[rescue] Question about Iomega NAS Server

[Lionel Peterson]

> From: velociraptor <velociraptor at gmail.com>
> Date: 2004/09/14 Tue PM 05:34:37 GMT
> To: The Rescue List <rescue at sunhelp.org>
> Subject: Re: Re: [rescue] Question about Iomega NAS Server
> 
> On Tue, 14 Sep 2004 14:11:57 +0000, Lionel Peterson
> <lionel4287 at verizon.net> wrote:

> > I put two 250 Gig USB HDs on the box, and decided to serve them up as 
> >two seperate shares - I could have had a form of RAID, or even set up a 
> >back up schedule to copy one drive to another on a schedule.
> 
> Sounds pretty sweet at first glance--what're the options for backup?

>From Memory (the manual is available on line at their website):

Write all data to both drives

Backup one drive to the other drive on the NSLU2

Backup an NSLU2 drive to a remote share (on a PC, another NSLU2, etc.)

Back up a remote share onto an NSLU2 drive

The last three options can be placed on a schedule.

USB "dongles" can be used on one of the USB 2.0 ports (accessed as a network drive) as well...

The NSLU2 is linux-based, and goolge should point out sites describing how to telnet into the box,and drop of executables to allow for additional services (like NFS). For my use, my OS X and WinXP/95 laptops all access the SMB shares just fine. I don't plan on dropping NFS on my unit, but I was very happy to see that it could be done... I bet Linksys/Cisco will add this in the future, but I have heard nothing to support this...