October 10, 201411 yr Hi, I finally settled on this hardware for my 2nd Unraid box that will only be for back up of the data of my 1st Unraid server. Case : Lian-Li PC-V354 This case is small and is solid, all aluminum and matte black. There is no Drive Cage possibility, but it's a Backup box. I can fit 7 x 3.5in drives in it (+1 in the 5.25in space). PSU : Corsair RS450M Nice PSU and well priced, certified 80 Plus Gold. Hard Disks : Seagate STBD6000100 6TB x 3 I choosed 6TB drives because i'm packing 7 drives to backup my 20 drives (3TB) array, so I need more space density. Motherboard : Supermicro X9SCL+-F Nice server board with IPMI for managing it. CPU : Intel Core-i3 3240 (3.4Ghz) RAM: DDR3 2GB Low in RAM, but enough for what it will be doing I guess. ORIGINAL POST : I have quite a nice box to store all my stuff and it works really well. Currently, I'm doing a backup to Crashplan. I estimated that it will take almost 1 YEAR to do the first backup (around 11TB of data). I would like to have a local Backup too. I don't want something very powerful, (Atom or Avoton CPU would be good enough). My current array has 30TB total space, but use only 11TB right now. Currently, I have only 3TB drives. I would like to build a 2nd Unraid Box and solely run docker of Crashplan and Use it as a "local target" for Crashplan. Ideally, something that could have at least 8 disks would be good. I checked the U-NAS NSC-800 and it seems good, any suggestions on to What to put inside ??
October 10, 201411 yr I have found that crashplan is awesome for small amount of data, but it does not scale for backup or restore, even locally. I'd recommend you look into a replication scheme, which will allow your backup to be directly useable, instead of requiring a restore. There are a couple nice U-NAS builds already in this forum. ie http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=32704.0
October 11, 201411 yr Author What do you guys think about the BitTorrent Sync ? Will that work better for Local backup ?
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