Network Attached Storage

[armb]

My Landisk has failed. A multimeter showed no output from the power supply - trying a different power supply, its web server interface worked, but showed no disk present. I haven't tried taking the disk out and trying it in a PC, but I'm not optimistic.
It's not a disaster, because everything on it was only a copy of stuff elsewhere - but now some of the stuff has no other copies.
I'd been thinking about getting a better NAS anyway, one that I can install other software on beyond the builtin FTP/SMB server, possibly a Netgear ReadyNAS Duo (and yes, I realise that RAID isn't a replacement for proper backups).
Any suggestions/recommendations?

Comments

[keristor.livejournal.com]

Mine is a Core2Duo PC with 8GB RAM and 5 500GB SATA drives in RAID5 configuration. Backed up to an AMD64 server with a couple of terabyte drives (non-RAID) every night, and to a third lower-spec machine, using rsync over ssh. The Core2 and AMD64 machines are running Ubuntu 9.04, the other one is running an old version of Gentoo. Oh, and the lot occasionally backed up to a USB2 hard drive, and all of the essential stuff tarred and gzipped and uploaded (when it changes) to my web host in San Jose California (and the really essential stuff also mirrored on my server in New Zealand -- I haven't yet been able to get any more "off-site", not until the Lunar City servers become available).

[grey-lady.livejournal.com]

You have a better data protection scheme than most major organisations. :)

[keristor.livejournal.com]

*g* Although I don't do incremental or versioned backups, except for the things under Subversion everything is a straight copy. Replication, rather than backup, I can't usually say "oops, I shouldn't have deleted that, I'll restore it from last week's archive".