Soldato
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Right, as a little summer project i'd like to consolidate all my silly USB/FW800 drives into a low power, high reliability backup server.
It will be used for the following:
1. Time Machine backup from Mac Pro & MacBook Pro.
2. Video streaming.
It essentially should be able to do what the Drobo does, except quicker and cheaper.
1. Add a new HD it dynamically sorts it out so I don't have to fiddle with it.
2. Automatic rebuild of the array if a disk fails and I bug another one in (Perhaps two disk failure redundancy?)
3. The array of disks must show on the network as one continuous disk, if it doesn't then it's not what I want. This is a requirement for time machine to work (It needs enough space to backup everything in the mac to one place, this will eventually be many TB.)
If I have 6TB of data I need a continuous 6TB to backup to, even if it's 3x2TB, etc.
4. The ability to privatise different folders. For example I want the iTunes folder to be accessible throughout the network, but the time machine to just be available with a login.)
5. Wake-on-Lan & low power - Turns itself off at night, turns itself back on when I turn any of the computers on. My router supports WOL as does my airport extreme which will act as the gigabit hub.
Been reading up on UnRAID but not entirely convinced it will do what I want.
What do you gurus of solutions think?
Cheers
It will be used for the following:
1. Time Machine backup from Mac Pro & MacBook Pro.
2. Video streaming.
It essentially should be able to do what the Drobo does, except quicker and cheaper.
1. Add a new HD it dynamically sorts it out so I don't have to fiddle with it.
2. Automatic rebuild of the array if a disk fails and I bug another one in (Perhaps two disk failure redundancy?)
3. The array of disks must show on the network as one continuous disk, if it doesn't then it's not what I want. This is a requirement for time machine to work (It needs enough space to backup everything in the mac to one place, this will eventually be many TB.)
If I have 6TB of data I need a continuous 6TB to backup to, even if it's 3x2TB, etc.
4. The ability to privatise different folders. For example I want the iTunes folder to be accessible throughout the network, but the time machine to just be available with a login.)
5. Wake-on-Lan & low power - Turns itself off at night, turns itself back on when I turn any of the computers on. My router supports WOL as does my airport extreme which will act as the gigabit hub.
Been reading up on UnRAID but not entirely convinced it will do what I want.
What do you gurus of solutions think?
Cheers
