Mark's World » backup http://www.digitalspace.ca GNU Not just another ranting blog Thu, 14 Jan 2010 05:35:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 Raid 5 /w Synology CS-407 http://www.digitalspace.ca/2008/04/01/raid-5-w-synology-cs-407 http://www.digitalspace.ca/2008/04/01/raid-5-w-synology-cs-407#comments Wed, 02 Apr 2008 05:39:18 +0000 Mark Lise http://www.digitalspace.ca/2008/04/01/raid-5-w-synology-cs-407 I’ve been meaning to setup a backup server for quite some time now, however it was hard to get around to actually doing it. Until I met the Synology cs-407. It’s sold as an appliance that has a number of great features: Web interface for configuration, IP Camera integration, iTunes network share, webserver [...]]]> I’ve been meaning to setup a backup server for quite some time now, however it was hard to get around to actually doing it. Until I met the Synology cs-407Synology CS-407. It’s sold as an appliance that has a number of great features: Web interface for configuration, IP Camera integration, iTunes network share, webserver /w php and mysql, and even an embedded bit torrent client.

I packed it full with four 500GB SATA II drives, and with Raid 5 that gives me just under 1.5TB of redundant storage. I can lose up to 1 drive at which point the system will automatically email me if somethings wrong – it will run in degraded mode. I can then power it down, shove a new drive in and power it back up and it will rebuild. I also have a 250GB external drive connected to it via USB to auto-backup the stuff on the raid partition that is especially critical. The reason I do this is because you never know what might happen! Raid 5 is NOT and should not be thought as the end-all solution to data backup.

I’ve got about 500GB spread across a few machines and disks that I’ve been loading onto the storage server, but boy does it take a long time. I’m not running a gigabit network yet so that’s part of the problem. I’m currently at about 141GB copied after HOURS of copying.

The server runs a variant of Debian, so I’m happy to be running linux on this little thing. I can tweak as I need, one of the beauties of open source :)

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