On 04/07/2012 09:45, Tim wrote:
On 03/07/12 20:45, Graeme Gemmill wrote:
I have just found this LUG, so this is an introductory message. I
have used Mandrake/Mandriva for several years, and read and
occasionally contribute to the alt.os.linux.mandriva news group.
Living in Litton Cheney, I intend to attend the next meeting held in
Dorchester to meet other Linux users. This may be a bit early to be
asking for advice/recommendations, but I am interested in
implementing a Linux-based NAS to provide additional data security on
my home network accessible from Mandriva and Windows OSs.
Regards
Graeme
Hi Graema, Welcome to Dlug
A lot will depend on the type of NAS you are after, I have a single
Disk NAS from Lacie which has a linux based OS but is aimed really at
the windows market. I have not tried or even know if it is possible to
hack the OS. I can mount it on my linux box and it works and have
mounted it on windows boxes so other in the family can access it. I
normally back this up on a monthly basis via rsync, it was backed up
more regularly at one stage but the data is not added to, changed or
deleted that frequently at the moment so there no need for more
regular backups.
If you are looking at a multi disk nas, then you could try building
one to suit, I looked at doing similar a while ago and kept this link
as the basis of how I would go about it
http://matthewlai.ca/blog/?p=968 I have no idea if it is any good in
real life
Hope it helps
Tim
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Hi. I'm a new member myself.
Linksys, Buffalo & DNS all sell good, reasonably priced Linux
comapatible NAS devices.
It all comes down to how much you need to store, whether you want to
mirror 2 or 4 or 8 drives what yuo know about RAID & how much you can
afford.
Don't consider DROBO.....nice but slow & is a type of X-RAID so a
proprietary format & even tho they say LINUX compatible, I know they are
not LINUX friendly.
BTW all, being a sys admin and having worked with a number of large
scale RAID detups - EMC & Netapps etc & Sun DiskSuite, if anyone is
interested, I'll post a RAID fyi.
Phil.
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