Backup server/home nas

[RUWO_builder]

Hi,

recently,a friend of mine bought a server to use for backups.he was kind enough to let me use a 500gig partition of his raid array.

now,the problem is That my internet conection is quiet slow,althoug i have gigabit internal networking.

so i grabed An old laptop,conected some USB hdds,plugde it in to my mail switch,and BAM.i realised That this would not work,be becouse i can not transfer to it.

 

so,what do i need to do now,in order to use it as a nas/Back-up server?

it would be awesome if it would be free 

so no Windows server stuff

[RUWO_builder]

I ducking hate autocorrect..........

blame HIM for all of the mistakes

 

 

 

[NTDaws]

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[Electronics Wizardy]

How well do you know linux.

 

Id personally put something like centos 7 on it, then setup a raid or pool of the drives and then setup samba or nfs to copies the files to it.

[RUWO_builder]

my daily driver runs Ubuntu,so i how Linux quiet well.

but i have never heard of samba of nfs

 

 

[Electronics Wizardy]

4 minutes ago, RUWO_builder said:

my daily driver runs Ubuntu,so i how Linux quiet well.

but i have never heard of samba of nfs

 

 

samba is the software that lets you make a cifs/smb server on linux for share files with windows pc's on the network.

 

NFS is the same thing, but for unix systems, its normally faster and i use it when i can.

 

 

[RUWO_builder]

So if i understand it,i would make a bootable device with centOS 7

,put it, on That computer,instal nfs or samba,configure it and then i am done?

i am not going to use raid,because i use three diffrent  capacity and speed drives.

[Electronics Wizardy]

3 minutes ago, RUWO_builder said:

So if i understand it,i would make a bootable device with centOS 7

,put it, on That computer,instal nfs or samba,configure it and then i am done?

i am not going to use raid,because i use three diffrent  capacity and speed drives.

yep that will work. Even if your not using raid, you can use something like snapraid to let you add redunancy to the drives.

[RUWO_builder]

Do i need special software on the user end?

do i use samba or nfs?

[Electronics Wizardy]

Just now, RUWO_builder said:

Do i need special software on the user end?

do i use samba or nfs?

The client software for samba and nfs is built into osx, most linux desktops, and windows. 

 

 

[RUWO_builder]

So should i use samba or nfs

[Electronics Wizardy]

13 minutes ago, RUWO_builder said:

So should i use samba or nfs

Id probably setup samba. Its normally easiler to setup, better support in windows.

 

 

[RUWO_builder]

Thx i Will try this