[XCSSA] Tips for DIY NAS?

[X-otic Computer Systems of San Antonio]

Quoting "X-otic Computer Systems of San Antonio" <xcssa at xcssa.org>:

> Hmm...that's definitely an option. Looks like you can drop a version
> of Debian on the Linkstation, although I'll need to do a bit more
> research. I need to be able to do rsync (which seems easy enough) but
> I also was thinking about using JungleDisk to backup my data to it (in
> case of multi drive failure, fire, unattended JungleDisk backups,
> etc.). They seem to have a generic Linux client but I haven't played
> around with it too much (just been using the OS X client so far).
> You're right, though, the Linkstation looks better, and is much
> smaller, than any NAS I could build myself. Plus, I'd get more drive
> space...
>

Regarding backup software. BackupPC is pretty good. Easy to use and  
set up. You can make it client heavy (rsync), or bandwidth heavy (pure  
smb for windows, or tar for linux).

I tend to be biased towards not doing the embedded solutions since I  
often want to do more than those little CPUs can handle. Although,  
with a NAS (the idea going round in my head was an ATAoE system) I  
wouldn't need very much, just ssh to talk to it, and that's about it.  
Nifty graphs and such would be nice :) I/O graphs, and possibly some  
sort of nrpe to allow nagios to keep an eye on the health of my disks.

</idle thoughts>

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