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Are there any feeling for using a Mac "mini" as a backup server?


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I currently have a bank of G4/533s as my backup servers.

 

I was looking to update them (primarily to hope that catalog compression will be faster) and was considering a bank of "minis" to replace them.

 

Anybody from Dantz have an official thought on using a "mini" as a backup server?

 

Thanks!

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How many Macs do you have? Sounds like you have a lot.

 

I see no reason why not, if you're a small company with only a few Macs. Unfortunately the one main down side to the Mac Mini is that they only have 80gig hard disk in them as standard, and are not upgradable.

 

Why not go for network storage device/server instead, eg. Xserve, they usually have massive storage capacity (terrabytes), more than enough for most people. And may save you money in the long term - one of them being: don't have to upgrade them regularly.

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