Hi there, i am looking for some software that can be setup to backup my main machine and laptop via a wireless network the server can be found below http://forums.bit-tech.net/showthread.php?t=154359 it shall get a wireless card soon, but unsure on which one yet. also it would be nice to have access to the operation of the machine via my laptop and main rig, i think this is called VNC, but i dont know anything about this. the machine will be linked to my HI-FI Amp so i can use it as a jupebox, and soon it will be linked to a 32in LCD TV so it can handle freeview broadcasts and HD playback. another question, if you looked at the other thread you will be aware that i plan on having 4TB's of space spread out over 4 drives, what is the best way to do this via RAID, i have never played around with RAID. can someone tell me what the respective options will give me (0,1,5 and i believe JBOD?)
you would be better off with 4TB's over 5 disks using Raid 5, that way if 1 drive fails you can replace it and not lose any data
Based on 4 x 1TB drives Raid 0 = 4TB with striping, but no protection, so data is written to all 4 drives increasing performance, but if one drive fails u lose the data on all the drives Raid 1 = Im not sure if u can have more than 2 drives in raid 1, so u might have to do 2 x raid 1, which would give you 2TB total space but each array would be fully backed up. Raid 5 = 3TB with striping and you can lose 1 drive without losing all data, total capacity = number of drives - 1, so * x 1TB drives would give you 7TB
I think i will consider using RAID 5, i do like the idea of securing my data in the event of failure. if i run out of storage space i can always increase it! haha!
If the data you want to backup is really important you might want to consider RAID 6, which is basically the same as RAID 5 but the array can loose two disks before failure. Obviously this leads to increased parity information size, so the total space is number of drives -2. However only some more expensive RAID controllers support RAID 6.
i dont want to get too carried away with this. The SATA controller used in this system will be the onboard controller upon the motherboard. RAID 5 will be great. i may try to add a 5th 1TB drive so i have 4TB's of storage. On another question any ideas on the software i can use for backing up certain foldered on to this server.
