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I'm changing the way I do computing, to just having a single laptop that's carried between home and office, and that I plan to back up in both places, in addition to backing up other computers at home. I presently use an external HDD at work, and will likely continue to do so for a while, which is fine.
At home we have an accounting computer, my personal computer, and sometimes my laptop. We have an NAS unit (D-Link IIRC) that I've previously configured as a backup drive, but TBH it never seemed to work well and transfer rates were terrible (<<20Mbs) through 200Mbit powerline adapters. I'm wondering if there is a benefit to converting one of my linux boxes into a file server instead of using the NAS? As far as I can see a NAS unit is just a low-cost file server with limited interface & tools. An alternative question is whether it's simply a lot easier to configure a NAS unit than it is a linux fileserver.
At home we have an accounting computer, my personal computer, and sometimes my laptop. We have an NAS unit (D-Link IIRC) that I've previously configured as a backup drive, but TBH it never seemed to work well and transfer rates were terrible (<<20Mbs) through 200Mbit powerline adapters. I'm wondering if there is a benefit to converting one of my linux boxes into a file server instead of using the NAS? As far as I can see a NAS unit is just a low-cost file server with limited interface & tools. An alternative question is whether it's simply a lot easier to configure a NAS unit than it is a linux fileserver.