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Imagine the possibilities.

I was looking around at my Chumby today when I had a weird idea. What if the Chumby could serve as a backup point? The Chumby has two USB ports. It is able to connect to a network. It could serve in one of two ways:

1. As a NAS, serving up two USB drives via NFS or SMB ala the Linksys NSLU2. It’s a pretty speedy processor that sits idle most of the time, as does its 802.11g connection. Sure the first backup would be painful, but after that, how hard could it hit the Chumby resource wise?
2. As a point to backup USB drives. Flipping the process around, it would serve as a great place to plug in my USB flash drive as the last thing I’d do when I went to sleep. If the Chumby could mount an NFS drive (from, say, my Mac Mini), it could easily upload everything to a shared folder.

Or you could combine the two.

I never really realized what all you could do with something like the Chumby – two USB ports and network access is terribly useful. I could use the ports for something other than charging my phone!