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looking to get a nas but I can't find one feature

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etrin

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This is just for a home so I am not looking at the + $1000 units but I wanted to find one with disaster recovery. Something like Ghost or true image built in for system backups.
I had heard that this was available and it might be only available on the super high end systems.
I am not sure and can't find anything like this on the lower priced units I have seen.
Does anyone know if this is really available on any units?
 
Why not simply buy a nice quality NAS device and whatever imaging app. that you like?
You can get all that at a very reasonable cost.
 
I wanted to do an image of all the computers on my home network. After talking to Acronis (who said I would need 4 copies for my 4 computers) I said BS to that.
I could buy a nas for what they wanted me to pay.
 
Just as a side note - I have acronis TI WS 9.1 and have it installed on 3 different systems (2 desktop, 1 laptop) and yes I know I'm breaking their requirements BUT it is working. I did see some strange error message during the 2nd/3rd install but the thing has worked and I have done a restore on the desktops with no issue. I may invest in more licenses when the new version comes out and update to it. What about MS Home Server? That supposedly will do what you want scheduled and all. I was thinking of getting it and installing on an older XP3000 3Gb mem system for that purpose. I also have the DNS-323 NAS box but atm I can see it from my PS3 but can't get to my mp3's on it (that's all that's on it). I hear there's something else that works better when it's wireless setup. I may wire connect it and see if that makes any difference. I just wasn't wanting to run another cable into the living room via around doorway...
 
thanks darkendsoul...in reality there is no reason to install the software at all...except for them to keep track of how many copies they sell. It would be nice to install it on one machine and do network images of all your systems but again by their rep that would require the network version and it is $499 OVERALL I rate them about a 8 on the moneygrabometer
I believe I am going to find out about the freeware software and hope it can do network backup/restore

I am still trying to find out about the nas with this built in along with what software they are using.
 
Heya,

I would suggest you just build your own NAS from an old computer (or with modern parts) and then use opensource software like Amanda (link: http://amanda.zmanda.com/ ). You can build a really awesome NAS for less than $250 (not including drives) that is gigabit ready if you needed. Otherwise, hit up Craigslist or Ebay and look for old celeron computers for $10 that someone doesn't want anymore. You just slap a gigabit NIC in there and it's ready to be a NAS for you. If it doesn't support SATA, there are controller cards for $20 that are PCI and have 4 and up SATA ports. You can very inexpensively turn old machines into a modern drive using NAS. And free software like FreeNAS to run it, and free software like Amanda to backup to it over your network.

Very best,
 
If you need to accomplish a task and know of software that does exactly what you want...
Why not just buy another copy?

Acronis True Image is NOT expensive. :roll:
I don't understand screwing around trying to find a "free" version.


 
Originally posted by: etrin
I wanted to do an image of all the computers on my home network.
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Windows Home Server ($100 for the software) does that beautifully and automatically for up to ten PCs on your network. It does full images and you can easily restore the whole PC or just a single file from many backups that are updated daily and stored for months by default.

WHS uses a unique imaging system that only keeps a single copy of files that are on every PC (like Windows or MS Office), so the backups are a LOT smaller than you'd expect. It backs up XP, Vista, Server 2003, Server 2008, and Windows 7, both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of each. (I've pretty much tested them all.)

You can install it on any PC with 512MB of RAM and a 1 GHz or faster processor. Pretty much any old PC made in the past six years will work great. The old PC needs a DVD drive for the WHS install. After that, it doesn't need a keyboard, mouse, DVD drive, nor a monitor.
 
Originally posted by: RebateMonger
Originally posted by: etrin
I wanted to do an image of all the computers on my home network.
Click to expand...
Windows Home Server ($100 for the software) does that beautifully and automatically for up to ten PCs on your network. It does full images and you can easily restore the whole PC or just a single file, from many backups that are updated daily and stored for months by default.

WHS uses a unique imaging system that only keeps a single copy of files that are on every PC (like Windows or MS Office), so the backups are a LOT smaller than you'd expect. It backs up XP, Vista, Server 2003, Server 2008, and Windows 7, both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of each. (I've pretty much tested them all.)

You can install it on any PC with 512MB of RAM and a 1 GHz or faster processor. Pretty much any old PC made in the past six years will work great. The old PC needs a DVD drive for the WHS install. After that, it doesn't need a keyboard, mouse, DVD drive, nor a monitor.
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I've been debating about that. Since you're running it how does it fair for serving out video and/or mp3's? I'd be close to willing to go this route and maybe sell off the NAS box itself and move the 500GB sata's to the WHS box, but I'd have to move the files to an external USB initially while I break apart the drives and reformat them in WHS software raid probably then copy them back to it.

To prior poster, I know ATI isn't that expensive (to me at the least). It's serving it's purpose but as noted above I'm kind of interested in seeing what WHS can do for audio/video serving on the net. Then I have to figure out where the hell I'm going to put this 3rd desktop box, probably living room near the HDTV I have and run a cat5 to it so I get 1Gb bandwidth from my DIR-655 DLink router.
 
Originally posted by: RebateMonger
Originally posted by: etrin
I wanted to do an image of all the computers on my home network.
Click to expand...
Windows Home Server ($100 for the software) does that beautifully and automatically for up to ten PCs on your network. It does full images and you can easily restore the whole PC or just a single file, from many backups that are updated daily and stored for months by default.

WHS uses a unique imaging system that only keeps a single copy of files that are on every PC (like Windows or MS Office), so the backups are a LOT smaller than you'd expect. It backs up XP, Vista, Server 2003, Server 2008, and Windows 7, both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of each. (I've pretty much tested them all.)

You can install it on any PC with 512MB of RAM and a 1 GHz or faster processor. Pretty much any old PC made in the past six years will work great. The old PC needs a DVD drive for the WHS install. After that, it doesn't need a keyboard, mouse, DVD drive, nor a monitor.
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Hmm.. somehow this one escaped me, so thanks for the post. I have a friend that this should work for quite well! 🙂

 
Originally posted by: darkenedsoul
Since you're running it how does it fair for serving out video and/or mp3's?
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I have some MP3s and videos stored on my WHS at home (maybe 200 GB worth), but all I do is play them across the network (100Mbps) on my various PCs. And I host a few MP3 files on a built-in web site on WHS. Those both work fine. I believe there are other media-server functions available, but I know nothing about them.
 
Originally posted by: RebateMonger
Originally posted by: darkenedsoul
Since you're running it how does it fair for serving out video and/or mp3's?
Click to expand...
I have some MP3s and videos stored on my WHS at home (maybe 200 GB worth), but all I do is play them across the network (100Mbps) on my various PCs. And I host a few MP3 files on a built-in web site on WHS. Those both work fine. I believe there are other media-server functions available, but I know nothing about them.
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Ok, I'll do some more reading on it. It'd be awesome if I could see it from a PS3 (the media files). Do you know if this is possible?

 
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