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[Spawne32]

I tried installing linux the other day and completely screwed up my system, im not even sure what happened but all i know is i lost half my information because i didnt have an extra drive to save images on for backups. What i need to know is, what would be the best setup to hook into my home network for backups, some sort of external harddrive or a network hard drive or whatnot, and how would i go about hooking that kinda stuff up?

[Order]

Those Linksys and Kingston NAS devices seem to be good.

[Shaz]

Build one and install a server OS to it. Connect it to your network and just add it to your workgroup.

[Spawne32]

Build one and install a server OS to it. Connect it to your network and just add it to your workgroup.

how much we talkin here price wise?

[perkam]

Installing a certain linux for the first time?

A. Use one that uses a LiveCD
B. have a How to printed for drive partioning

Perkam

[nibble]

Yeah a NAS box would work well or if you have spare computer components lying around build a file server, just buy some high capacity disks. But IMO just disks in an eSATA/USB enclosure would work almost as well. Also just out of curiousity what distro were you installing?

[Spawne32]

lol perkam, i followed the instructions, i dont know what happened, im gona keep linux off my main rig for just that reason tho, i dont need any more screw ups on this rig LOL ill use it on my other rig :x

[Yakyb]

i just built a filestore for £350 consisting of a an x2 3800 ee 690g mobo a couple of 400Gig HDDS and an old 80GIG for the system threw in some cheap geil 6400. its now running ubuntu feisty and samba as well as an internal ftp for networking hope this helps