On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 10:25 AM, Iznogoud <iznogoud at nobelware.com> wrote: > > > > I have this simple enclosure for home server use, in case it solves what > > you are looking for: > > https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E1681613 > 2037&cm_re=rosewill_hot_swap_cage-_-16-132-037-_-Product > > > > Thanks for pointing this out. I will seriously consider something like > this, > but it will most likely have to be a dedicated system with many more > drives. > I find it's a nice cage for in or out of case use. I have 4 drives for RAID, so good match. I am also interested to hear what people do on the software side, which I > think > is more important. I am a huge supported of software RAID and ZFS. I've been running Linux software RAID for many years and it's treated me very well for my primary home server. > And all of > this is great, but hardware will fail, and for that you need some kind of > backup (to tape, which is the best way we have found). > > It gets expensive very quickly. > For backups, also for many years I ran BackupPC based on Greg (on this list's) suggestion; nice product, worked well. I've reduced home servers and a few years ago I switched all home backup to cloud (CrashPlan). -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20170426/0dbf9ba1/attachment.html>