Hey everyone,
I've never done this before, but my friend wanted me to look into creating a server that would backup their data every night. They don't have a lot of it, it's no more than 100gb, but they want redundant automated storage. I'm think it'd be prudent to have it keep several weeks worth of copies, made every night. Do any of you have experience with a small scale setup like this? Is this possible with just a home built computer with a decent RAID setup?
To give you some more specifics, my budget would be =<$1000. For future proofing it I'd want to make sure they have ~300gb they could backup. It needs to be automated. It needs to have nightly copies. It only needs to backup 7 days worth of copies. There is already a server that stores the 100gb of data. So it'd be easier to just pull the data via the network during the middle of the night (they run normal 9-6 business hours).