Re: [BackupPC-users] OT: NAS GUI for native Linux (preferably RHEL)

2012-01-16 Thread Timothy J Massey
Tyler J. Wagner ty...@tolaris.com wrote on 01/12/2012 04:53:49 PM: So how about FreeNAS with BackupPC installed? http://harryd71.blogspot.com/search/label/backuppc Honest answer? My prejudice against non-Linux UNIX, especially with something as important as backup. I don't want to run

Re: [BackupPC-users] OT: NAS GUI for native Linux (preferably RHEL)

2012-01-16 Thread Steve Willoughby
On 16-Jan-12 14:31, Timothy J Massey wrote: Honest answer? My prejudice against non-Linux UNIX, especially with something as important as backup. I don't want to run into subtle issues Fair enough, as long as you admit it's prejudice on your part. There's a lot of history of Unix being proven

Re: [BackupPC-users] OT: NAS GUI for native Linux (preferably RHEL)

2012-01-16 Thread hansbkk
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 5:31 AM, Timothy J Massey tmas...@obscorp.comwrote: Tyler J. Wagner ty...@tolaris.com wrote on 01/12/2012 04:53:49 PM: So how about FreeNAS with BackupPC installed? http://harryd71.blogspot.com/search/label/backuppc Honest answer? My prejudice against non-Linux

Re: [BackupPC-users] OT: NAS GUI for native Linux (preferably RHEL)

2012-01-12 Thread Timothy J Massey
Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote on 01/10/2012 02:54:12 PM: Like I said, I'm looking for the general interface provided by every NAS I've ever seen. Of course, each of them is specific to their device. I'm hoping there's a version out there for generic Linux. Does anyone have

Re: [BackupPC-users] OT: NAS GUI for native Linux (preferably RHEL)

2012-01-12 Thread Timothy J Massey
hans...@gmail.com wrote on 01/10/2012 08:00:45 PM: I highly recommend OpenFiler. The code itself is open-source, but t's not very diligently supported by the community. However I was a total newbie to the world of Linux and have never needed any - it's been solid as a rock, and has every

Re: [BackupPC-users] OT: NAS GUI for native Linux (preferably RHEL)

2012-01-12 Thread Timothy J Massey
Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote on 01/10/2012 08:12:10 PM: On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 2:59 PM, Tyler J. Wagner ty...@tolaris.com wrote: So, my question: is there a NAS GUI out there that can be added on top of standard Linux (preferably RHEL, but very willing to consider others)

Re: [BackupPC-users] OT: NAS GUI for native Linux (preferably RHEL)

2012-01-12 Thread Timothy J Massey
hans...@gmail.com wrote on 01/10/2012 09:11:09 PM: On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 8:18 AM, Chris Parsons chris.pars...@petrosys.com.au wrote: Id highly recommend Nexenta. It is much more feature complete than Openfiler and linux. Futher to this, with my experiences, BackupPC performs much

Re: [BackupPC-users] OT: NAS GUI for native Linux (preferably RHEL)

2012-01-12 Thread Michel Jacobs
go with unraid. It has rsync capabilities , is free (with three disks) and works like a charm (version 4.7). Based on slackware. -- website: te paard naar sint Petersburg http://tepaardnaarsintpetersburg.nl mail: majac...@xs4all.nl mailto://majac...@xs4all.nl skype:

Re: [BackupPC-users] OT: NAS GUI for native Linux (preferably RHEL)

2012-01-12 Thread Timothy J Massey
Timothy J Massey tmas...@obscorp.com wrote on 01/12/2012 02:02:32 PM: Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote on 01/10/2012 02:54:12 PM: If your hardware can handle a small amount of overhead and you can manage it from a windows client, you might consider VMware ESXi (the free

Re: [BackupPC-users] OT: NAS GUI for native Linux (preferably RHEL)

2012-01-12 Thread Timothy J Massey
Michel Jacobs majac...@xs4all.nl wrote on 01/12/2012 02:29:32 PM: go with unraid. It has rsync capabilities , is free (with three disks) and works like a charm (version 4.7). Based on slackware. It is an interesting solution. One big problem: I *need* striped arrays. I will be dealing

Re: [BackupPC-users] OT: NAS GUI for native Linux (preferably RHEL)

2012-01-12 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 1:24 PM, Timothy J Massey tmas...@obscorp.comwrote: Timothy J Massey tmas...@obscorp.com wrote on 01/12/2012 02:02:32 PM: Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote on 01/10/2012 02:54:12 PM: If your hardware can handle a small amount of overhead and you can

Re: [BackupPC-users] OT: NAS GUI for native Linux (preferably RHEL)

2012-01-12 Thread Michel Jacobs
well, i suppose you looked it up, but me thinks this solution would be perfect: you have the capacity of two disks of whatever size is available right now in ONE system. Do you have files that are larger than 1,5 terabytes?? If that's the case you certainly need striped.. -- website: te

Re: [BackupPC-users] OT: NAS GUI for native Linux (preferably RHEL)

2012-01-12 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On 2012-01-12 19:11, Timothy J Massey wrote: Exactly. Webmin is little more than webified configuration files. You use Firefox instead of ssh, but the process is nearly identical. Fair enough. For now, Webmin is what I'm using, on top of CentOS 6.2. But if you've ever used a NAS, you know

[BackupPC-users] OT: NAS GUI for native Linux (preferably RHEL)

2012-01-10 Thread Timothy J Massey
Hello! I'm in the middle of building a Super Backup server. It will do the following: Run BackupPC for file-level backups Provide NFS share(s) for VMware snapshots Provide CIFS share(s) for Windows snapshots and Clonezilla Contains a removable SATA tray Manage all of this from a GUI I am

Re: [BackupPC-users] OT: NAS GUI for native Linux (preferably RHEL)

2012-01-10 Thread Les Mikesell
On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 12:43 PM, Timothy J Massey tmas...@obscorp.comwrote: Hello! I'm in the middle of building a Super Backup server. It will do the following: Run BackupPC for file-level backups Provide NFS share(s) for VMware snapshots Provide CIFS share(s) for Windows snapshots and

Re: [BackupPC-users] OT: NAS GUI for native Linux (preferably RHEL)

2012-01-10 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On 2012-01-10 18:43, Timothy J Massey wrote: So, my question: is there a NAS GUI out there that can be added on top of standard Linux (preferably RHEL, but very willing to consider others) that will add most of these functions? For example, something like the GUI for an Iomega NAS would be

Re: [BackupPC-users] OT: NAS GUI for native Linux (preferably RHEL)

2012-01-10 Thread hansbkk
I highly recommend OpenFiler. The code itself is open-source, but t's not very diligently supported by the community. However I was a total newbie to the world of Linux and have never needed any - it's been solid as a rock, and has every possible NAS feature readily available from web-driven GUI,

Re: [BackupPC-users] OT: NAS GUI for native Linux (preferably RHEL)

2012-01-10 Thread Les Mikesell
On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 2:59 PM, Tyler J. Wagner ty...@tolaris.com wrote: So, my question:  is there a NAS GUI out there that can be added on top of standard Linux (preferably RHEL, but very willing to consider others) that will add most of these functions?  For example, something like the GUI

Re: [BackupPC-users] OT: NAS GUI for native Linux (preferably RHEL)

2012-01-10 Thread Chris Parsons
Id highly recommend Nexenta. It is much more feature complete than Openfiler and linux. Futher to this, with my experiences, BackupPC performs much better on Nexenta than it does on linux. On 11/01/2012 5:13 AM, Timothy J Massey wrote: Hello! I'm

Re: [BackupPC-users] OT: NAS GUI for native Linux (preferably RHEL)

2012-01-10 Thread hansbkk
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 8:18 AM, Chris Parsons chris.pars...@petrosys.com.au wrote: Id highly recommend Nexenta. It is much more feature complete than Openfiler and linux. Futher to this, with my experiences, BackupPC performs much better on Nexenta than it does on linux. I'm sure it's