Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2005 18:16:08 -0500 From: Nikolas Britton <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> To: Nick Barnes <Nick.Barnes@pobox.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: better disk reliability on a desktop machine Message-ID: <ef10de9a050717161678705d16@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <38171.1121430073@thrush.ravenbrook.com> References: <38171.1121430073@thrush.ravenbrook.com>
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On 7/15/05, Nick Barnes <Nick.Barnes@pobox.com> wrote:
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> 2. taking backups offsite. Seems to me that the best route is a
> number of external firewire hard disks. This machine doesn't have
> motherboard firewire, so I'll need to get a PCI firewire board.
* Computer (in a headless setup) that's PCI 2.2 compliant:
* FreeBSD 5.x:
* Rsync.
* Cron.
* SSH
* VPN Tunnel (optional).
* Big hard drive(s).
* 802.11g (see the "ath" manpage) PCI NIC.
Here's the parts you need, $260 for everything listed above:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=3DN82E16811153035
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=3DN82E16822144422
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=3DN82E16813185036
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=3DN82E16820141169
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=3DN82E16819104159
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=3DN82E16833322201
If you can't figure out what to do with these parts, well......
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