On Thursday 16 April 2015 13:56:23 David Christensen wrote: > On 04/16/2015 07:23 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: [...]> > You have outlined a lot of complexity, and implied that it is all > going into one machine that you are trying to keep operational while > you work on it. That sounds difficult and risky. > > > I have been building x86 computers for my SOHO network for many years.
I did also, until I discovered the atom based box for <$300 which are great for a one stop solution for the machinery controls. So this phenom box was my last real build, 8 years (nominally) ago. > I have found that it is useful to have several computers running and > divide the functionality across them. This makes operations and > maintenance easier and more reliable: This is a good outline, but I am out of room in this packrats lair. > 1. One firewall/ router running a purpose-build Linux distribution: > > http://www.ipcop.org/ Switch it for a router running dd.wrt. > 2. One laptop with a small system drive (boot, swap, and root > partitions; Wheezy). I could probably bring in the lappy from the shop, it has mint 14 on it at the moment. Bring it in and get an email agent working so I am not exactly 100% locked out of help on the net. Some house cleaning is in order to make room for it. Which I should probably get to already... > 3. One file and version control server with a small system drive (as > above), plus a large HDD (one data partition). You then maintain your own local mirrors of the repos you need? > > 4. One backup server/ workbench machine with a small system drive (as > above) and various hard drive mobile dock bays and I/O ports, plus > several large HDD's (one backup partition each). > Using amanda here, which has the bare metal recovery covered. > > If you must fit everything into one machine (firewall, desktop, bulk > data, backups), I would suggest removing all your drives (except > optical), installing a small system drive, installing and configuring > the OS, configuring the firewall, adding a 2 TB drive for bulk data, > restoring your data, setting up user accounts, adding a 2 TB drive for > backups, and importing your backups. Small drive is relative, it will be a 1T Seagate thats about a year old. This time I envision that 1T as a boot drive, the 2T as /home & /opt, and temporarily another 1T for amanda. That drive is at about 65% of capacity now & also has the shop machines included in its disklist. But that drive now has >50,000 hours on it, so will likely be replaced by the 2nd 2T I just bought, in due time of course. Anything wrong? > David Thanks David. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/201504161419.41648.ghesk...@wdtv.com