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[Chris Johnson <chris [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear All

Following an OS (NT4) partition crash I'm looking at having data available on a
separate server so that if the same happens again users can still access their
data.  This will also allow me to shift the main server over to Gnu/Linux
during office hours as the users will still be able to access their files from
the backup server.

The backup server is currently running suse 9.1

I want the new solution to allow me to store off site approx 60GB data as well
so my plan was to have 2 removable 80GB drives that are swapped daily/weekly so
that there is always a pretty recent copy of the data off site.  I've used
drive caddies before but these have the disadvantage that the PC has to be
powered down to swap drives (not a big issue I don't think) but I think that
they are faster than external drive cases that use firewire or USB. The machine
that will be used as the backup server has only usb1, not 2 and not firewire
although I don't think it costs that much to add it (does it?) and there is
then the flexibility of installing the drive on other machines without the
caddy bay.

What would people on the list recommend?  Drive caddies (an suggestions as to
where I can get them?) or USB/Firewire external housings (do these need power
to them as well as the usb cable? and any recommendations here would be
appreciated too).

Whatever solution I was going to use I was going to set it up to use rsync or
similar (not looked into this yet) to copy across only the updated files.  Can
this be done (using rsync) to pull files to Linux from NT or does it need a
client on the "server" side too?  Any suggestions as to a better solution are
welcome.

As for formatting the partition to hold the data is it still true that only fat
/fat 32 is accessible for read and write from GnuLinux and Windows?  I'm not
going to sacrifice the security of the data by putting it on fat if I can be
more sure it will be better off on reiser or similar.

Thanks

-- 
Chris Johnson
(Not that one the other one)

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