[Discuss] Home server

[jabr at blu.org (John Abreau)]

Are you looking for a server that only does backups, a file server that
also does backups, or a server that does several things including backups?

For a plain backup server, I've heard good things about BackupPC. If I were
to try this, I'd install it on a dedicated CentOS or FreeBSD server with a
lot of disk space, and run nothing but BackupPC on it.

For a server that's to act as just a fileserver, and not have a lot of
extras bogging it down, I've been happy with FreeNAS, which is a customized
FreeBSD configured as a NAS appliance. I'd configure FreeNAS to use ZFS in
RAID1 mode, and I'd use rsync for scheduled backups of my photos and
documents. I'd also setup snapshots on the FreeNAS server to maintain daily
and monthly archives of the backups. I currently use rsnapshot for this,
but I intend to figure out how to do the equivalent with ZFS snapshots.

For a general-purpose server that will run other services in addition to
backups and file service, I concur with what others have already suggested.



On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 12:37 PM, Rohan Joshi <rohan2jos at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I was thinking of making a home server that will backup my photos and
> documents, preferably one that is scheduled.
>
> 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.
> Also, any other suggestions of how to go about this are welcome.
>
> Thanks,
> Rohan
>
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