[nylug-talk] External HDs for Remote Backup

[Thomas P Brisco]

    I got a "Coolmax CD-311" external enclosure, and put a 300G SATA drive
in there.  It stays reasonably cool, and got a lot of good reviews -- I've
been
running it pretty heavy for about a month now, with no problems (*).  The
enclosure has internal IDE/ATA and SATA handoffs, with e.SATA, USB
and Firewire external handoffs (I'm planning on recycling the drive to an
internal configuration in about a year).   As a plus, the Coolmax is
stackable,
and is only about $50.  I keep it in an area where it gets good circulation
(to
help mitigate heat shortening the lifespan any) - though, honestly, it
doesn't
look like heat is going to be a problem here.

    (*) If you're running firewire -- you'll *want* to turn on the synch_io
flag to the sbp2 module - otherwise you get some bizarre errors that look
like
disk failures.  It took about a week to troubleshoot (until I finally had
enough
wits to google the errors I was getting).  Originally I had planned to put
in a
e.SATA card later - but the performance with firewire has been decent enough
that I've not really bothered....

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Robbins" <robbins.paul at gmail.com>
To: "NYLUG Technical Discussion" <nylug-talk at nylug.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2006 12:43 PM
Subject: Re: [nylug-talk] External HDs for Remote Backup


I looked into some external hard drives, and one thing most of the reviews
noted was to be sure to get one with a built in fan.  I was going to persue
an external drive for my home system, but after reading about the lifespan
of some external drives (~2 years) I decided I would hold off.  For me, the
reason to have an external drive would be to have it last a long time in
case of a main system failure.  However, the reviews said that external
drives tend to over heat and burn out.  I don't know how accurate this is,
just what some reviews I read said.  Just a note, though, most of the ones
were lower end models for a home user, I am sure there are nicer models that
may not have this issue.

On 5/10/06, Michael Ruebner <mr at lunchinglads.net> wrote:
>
> Dear LUGgers,
>
> I've been running remote backups (rsync over IPSec VPN) on/from several
> Debian systems for a while, and I would like to switch from an internal
> HD to an external HD setup, facilitating on-site restores (at least
> that's the idea).
>
> I was thinking about a couple of external HDs connected to a dedicated
> backup server via firewire or USB. Since most of the data comes from
> Samba file servers slaving away for diverse Windows clients, fat32 or
> NTFS would be the file system of choice.
>
> Does anyone run a similar setup and would like to share thoughts,
> experience, caveats; or simply provide a sanity check?
>
> Any input greatly appreciated.
>
> Mike
>
>
>
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