File Server and Raid

[Richard Brown]

Hi Everyone

On 15/11/06, Paul Schmidt <pschmidt at lazytechs.com> wrote:
> Johan Ramm-Ericson wrote:
> This worked quite well for me, and was the most straight forward answer
> I found for setting up a raid for linux.
>
Having now read the published links I now understand that I might be
talking and looking at the wrong answer.

The file server I was talking about is not that important to need
raid. I think for me what is more important is the ability to backup.
I am now thinking that what would be better would be a separate
machine that would be a backup system.

I have two boxes available to me at the moment. An Athlon 64 and a
Pentium 4. What I intend to do is run the Athlon as a file server at
the moment and run the Pentium as a backup. I also have a Mac that
would need to access the file server.

If I was to do the above what would I need to do please? I presume
setting up the Athlon box is quite simply following the instructions
on the Ubuntu site. The backup system would need to be always
available to the file server to back-up on.

What do folks think and is there a good resource for reading more
about backup servers please? Do I need to use the alternative disk or
server disk for either of these?

Many thanks.
-- 
Rich
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