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- From: richard.pieri at gmail.com (Richard Pieri)
- Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2015 13:58:22 -0500
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On 1/25/2015 12:37 PM, Rohan Joshi wrote: > Is there any particular distribution that is better than Ubuntu for this > purpose. I have a pentium D, and 2 gb of memory to work with. TrueOS. It's a server-focused variant of PC-BSD which is a FreeBSD derivative intended to be easy to deploy, use and maintain. > Also, any other suggestions of how to go about this are welcome. TrueOS. ZFS with mirrored storage disks. SMB or rsync/Unison or whatever gets your data onto the server. "zfs send" to copy snapshots to removable media for longer-term archival storage. You could use CentOS with ZFS on Linux but you would be saddled with a lot of bloat that you don't want on a small server. -- Rich P.
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