[ale] Home" Brew" Carbonite

[Greg Clifton]

The prime function would be for remote backup of the plethora of computers
in the household, but not necessarily in the house. The audio & video bit is
sort of a "might as well" while I'm building. Thinking along the lines of a
Myth storage server or DLNA type server and maybe eventually to house the
collection of DVDs. I don't have a HDTV yet, but it seems that most/many of
the new ones are coming with Ethernet connectivity, not to mention that a
PS3 can play some streamed video. Most computers these days have at least
1GigE port and with the cost of 8 port GigE switches at well under $100, it
seems to me that some form of IPTV is the future of home distribution.

The main question remains, how should I go about configuring such a system?

On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 10:28 AM, Jeff Hubbs <jhubbslist at att.net> wrote:

> Buffalo Terastation, etc. are crap.  Lame hardware aside, not being able
> to shell in and manipulate stuff is extremely limiting, and not being
> able to control the versions and types of protocols used (and therefore
> the quality thereof) is frustrating.  Last year, I got a guy at LaCie on
> the phone and he basically told me that they don't pay a lot of
> attention bug-fix-wise to their NFS implementation since so few people
> use it.
>
> I've been using a K7/850 with 2x300GB drives in RAID1 at home for a long
> time, but now that I'm expecting to do some videotape ripping I've
> decided to move that function to an AMDx2 machine with a pair of 1TB
> drives and a capture card...why push video files around the house LAN if
> I don't have to?
>
> Greg Clifton wrote:
> > Springboarding off the Pair of Twins Post, I have been thinking of
> > building a home brew storage server for several functions including
> > media storage and [automated?] backup over the internet of my family's
> > computers. Carbonite @ $50/yr might not be so bad but x8 or more
> > systems, surely I could build adequate if not superior functionality
> > for less than 2 yrs of service. Currently have two kids running Macs
> > the rest are running some flavor of Windows, XP, Vista/7 plus I run a
> > Ubuntu box as my home system.
> >
> > I noticed a recertified HP home server box on Newegg for  ~$320 with
> > 2x500GB drives (2 open bays, 4 total), Sempron1.8 processor and 512Meg
> > RAM and windblows home server. They sold out of the single hard drive
> > version for $259 or I probably would have already bought it. So the
> > question is, would it be 'more better' to take such a box and slam in
> > a couple of 1.5TB drives or the like and load some Linux distro with
> > necessary tools to be able to dump audio + video and [automated]
> > backups of all the family computers vs using something like a Buffalo
> > Terastation? Or does anybody have a better idea?
> >
> > Assuming the first option is viable, the next question is how to
> > configure such a box software-wise, I can handle the hardware, but
> > wouldn't know where to start with the software.
> >
> > Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
> > Greg Clifton
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