On Tue, 2018-01-16 at 08:17 +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote:
Last year we bought an HP Proliant G8. It has a cool cubic form
mactor with 4
3.5" SATA drive bays. And an internal SD slot. We've got 2 8TB WD Red drives in
it in RAID1, the OS on the SD card and /home on a 250GB SSD. That leaves 2 more
drive bays for expansion/transfer/migration some time.
Nice, though probably overkill for me.
Regarding backup for the server, we have a pair of 2TB WD MyPassport
USB 3.0
bus powered drives. One stays ion all the time, getting nightly backups. The
other lives in a drawer, and we plug it in every so often to update its backup.
That gets us nightly backup resolution plus an offline isolated backup in case
of the OS getting comprimised, which could lead to the main backup being
comprimised.
So you backup 8TB on a 2TB drive? I guess most media server files don't
really need backing up as you can always get them again. I don't back
them up myself.
My personal laptop is a Mac, backuped with TimeMachine to a WD
MyPassport,
which also lives in a drawer for the same reason.
Why RAID1 in the server? For rescue: either drive from a RIAD1 pair can just be
plugged into another machine and used standalone for recovery etc - just hand
mount things. RAID5 would use more drive slots (the G8 has 4) and be more
painful in a disaster.
Yes, RAID1 saved me twice when those Seagates failed, luckily not both
at once.
Thanks for the input. I've now got the NFS+Samba combo working, after
some head-banging until I figured out the SElinux parameters I needed
to change (could this *be* more obscure? no meaningful error messages
in the Samba log until I Googled them and a light dawned).
poc