMac. Have just bought a new 24TB QNAP rackmount NAS as a better local backup solution. Runs incremental rsync via rsnapshot.  Can't beat the price and reliability of rsync

what do you think of affa?

I've not used it personally, but it looks like another rsync wrapper script. I was using my own wrapper from a previous Sun box, but just implemented a simple rsnapshot schedule on the QNAP.  If it's rsync based, it'll probably be pretty decent.

yeah it is rsync based

if the problem comes via the mains you could fry all your hard drives

Have you ever had that?

 

I was thinking more from viruses ect...

yes, virus etc is down to your local users. If you use an attached hd disconnect it completly after backup. I lost a whole server with an attached usb backup drive. lost the lot even with a ups. But if its gonna happen it will happen to me.