[SATLUG] Backup Recommendations

[Travis H.]

> The concept is great and the price is great but after further reading
> and Googling I am changing my rating of the Buffalo TeraStation,
> LinkStation and KuroBox offerings for SMB shops from "take a look -
> might be of interest" to "ignore - not ready for prime time".
> Based on the emails I have read in this exchange, I would recommend
> the traditional NFS server approach for your shop for now.

Yeah I bought 3 of the new SATA 3Gbps 500GB 16MB 7200 rpm drives from
Hitachi, and a new Silicon Image SATA 3Gbps controller, and I'm going
to do RAID 5 in software... I hope that will be okay as it is a SMP
box.  Total cost?  About $1200.

NFS was designed before firewalls were invented, but SMB has no such
excuse, and it requires bilateral TCP connections from multiple
ports... total ignorance.  As for CIFS...
Hobbit wrote "Common Insecurities Fail Scrutiny" many years ago.

SMB is so hopeless that nobody with any sense allows it across a
firewall... and with laptops or untrusted folk inside the perimeter,
the "perimeter" is everywhere.

I've been playing with shfs lately, that's pretty cool as you only
need the ssh port open on the file server... and you probably already
have ssh installed for maintenance purposes.  So basically it's
network file system at no security cost.  May be slow though.
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