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  1. madcow
    Rsync can work in push or pull. Without knowing too much about the primary network I think the easiest thing to try would be to allow ssh access to your backup server via port forwarding and push from the primary server. Something like: rsync -av /<local_path> <backupuser>@<homeip><backup_path>
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    I'm a bit confused. What does your offsite network look like? You won't already have either VPN or SSH access to this network that you can use?
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    I've decided that I won't be cooking for as long as I am making enough money to not have to do so. I really don't want to waste more of what is left of my free time. Eating out is more expensive for sure but that is why I work.
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    I was on Chrome, went to FF for a while but now I'm back on Chrome again. FF is noticeably slower and seems to degrade in performance over time if I leave it running for a few weeks.
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    You could try it on ESXi: http://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Multi-headed-VMWare-Gaming-Setup-564/ This supports more hardware (such as geforce) but you need to work harder: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=162768&p=1
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    There are GUI clients for ssh such as winscp for Windows. http://winscp.net/eng/docs/screenshots A VPN for accessing your own network is free. You would just be running a VPN server on your machine.
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    There is no need to install a bunch of GUI libraries for this. First google search came up with this: http://askubuntu.com/questions/113379/suspend-and-wake-pc-at-certain-time Sounds like you can do something like this in cron: echo `date +%s -d '+9 hours'` > /sys/class/rtc/rtc0/wakealarm pm-hibernate
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    This is awesome. If you get a chance, please run some storage performance benchmarks once you have the ZFS fully setup Will you be running NFS? If so, could you share any special configurations you end up using to optimize for 10Gb?
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    Great show. Thoroughly enjoyed. Waiting for next season.
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    I'm actually hoping to start seeing desktop cases with no disk mounts at all. I will likely only have one SSD as M.2 on the motherboard for my next build.
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    Possibly a deleted file that is still accessed by a process. Does lsof show anything large? Are there any hidden files and directories under / ? Any files under a mount?
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    OSX for me. I have a mostly Linux network so it fits right in. Faimilar permissions, file structure, commands, native nfs and ssh support, etc. Game support is good enough for my little gaming needs. I do like the UI for the most part too.
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    I don't recommend it. Many things work but not very well. It has been a source of frustration and disapointment for me more than anything else.
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    This tool is representative of much of what I go through in life. Actually its not really that bad.
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    because Comcast.
  16. madcow
    Sennheiser HD800. Just can't justify the cost. I may not even be able to tell the difference.
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    I vote for the cheaper Seagates, not to save money, but so that you can buy more of them. For home storage I generally recommend getting more cheap drives for higher levels of redundancy, over getting fewer more expensive "higher quality" drives.
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    My next laptop will most likely be a Macbook Pro. Maybe once broadwell models come out.
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    ^this You will probably actually have a harder time setting up software using the GUI because most of the guides and forum help you find will involve using the terminal. I recommend just using ubuntu server and taking a few days to familiarize yourself with basic navigation commands.
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    I ended up going with the Cisco SG300-10.
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    I'm thinking logrotate makes the most sense for this. Something like.. /path/filename.txt { missingok copytruncate (may not be needed) rotate 4 (change this as needed) weekly sharedscripts postrotate #do the move here mv /path/filename.txt.1 /destination/filename.`date +%Y%m%d`.txt endscript}/path/another_filename {#handle another log file...}/path/*.log {#handle by wildcard...} Keep in mind this is untested and I'm no logrotate expert. I think a cleaner way to do this would be to have the application log directly to the destination directory and point logrotate to this directory though. You can omit the postrotate and use the dateext option to rename files by date.
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    Is noise of these devices a concern to you at all? That switch could be *very* loud. I got the 5424 but it was so loud that I ate the cost and replaced it with something else. I'm guessing the 5324 is similar. For reference I have two 4U boxes each with 5 fans at 5-6K RPM and the switch could be heard over these fans. Also if you plan to swap out the fans in the switch, you should do some research on compatible fans. The fan controller, at least on my unit was unreasonably picky and would not start the switch if the fans were missing or had been replaced with lower powered units.
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    Cool build. Nice to see something that is not a gaming tower every once in a while
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    I use external drives for portable OSes. I have a USB3 128GB SSD that I use regularly in place of internal storage. I don't notice a difference in performance compared to a SATA SSD. I also have a WD passport 750GB spinner that is useful for if I want a portable OS but also a bit more storage to go with it. Running an OS on a spinner feels so slow these days though so it has mainly become a recovery option.
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    pfsense KVM DHCP with features like PXE boot for network installs and iscsi boot iscsi target Edit: Also, if I was managing the box, I would move around services so that the host is only handling storage and storage shares. I would move everything else to VMs and containers.
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