On Thu, 05 Aug, 2010 at 18:00:24 +1000, Andrew Rich wrote:
I really would like a proper NAS solution but am confused as to what selection criteria I need
I am pretty sure I want RAID 1 - mirror backup
yes
I am pretty sure I want ethernet not USB
yes
I don't understand what I need to have installed on an openSUSE box to talk to a NAS ?
Depends on the NAS ;)
There is windows node name type sharing ? Confused.
Me too... I can't parse that sentence :P
I really want it on my LINUX PC because I want to back up log files and sql tables.
I have a QNAP 219p and I'm pretty happy with it. It offers nfs, smb and iscsi as well as afp and ftp. It's a nice little box: quiet and low power consumption, has two diskbays which will take 2.5" or 3.5" disks. Disks default to being mirrored. The 'problem' with this (and I suspect similar products from other vendors) is that the filesystem is a proprietary/modified version of ext4, which is not readable from standard linux systems. This means that when a disk dies, I can switch it, and get the RAID rebuilt. When the next disk dies: replace and rebuild - but when the box itself dies, I'm potentially f*cked, because even though the disks may be intact I will have no easy way of reading what's on them. /jon -- YMMV -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org