[ale] Prebuilt or assemble an off-site backup NAS box?

[cfowler at outpostsentinel.com (Chris Fowler)]

BTW,

This is what I use for backup

http://www.ctera.com/home/

Supports rsync over ssh, WebDAV, SMB, etc, etc.  Low price.  I could not
have designed something any cheaper myself.  If something messes up I'll
deal with them.

On Fri, 2011-05-06 at 10:58 -0400, Raj Wurttemberg wrote:
> I am looking to provide an off-site disaster recovery storage server for one
> of my clients. The box will be headless and run some flavor of Linux. They
> are currently running a Netgear ReadyNAS NVX which I have "tweaked" to allow
> SSH access (rsync works too). 
> 
> I priced out a new NAS from QNAP and it came out to about $1,100. I really
> like the QNAP box, but as little as it will be used I think I could build a
> small box and throw in some inexpensive SATA drives and get more bang for
> the buck.
> 
> Thoughts? Comments?
> 
> Kind regards,
> Raj Wurttemberg
> rajaw at c64.us
> 
> 
> 
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