What would you recommend as a backup solution for computers on a home network? Right now, the only two I care about:
I was thinking either putting an old crappy computer on the LAN and using it just as a storage server or some NAS solution which can be fairly expensive. I don't want to back up to either the tablet or desktop in case something like a power supply blows and takes the drives with it.
My current situation is do nothing for the desktop (not enough space) and use Norton Ghost to do full backups to a share on my desktop where 40 GB is not that bad. I don't want to burn to DVDs or CDs because I don't want to go through hundreds of them each month (this would be a weekly backup, probably).
It would be groovy if a Windows 2003 Server solution existed where I could set up a crappy computer and use it for both this storage and my Outlook synchronizing solution.
- My tablet PC (40 GB)
- My desktop (374 GB, at the very most 274 GB I'd care about backing up, usually around 80 GB; 74 GB is in a potentially volitile RAID 0 setup where if one of the two drives fails, I'm screwed)
I was thinking either putting an old crappy computer on the LAN and using it just as a storage server or some NAS solution which can be fairly expensive. I don't want to back up to either the tablet or desktop in case something like a power supply blows and takes the drives with it.
My current situation is do nothing for the desktop (not enough space) and use Norton Ghost to do full backups to a share on my desktop where 40 GB is not that bad. I don't want to burn to DVDs or CDs because I don't want to go through hundreds of them each month (this would be a weekly backup, probably).
It would be groovy if a Windows 2003 Server solution existed where I could set up a crappy computer and use it for both this storage and my Outlook synchronizing solution.
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