similar to: OT: Replacing Venerable NAS

We're using Synology boxes with good results so far. They're built on Linux with ssh access and good support for things like rsync. They have options to backup to remote servers including Amazon too. On Wed, Nov 18, 2015, Tim Evans wrote: > I have an original-label Infrant (now NetGear) ReadyNAS storage > appliance that's been running for 8+ years. Except for replacing its

Tim Evans wrote: > I have an original-label Infrant (now NetGear) ReadyNAS storage > appliance that's been running for 8+ years. Except for replacing its > power supply, it has not skipped a beat in all this time. > > I use it primarily as a backup device (via NFS) for a couple of Linux > machines, (via SMB) for a couple of Windows PC's, and (via ftp) for web > sites

On 11/18/2015 11:50 AM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > What size storage are you looking at, and what's your budget? Are we > talking a 4TB drive, or 33TB, or...? Sorry, should've mentioned this is for home/home office. The ReadyNAS is a four-bay unit, with 500GB disks. Will want a four-bay, probably with 1- or 2-TB disks. -- Tim Evans | 5 Chestnut Court UNIX System Admin

--On Wednesday, November 18, 2015 10:31:36 AM -0500 Tim Evans <tkevans at tkevans.com> wrote: > Would like to hear recommendations here. Besides the ReadyNAS, I have > worked with a Thecus NAS (don't recall model). What are the features I > should look at? For reasons that others have already touched on, I like FreeNAS, as long as you're using the base system. I have

If you use any NAS (or a SAN) devices, what do you use? And I'm referring more to larger scale network storage than your home PC or home theater system. We've had very good experiences with our NetGear ReadyNAS devices but I'm in the market for something new. The NetGear's aren't the cheapest ones around but they do what it says on the box. My only real gripe with them is the

If you use any NAS (or a SAN) devices, what do you use? And I''m referring more to larger scale network storage than your home PC or home theater system. We''ve had very good experiences with our NetGear ReadyNAS devices but I''m in the market for something new. The NetGear''s aren''t the cheapest ones around but they do what it says on the box. My only

If you use any NAS (or a SAN) devices, what do you use? And I''m referring more to larger scale network storage than your home PC or home theater system. We''ve had very good experiences with our NetGear ReadyNAS devices but I''m in the market for something new. The NetGear''s aren''t the cheapest ones around but they do what it says on the box. My only

On Nov 18, 2015, at 11:04 AM, Gordon Messmer <gordon.messmer at gmail.com> wrote: > > On 11/18/2015 07:31 AM, Tim Evans wrote: >> Would like to hear recommendations here. > > https://www.ixsystems.com/freenas-mini/ For those who don?t know why you?d pay $1000 for a diskless 4-bay NAS box when there are $300-500 boxes that are superficially similar from QNAP, Synology,

I'm trying to create a 500GB lv volume on a 500GB physical volume, but can't: [root at francois-pc ~]# pvscan PV /dev/sdd VG freenas lvm2 [500.00 GB / 500.00 GB free] PV /dev/sdc VG thecus lvm2 [1010.00 GB / 910.00 GB free] PV /dev/mapper/ddf1_RAIDp2 VG VolGroup00 lvm2 [931.25 GB / 0 free] Total: 3 [2.38 TB] / in use: 3 [2.38 TB]

I ran into a problem that I couldn't resolve straight away, but would like to solve for sometime in the future. We have a Thecus storage server (similar to a Buffalo TeraByte, if that helps?) that has a Mac filesystem on it. The mother board was failing, but the drives are still OK. A new box has been added, so the urgency is sort of gone. I was going to try and back up the data to a new

On Nov 18, 2015, at 12:16 PM, Chris Adams <linux at cmadams.net> wrote: > > Once upon a time, Warren Young <wyml at etr-usa.com> said: >> - They?re serious server-grade machines, not borderline flimsy boxes competing largely on price. Built in and supported from Silicon Valley, not China. :) > > iXsystems sells rebadged SuperMicro stuff, nothing special (not made

Hi, I'm looking at using Linux as a NAS / SAN device, and would like some input from other's who have done this before? How would it compare to commercial SAN devices, Thecus N8800SAS (http://www.thecus.com/products_over.php?cid=11&pid=177&set_language=english) or something similar to these? I would probably use hardware RAID 10, and could go with either SAS / SATA, and then

Apologies for the blank message (if it came through). I have heard here and there that there might be in development a plan to make it such that a raid-z can grow its "raid-z''ness" to accommodate a new disk added to it. Example: I have 4Disks in a raid-z[12] configuration. I am uncomfortably low on space, and would like to add a 5th disk. The idea is to pop in disk 5 and have

On Nov 18, 2015, at 1:01 PM, John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com> wrote: > > On 11/18/2015 11:55 AM, Warren Young wrote: >> It?s rather annoying to buy a NAS, then later realize you need to buy*another* NAS as a mirror in case the first one roaches itself. Isn?t that what redundant storage is supposed to avoid? > > > no, RAID is purely availability when faced with

Looking for a command-line way to extract only the Subject lines from my mailbox on my ISP's IMAP server, without actually downloading/modifying the contents of the mailbox. Sort of the remote equivalent of locally doing: $ grep ^Subject /var/spool/mail/mymailbox > subjectlistfile Thanks. -- Tim Evans | 5 Chestnut Court UNIX System Admin Consulting | Owings Mills, MD 21117

I've followed the instructions in the README at http://us4.samba.org/samba/ftp/Binary_Packages/AIX/ for building 3.0.21x on AIX 5.2 ('oslevel -r' reports '5200-07'). The last version I was able to build on the system was 3.0.14a. 3.0.21c's configure completes with no errors, but the make immediately bombs with: # make Using FLAGS = -O -D_SAMBA_BUILD_ -I./popt

Hey, The recent discussion on NAS/SAN and the Thecus N8800 got me to thinking. Bit of background. I have an old Dual Athlon MP2800+ that I'm using for a home web/file server. It runs fine but between the noise of the various fans and it's location in the living room, I've been asked by my spouse to find a replacement for it that's smaller & quieter. Looking at the Thecus, and

On 11/18/2015 07:31 AM, Tim Evans wrote: > Would like to hear recommendations here. https://www.ixsystems.com/freenas-mini/

I've been using the SeaMonkey built-in HTML editor from the epel repo for CentOS 6.7: $ repoquery -i seamonkey Name : seamonkey Version : 2.39 Release : 1.el6 Architecture: x86_64 Size : 127340745 Packager : Fedora Project Group : Applications/Internet URL : http://www.seamonkey-project.org Repository : epel Summary : Web browser, e-mail, news,

On 11/18/2015 04:42 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > the /really/ hard one when rolling your own highly redundant systems > with high data integrity needed for things like transactional database > servers, is implementing redundant storage controllers with shared > writeback cache... you pretty much have to get into EMC class > hardware for this level of reliability with data