[GRLUG] The perfect home file server

[David Pembrook]

On 10/30/2011 2:23 PM, Richard Nienhuis wrote:
> If you wanted to get really fancy you could use glusterfs and run a 
> cifs client for your win 7 machine to access.  And NFS client for any 
> linux machines.
>
> Good luck with getting more HDs.  Prices have doubled since the thai 
> floods.

I've got plenty of storage for now. I was joking about getting more (to 
later return) to use just for migration. Once your talking about moving 
data measured in TB, it takes time and building drive arrays requires 
empty drives.

>
> On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 1:04 PM, David Pembrook <dpembrook66 at yahoo.com 
> <mailto:dpembrook66 at yahoo.com>> wrote:
>
>     I'd really like to get the "perfect" file server setup going at
>     home. I'm currently using Samba on a Debian machine.
>
>     Its in a mixed environment of Linux and Windows machines, several
>     family users and some of my daughter's friends also use the
>     system. I have over 7tb storage to work with. Some of it needs to
>     be mirrored or otherwise protected against data lost. Some of the
>     data, mainly movies can be at risk as it consumes so much space
>     and are replaceable. The real fly in the ointment is file indexing
>     in Windows 7. I want to be able to find things fast regardless of
>     desktop OS. Another problem would be migrating data as I'm using
>     about 50% of my capacity. Buying a few large external hard drives
>     from best buy and returning after use wouldn't be nice lol
>
>     I've looked at ZFS as mentioned a while back on here and that
>     looks real interesting. FreeNAS looks like an interesting way to
>     go but I keep coming back to file indexing.
>
>     Built on Linux or BSD is the only real requirement.  Forgetting
>     about migration for now, any thoughts? I know one person's idea of
>     perfect is far from perfect to the next though.
>
>     Thanks,
>     Dave
>
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