<div dir="ltr">On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 12:34 AM, Paul Nijjar <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:paul_nijjar@yahoo.ca" target="_blank">paul_nijjar@yahoo.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">
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I may be interested in putting together a NAS box, and I am not sure<br>
what is good these days. FreeNAS? OpenFiler? Something else?<br>
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The use case is to set up a backup server -- other servers will send<br>
their backups to this machine. For that reason I do not really want<br>
the redundancy of ZFS or btrfs. I think I want a bunch of drives<br>
(maybe even the hated WD Green drives, which we currently possess)<br>
that act as a bunch of disks, shared via NFS, SAMBA and iSCSI<br>
block devices. It is this last feature that makes me think of using<br>
one of these NAS distributions as opposed to a simple Debian box.<br>
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Suggestions? Corrections? Horror stories?</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Are the clients to this backup server UNIX-ish only, or a mix of UNIX-ish and Windows and OS/X?<br><br></div><div>Will this box be mainly write only (to save the backup to), or will it be serving the backup stuff to same or other machines?<br>
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