[ubuntu-uk] External hard disks and backup strategies

[Kris Douglas]

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 FreeNAS, and it works flawlessly with
the Ubuntu and Win workstations.

On 22/09/2007, Matthew Daubney <daubers at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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 the firmware
> so my housemates could plug a FAT32 disk into it).
>
> There's also lots of hacking of it gone on (search google for Unslung or
> NSLU2). I'm very tempted to get a second one for a second set of HD's I
> have kicking around awaiting USB boxes.....
>
> Can be a pain to set up a mount point for them though!
>
> -Matt Daubney
>
> Tom Bamford wrote:
> > We have a 500GB NAS hard drive in a cheap enclosure. You're right, they
> > use a stripped down Linux kernel with Samba, ftpd etc, with a web
> > interface for configuring it as you would a home router. I wouldn't
> > recommend one though, they give poor performance compared to USB2 and
> > you're at the mercy of the frankenstein daemons running on the box. The
> > ftp server on ours dies a horrible death when you try to push lots of
> > small files without giving it time to breathe. Ours will only use FAT32
> > filesystem on the drive as well, which is annoying to say the least.
> >
> >
> >
>
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