[TriLUG] FreeNAS vs DIY

[Roy Vestal]

A quick follow up:

I have used cwRsync before to backup Windows systems as well as mysql 
databases. I don't have those projects anymore so they are archived. It 
worked pretty well.

  http://www.rsync.net/resources/howto/windows_rsync.html

-Roy

On 9/16/13 8:33 AM, Roy Vestal wrote:
> I use CentOS with LVM across multiple drives. It is an older 
> Intel2Core Duo, 6GB of RAM and I run the following services:
>
> Samba, NFS, ssh on ports different than the defaults. I have an older 
> Cisco/Linksys NAS that I use as a mirror.
> Bacula
> KVM (dev servers for various projects)
> squid/dansguardian for proxy and web filter.
> rsync for database backups
>
> At one point I used this machine for bind, but now I use a different 
> machine for VPN and bind.
>
> I looked at FreeNAS, but went with CentOS as I'm more of a RHEL guy.
>
> HTH,
> -Roy
>
>
> On 9/15/13 9:58 AM, Igor Partola wrote:
>> TriLUG,
>>
>> I am about to start converting an old desktop (2006 or so AMD Athlon 
>> X2, 4GB RAM) into a home server. It will need to serve the following 
>> functions:
>>
>> - A file storage server. It will get two 2TB drives for a RAID array 
>> to store important files like family photos and documents.
>> - A NAS. It will need to seamlessly share files with Windows, Linux, 
>> and Mac OS X boxes.
>> - A backup server for my remote machines. As in, it should be able to 
>> run rsnapshot to ssh to my remote machines, do database dumps, etc.
>> - A VPN server. I think I will use OpenVPN for this.
>> - A bind9 server for the LAN.
>> - Run a couple of more custom daemons such as the eyefiserver (which 
>> can grab pictures from the Eye Fi SD Wi-Fi cards). Also a Flickr 
>> uploading script.
>>
>> My first question is whether FreeNAS can handle all these daemons 
>> without having to resort to compiling code specifically for it and 
>> hacking around where it will let you install things?
>>
>> My second question is: if FreeNAS is not the way to go (I will likely 
>> set up an Ubuntu machine then), what filesystem/RAID setup should I 
>> use to provide strong guarantees about data integrity? I want to 
>> ensure that there is as little bitrot as possible, that backups are 
>> easy, and that it is fairly fast.
>>
>> What do y'all recommend?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Igor
>>
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