Moving from Windows server 2008 R2 to Linux server

[puunakki]

Hello everyone!

 

I'm migrating all of my systems from windows operating systems to linux based systems. I have two laptops and one workstation and they all run Ubuntu mate distros, which i really like. I also have a freenas box and my windows server, with windows server it goes a bit tricky. It really doesn't run anything much nowadays, only plex media server and cobian backup to manage my backups from the freenas box to a Buffalo Linkstation.

 

So all my data is stored on the freenas file server, and windows serveri (cobian) makes a incremental backup of it everynight to the Buffalo NAS (which is really really slow, but is allright as a backup location). I really like to have a gui on my server which i can remote to and check the backup logs etc. So what kind of distro would you recommend for my needs? I was thinking about Ubuntu server and then installing the mate desktop with the following command: 

sudo apt install --no-install-recommends ubuntu-mate-desktop

This should only install the DE with essential parts, no libreoffice etc. right?

 

Is there something like cobian backup for linux? I really would like it to have a gui. Also my backups on the Buffalo NAS are in an encrypted container that is made with veracrypt, luckily it's avalaible for linux.

[Electronics Wizardy]

3 hours ago, puunakki said:

I really like to have a gui on my server which i can remote to and check the backup logs etc.

Don't, it doesn't doesn't do as much as a cli can do and its a security hole and uses resources.

 

3 hours ago, puunakki said:

Is there something like cobian backup for linux?

Rsync scripts in a cron job is your best hope here. DD for images.

 

3 hours ago, puunakki said:

I really would like it to have a gui.

Nothing in the linux server world uses gui's. Move away from that idea.

 

 

[puunakki]

18 hours ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Don't, it doesn't doesn't do as much as a cli can do and its a security hole and uses resources.

 

Rsync scripts in a cron job is your best hope here. DD for images.

 

Nothing in the linux server world uses gui's. Move away from that idea.

 

 

Ok I hear you, not going to install a DE then  I think i'm gonna go with a Ubuntu server install, as I'm most familiar with ubuntu based systems. Not going to destroy my Windows Server 2008 R2 install just yet. First I'm going to test drive the Ubuntu server on a laptop, so I'm 100% sure I can get everything up and running without much of a hassle.

 

Thanks for your response!

[Mikensan]

I have plex running inside a docker container, and loving it. I use Plexpy to keep an eye on my plex server, inside of its own container. My torrent daemon (deluge) runs on a centos server, which I enabled/install the web UI plugin so I can track progress without logging in.

 

Honestly not much reason to have an O/S GUI for file storage and plex.

 

Rsync is dead simple to use, and a ton of examples for unique situations. All my torrents dump into a single folder, so I've got rsync jobs I manually run to pull files bigger than 2gb to my movies folder on the network, since I never download movies smaller than 2gb. Only challenge is if I download something as rar which is far and few inbetween.

 

Once you start using CLI, you just get familiar and eventually remember the commands you need. Scarier than it really is. Make the plunge, you'll be fine.

[puunakki]

2 minutes ago, Mikensan said:

I have plex running inside a docker container, and loving it. I use Plexpy to keep an eye on my plex server, inside of its own container. My torrent daemon (deluge) runs on a centos server, which I enabled/install the web UI plugin so I can track progress without logging in.

 

Honestly not much reason to have an O/S GUI for file storage and plex.

 

Rsync is dead simple to use, and a ton of examples for unique situations. All my torrents dump into a single folder, so I've got rsync jobs I manually run to pull files bigger than 2gb to my movies folder on the network, since I never download movies smaller than 2gb. Only challenge is if I download something as rar which is far and few inbetween.

 

Once you start using CLI, you just get familiar and eventually remember the commands you need. Scarier than it really is. Make the plunge, you'll be fine.

It's not that i haven't been messing with CLI, it's just that I haven't used it enough to feel cozy with it. ATM I'm trying to figure out how to mount my NFS share from Freenas on my Ubuntu system  It's a PITA.. all i get is connection timed out, maybe I will start a new thread

[Mikensan]

1 hour ago, puunakki said:

It's not that i haven't been messing with CLI, it's just that I haven't used it enough to feel cozy with it. ATM I'm trying to figure out how to mount my NFS share from Freenas on my Ubuntu system  It's a PITA.. all i get is connection timed out, maybe I will start a new thread

Oh I did exactly that within CentOS, was very easy. The part that got me caught up, is you need to write out the full path when mounting NFS.

Say you have a volume called Tank01 and a dataset called Dataset01 and the path is /Tank01/Dataset01, and lets say your hostname is Freenas01...

 

sudo mount Freenas01:/Tank01/Dataset01

 

If you're getting timeouts then replace Freenas01 with your IP Address.

 

**Edit: to get more cozy, you'll have to just go balls deep. Force yourself to "have" to deal with CLI.