[ale] Home" Brew" Carbonite

[scott]

Make you own.  I do NAS (nfs ans cifs) for a living.  Take a multiproc  
machine or a multicore one with 2gig of ram and your favorite server  
distro.  I prefer ubuntu but centos or debian or any of the bsds.

Use nfs over tcp.  Yes the tcp protocol has more over head than udp  
but is much more stable.  And most home network gear will drop packets  
every now and then.  Which is horrible for nas over udp.

When posible use nfs over cifs.  Cifs is very chatty which can hurt  
performance.

If possible use a seperate network for nas only.  That way you isolate  
anything from interfering with nas and vice versa...

At an upcoming ale meeting I am going to be talking about this...

Sent from my mobile...

On Oct 29, 2009, at 11:16, Greg Clifton <gccfof5 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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