Hi,I've setup a FreeNAS box recently, partly for the fun of doing a project but also to get a decent backup system in place.I managed to pick up an HP N40L in PB Tech's sale a few weeks ago, put 4x2TB drives in, and found FreeNAS surprisingly easy to get up and running with a ZFS RAIDZ2 pool (so hopefully can lose 2 drives before I lose data). The firmware's been flashed so I can do hotswaps of the drives (tested this before putting any data on it). Now it's acting as a TimeMachine target, as well as storage for my Mac Mini server and I've archived a bunch of stuff off my laptop. The only extra hardware I'm planning to drop in is an HP P410 card with FBWC in JBOD mode to reduce the possibility of write corruption.The next step is getting offsite backup going. To that end I'm currently ZFS replicating onto an external drive which I take into work, but I'm thinking about setting up a cheaper FreeNAS box somewhere else and replicating to that. With Snap VDSL I shouldn't hit bandwidth usage issues if I time the snapshot replication to run in the early hours of the morning, and in any case provided I do the first snapshot locally then the incremental snapshots shouldn't be too large.Has anyone else tried something similar?Lyndon
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