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Re: Linux file/backup server with Mac clients

__/ [ Sandman ] on Sunday 17 December 2006 15:25 \__

> In article <2970621.CAymWK0azJ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
>  Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> __/ [ Sandman ] on Sunday 17 December 2006 13:50 \__
>> 
>> > Anyone got any experience with this? A headless Linux machine with
>> > 4x500GB disks in RAID1+0 that runs a SFTP/FTP server for (legal) file
>> > sharing and provides network backup to mainly Mac clients, preferably
>> > through Appletalk (netatalk) for maximum transparency.
>> > 
>> > Gigabit network. Any idea what distro I should use - I'm a Debian guy,
>> > but maybe there's something better for this purpose?
>> 
>> My initial thought was that Debianadmin, among other Web sites, will have
>> extensive HOWTO's for exactly that. The choice of FTP might be worth
>> replacing with SSH (scp, rsync, fish://) although sftp will make use of it
>> and probably facilitate hyper-threading too (important over slow/shared
>> connections).
> 
> Well, the connection isn't slow. The AppleTalk file transfer protocol
> is a bit slow in itself, though.
> 
>> Are you creating separate users accounts on the backup server/s? One issue
>> that we have with the local SAN is user permissions and groups. To make
>> matters worse, Windows XP has a very shallow understanding of
>> understanding and permissions from what I could gather. Darwin/BSD should
>> probably be fine. Are these computers all yours are do they belong to
>> separate people? What about quotas? Ubuntu has an intuitive-to-set-up
>> feature that will allow you to mount the file server and treat it in a
>> drag-and-drop fashion without much effort.
> 
> These are all my computers, so I don't really need any user privilege
> layer.

If you haven't bought a storage unit (or set up RAID) yet, then maybe a bunch
of 500GB external hard-drives would do...? Just plug-and-play with a USB
port... handled as a standard mass-storage device... here in the UK it isn't
too expensive... about the same price of a complete Linux PC (roughly
GBP130).

You can also take it in a bag in case you travel. The terabyte units seem to
be more expensive than smaller units combined. The latter gives you
independence and redundancy. You can even place them in isolated and distant
places, in case of a fire (or other disasters). That is actually one of the
advantages of working in a Web-based-fashion these days. You don't even need
to rely on third parties (privacy factor). You could just put some FOSS
packages on your domain and the only intrusive party is then your host...
more trustworthy than large companies which collaborate with the DoJ
(Microsoft, AOL) and the Chinese government (Yahoo)...

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