After a long Kurobox Hiatus
I've largley neglected the Kurobox since it's been up and running. I had even just shut it off for a while. And it's not from lack of interest, it's from lack of real time. So today, as I wait to go over to my sister in law's for dinner, I've decided to at least get my files backed up. It has been a long time since I've done a thorough back-up, and I'm taking all my stuff, and moving copies to Kuro and burning an extra copy to disk so that my inner-geek is satisfied.
10BaseT is terribly slow. It's painfully slow. And I'm one of those wireless Airport users, so get what amounts to 11BaseT (in theory). That's not fast either. 100BaseT, on the other hand, it a more acceptable speed, so I've got a 50' Cat5 cable running from where I am sitting in the dining room over to Kuro's home in the old office. If only I'd gone for the expensive Kuro with Gigabit Ethernet... sigh. No big deal though, I don't forsee me having to often back up this much information.
The plan is to back-up twice, and then to clear a lot of local HD space, then set up some services on that box. At least mtdaapdadoodle for iTunes. I know that I should probably mess with Kuro's software first, then back up, but the reality of it is that I have to back-up my data before something bad happens. And with two back-ups, I can afford to break the kurobox while installing new software onto it.
Backing up is the morning's number one goal. Crap. It's 11:30. I better get moving.
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- Kurobox
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- 2005-03-27
Comments:
Ditto that
I should be backing up more than I do. I need to figure out the best way to make a FireWire drive available over AFP before I do. But like you I can't say that I've made a lot of headway in the effort department.
100BT Ethernet should be fine for normal backups - but over B wireless backups can be harsh. I've got everything here for a smoking network except for the B wireless... I could probably schmooze the SonicWALL guy to give me a TZW (G wireless router and hardware firewall device) and that would leave a WatchGuard SOHO 6 Wireless unused for a lucky recipient but I'm not big on schmoozing. Even though it would mean a smokin' new router.
Back onto backups - I'm wondering if NFS might not be the better choice for mounting the drive to back up to. AFP is so pokey and NFS can be mounted as if its a folder in the home directory. A little added convenience to keep from having to go to a different drive or to the /Volumes folder to access data.
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