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Kidge

Kidge

Kidge

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Hi Guys,

After having some trouble with Windows Update on Server 2012 Essentials I've decided to give up and start from fresh with a different OS.

Preferably looking for something which is free and happy to spend a little time getting it set up.

What I'm looking for is something that will do the following:

- Store all my data (music/pics/movies)
- Share these to multiple clients (Plex & Windows/Samba shares)
- Automatically back up the data to an external HDD maybe once a week
- Automatically (or easily) updates it's own server OS

Would something like Ubunto Server be good to try?
 
Have a look at NAS4Free. I'm not sure about automatic backup but syncthing is probably the tool for the job.
unRAID is not free but is $59 for the basic version.
 
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unRAID is good and worth the money (from someone who has paid). On my main home server I run Ubuntu server, thats also a decent OS if you can get round the CLI
 
Unraid...

Ive been using it past 6weeks. Plex docker is Flawless, rock solid.

Also have some VMs and other dockers setup.

I can't recommend it enough, I was swayed into looking at it from other members here. I'm very glad I did, the Unraid forum is also amazing.
 
i use nas4free (originally called FreeNAS until someone else "stole" the name)

its pretty easy to setup and has been rock solid in terms of stability for me.
I do have a few quirks with windows machines not being able to see the CIFS shares sometimes, but a reboot of the windows machine resolves that, it is something that I want to tackle but don't have enough knowledge of the freeBSD world to sort. :)
 
How easy is it to move from xpenology to unraid?

I'm assuming you can't just swap the disks from one system to the other.
 
I'm in the same boat as the OP and am unsure which route to go down. However, I have been looking at Amahi - any reason that has not been recommended?
 
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