[SATLUG] Establishing a new network - Basic Question

[Borries Demeler]

Great suggestions, I concur with your approach. I like the idea
of doing cross-backups with friends. If you do the rsync often
enough the duration of net traffic can be kept to a short time
for each backup, including using the --no-whole-file switch.

I should mentioned that you can get excellent prices from 
www.pricewatch.com. 120gb EIDE's start at $66. If you run
RAID-5 on both the server and the backup system you really
got quadruple safeguard against drive failure, since RAID-5
allows you to lose one drive on either array and still be
able to recover the data.

-Borries