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From: Andy Harsley <a...@harsley.net>
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Subject: Raspberry Pi project
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Since I live of a flash drive these days, I'm looking for an auto-backup 
device. Basically something cheap and standalone that I pop the drive into 
when I get home and it dumps a copy whilst I put the kettle on - then 
ideally it switches itself off.

I'm thinking that a RasPi with a big SD card would be an ideal solution. A 
model 'B' would allow me to network in if I lost my drive (or it died on 
me, which has happened twice), but otherwise it would just sit there 
running off a PP3.

So:

a) does anyone know if such a thing already exists?
b) would anyone be interested in having a go at programming a Pi to do the 
job?

(If Pi ran M$ windows I could do it myself, but sadly I never found the 
time to get into Linux.)

I'm sure I'm not the only one who would find such a thing useful.

andy


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Since I live of a flash drive these days, I'm looking for an auto-backup device. Basically something cheap and standalone that I pop the drive into when I get home and it dumps a copy whilst I put the kettle on - then ideally it switches itself off.<br><br>I'm thinking that a RasPi with a big SD card would be an ideal solution. A model 'B' would allow me to network in if I lost my drive (or it died on me, which has happened twice), but otherwise it would just sit there running off a PP3.<br><br>So:<br><br>a) does anyone know if such a thing already exists?<br>b) would anyone be interested in having a go at programming a Pi to do the job?<br><br>(If Pi ran M$ windows I could do it myself, but sadly I never found the time to get into Linux.)<br><br>I'm sure I'm not the only one who would find such a thing useful.<br><br>andy<br><br>
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