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>We are looking at that as an option, but the machines in question don't have 
>USB 2.0 or firewire, and they're rack-mounted servers for our lab machines, 
>so getting a PCI card in there isn't easy or cheap either. 
>
>I found out that Ximeta makes "NetDisk" drives and they support RH Linux but 
>the support only mentions RH 9 and it looks like it's kind of a pain in the 
>neck. I'd really like something we can just plug into the network and go.
>
>Our backups can be done any time, so that's no big deal, there's just no 
>really convenient way to do this except over the network now that our tape 
>drive gave up the ghost...
>
>On Friday 09 September 2005 11:15 am, Geoffrey wrote:
>  
>
>>Costco has a 250G Maxtor (one touch II) external drive for about $200.
>>Firewire and usb 2.0, but not really a nas device.  Stick that puppy on
>>one of your boxes and back up to it.  I know that will tie up one
>>computer that it would be connected to during backups, but when do you
>>do them?  I backup around 3am...
>>    
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Fry's was selling a house brand 200 GB &quot;net-drive&quot; for a while.  It had 
an 8 port switch and supported samba and nfs.  These were going for 
around $250.  I imagine that they were running some sort of embedded 
linux. 

Benjie

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&quot;Time makes more converts than reason.&quot;

--Thomas Paine


James B. Godfrey
Systems Administrator
Layton Graphics, Inc.
Marietta, Georgia, USA
www.layton-graphics.com



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