On Tue, 2018-01-16 at 08:17 +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote: > Last year we bought an HP Proliant G8. It has a cool cubic form mactor with 4 > 3.5" SATA drive bays. And an internal SD slot. We've got 2 8TB WD Red drives in > it in RAID1, the OS on the SD card and /home on a 250GB SSD. That leaves 2 more > drive bays for expansion/transfer/migration some time. Nice, though probably overkill for me. > Regarding backup for the server, we have a pair of 2TB WD MyPassport USB 3.0 > bus powered drives. One stays ion all the time, getting nightly backups. The > other lives in a drawer, and we plug it in every so often to update its backup. > That gets us nightly backup resolution plus an offline isolated backup in case > of the OS getting comprimised, which could lead to the main backup being > comprimised. So you backup 8TB on a 2TB drive? I guess most media server files don't really need backing up as you can always get them again. I don't back them up myself. > My personal laptop is a Mac, backuped with TimeMachine to a WD MyPassport, > which also lives in a drawer for the same reason. > > Why RAID1 in the server? For rescue: either drive from a RIAD1 pair can just be > plugged into another machine and used standalone for recovery etc - just hand > mount things. RAID5 would use more drive slots (the G8 has 4) and be more > painful in a disaster. Yes, RAID1 saved me twice when those Seagates failed, luckily not both at once. Thanks for the input. I've now got the NFS+Samba combo working, after some head-banging until I figured out the SElinux parameters I needed to change (could this *be* more obscure? no meaningful error messages in the Samba log until I Googled them and a light dawned). poc _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
