Sorry, didn't realize in your earlier post you were asking for this as well.
I'm not seeing XFS or NTFS...
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A) Offline backup. Turn your server off, boot some backup software, run the backup, reboot, done. It won't be able to serve files while it's backing up.
Instead I'd suggest booting a gentoo minimal liveCD. The amd64 disk is probably better if your system can boot 64-bit at all (whether your server's OS is 64-bit isn't relevant for an offline backup, just your CPU).
This will take roughly four to eight hours, I think. In the end you'll have a raw, bare-metal backup; Windows won't be able to use it, but Linux can, and if your server's hard drive dies, you could crack the drive out of your Buffalo's case and expect it to boot normally inside your server. (Assuming, of course, it has the proper connectors.)
There might even be ways to keep the /home partition on it fresh once you make it since your Linux server will still be able to talk to this disk.
B) Online backup. It won't back up the whole server, just your company's datafiles. You may be able to do this with minimal interruption to the server's clients, but, files in use may not be backed up properly.
It seems option B might be easier but (from what I can gather) has the following limitation: it only copies the datafiles, not the entire hard drive. So, with the first option, if the server hard drive fails, I could conceivably turn the external hard drive into the new server hard drive (assuming, as you say, the connections match). With the second option, if the server hard drive fails, I would need to purchase a new server hard drive, program it accordingly, and upload/unpack the .tar file onto the new hard drive. Is this correct? Do you have any preferences/suggestions for what you would do?
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