[Discuss] Home server

[Joe at Polcari.com (Joe Polcari)]

FreeNAS is all of that and built for storage and file sharing with a web
interface.

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From: Discuss [mailto:discuss-bounces+joe=polcari.com at blu.org] On Behalf Of
Richard Pieri
Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2015 1:58 PM
To: discuss at blu.org
Subject: Re: [Discuss] Home server

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.

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Rich P.
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