FreeNAS is always a good OS for running a light NAS box. It manages all the
drives, but runs common linux ftp daemons, so it's pretty stable... we have
2 3TB machines that backup an entire windows domain and a couple of external
office machines every 2 days.
We have never had any problems with Fre
I've got a Linksys NSLU2 USB2 to Network box and it works fantastically.
It does prefer your disks to be in ext3 (so it can set permissions
properly I think!) and it's just a stripped down linux box with samba on
it and a web interface.
I've never had it fail on me (though I did have to upgrade
On Sat, 22 Sep 2007 18:36:43 +0100
David M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanks, that's very useful to know..
> ..although I'm going to have to find out what the current method of
> hacking /etc/fstab is these days since newfangled stuff introduced
> with edgy turned it to gibberish.. (Bah: it work
Tom Bamford wrote in gmane.linux.ubuntu.user.british
about: Re: External hard disks and backup strategies
> I've always found support for USB mass storage devices to be excellent
> in Ubuntu. I haven't come across a drive that isn't automatically
> recognised and mounted, no matter what files
Mark Harrison wrote in gmane.linux.ubuntu.user.british
about: Re: External hard disks and backup strategies
> So, relating to the home network, not the work one:
>
> - I have a home network with a few machines
> - All data gets stored on a server
> - I have an external USB hard disk
> - Once an
Hi Pete,
On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 11:11 +0100, Pete Stean wrote:
> About time someone dusted off the Ubuntu podcast if you ask me -
> there's definitely room for another linux podcast with a different
> feel to the existing batch
Interesting. I've often pondered an Ubuntu themed audio or video
podca
