Homemade NAS - Final Report
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Alrighty! I used a laptop IDE hard drive as a boot device (I had to buy a 2.5-3.5 IDE adapter), and bought a 500gb SATA2 drive and connected it to the motherboard's one-and-only SATA2 connector. I installed FreeNAS onto the laptop hard drive, and via the webGUI, I formatted and mounted the SATA2 drive. I then had to go to the shell on NAS box in order to create directories and set their permissions. When that was done, Windows just sees the NAS box in Network Places, so I mapped the shares to drive letters and scheduled my backups to start tonight. As a test, I'm just doing my machine and my web server. If that goes well, I'll add the other two machines to the backup schedule. The box is silent, creates no discernible heat signature, and it just plain works. (Microsoft could learn a few lessons here.) Anyway, if you have any old hardware laying around not doing anything, building a NAS box to store backups makes a lot of sense.
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001 -
Alrighty! I used a laptop IDE hard drive as a boot device (I had to buy a 2.5-3.5 IDE adapter), and bought a 500gb SATA2 drive and connected it to the motherboard's one-and-only SATA2 connector. I installed FreeNAS onto the laptop hard drive, and via the webGUI, I formatted and mounted the SATA2 drive. I then had to go to the shell on NAS box in order to create directories and set their permissions. When that was done, Windows just sees the NAS box in Network Places, so I mapped the shares to drive letters and scheduled my backups to start tonight. As a test, I'm just doing my machine and my web server. If that goes well, I'll add the other two machines to the backup schedule. The box is silent, creates no discernible heat signature, and it just plain works. (Microsoft could learn a few lessons here.) Anyway, if you have any old hardware laying around not doing anything, building a NAS box to store backups makes a lot of sense.
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:
if you have any old hardware laying around not doing anything, building a NAS box to store backups makes a lot of sense.
Yep. A reliable machine I have for a little backup box is an old 233 Mhz P-MMX with 128 mb ram and Redhat Linux 9 on it. Nice little box for the quick little backup :)
"Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:
if you have any old hardware laying around not doing anything, building a NAS box to store backups makes a lot of sense.
Yep. A reliable machine I have for a little backup box is an old 233 Mhz P-MMX with 128 mb ram and Redhat Linux 9 on it. Nice little box for the quick little backup :)
"Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
Where the heck did you find a Pentium motherboard that supports 128MB of memory? All the ones I knew of had 64MB limits back in the day.
-- Where are we going? And why am I in this handbasket?
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Where the heck did you find a Pentium motherboard that supports 128MB of memory? All the ones I knew of had 64MB limits back in the day.
-- Where are we going? And why am I in this handbasket?
Erik Funkenbusch wrote:
128MB of memory
My bad. It's actually 256MB...
Erik Funkenbusch wrote:
Pentium motherboard
It is an old Tyan motherboard...
"Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
