Backup storage device

[StanLin]

I want to set up a file server. I need to know which backup storage devices are available in the $100-$200 price range and that can be set up by a real dummy.

I have been using Sony StorStation for my Windows workgroup but it can't restore Linux files. Yes, it can backup but can't restore. Probably something to do with file permissions.

[Shad]

For a good tape driove it will be a lot more than $200.

You could go for a zipdrive, but the most economical solution is a cdrw drive. The drives can be had for less than $100, though faster ones will be more. A CDR goes for less than a dollar each, by far the cheapest cost per meg solution available. A CDRW is only a little more and will ast at least 1000 rewrites. Combine it with tar and bzip plus about 700mb free to write an iso it is possible to backup over a gig of data per CD. It would take a little bit of work but it would be possible to write cron scripts to backup a given directory each night and write it to CD. Everything you would need should already be there, mkisofs, tar, bzip (or gzip though it does not give as good as compression), cdrecord.

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[StanLin]

I just bought the Acer 8432IA CDRW. Can anyone tell me how to set it up in as few commands as possible, under Red Hat 7.

[Shad]

I would first try loading a cdrecording package, the best one I have found is the venerable xcdroast.

Click on the setup button and see if it found your CDRW drive, if it did then you are all set. If it didn't, then check out http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/software/xcdroast.html
or http://linuxdocs.org/HOWTOs/CDROM-HOWTO.html or http://linuxdocs.org/HOWTOs/CD-Writing-HOWTO.html

Good Luck.

PS You might also try loading the SCSI-emulation module, though I am not sure what name is.

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