FreeNAS is all of that and built for storage and file sharing with a web interface.
-----Original Message----- From: Discuss [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Richard Pieri Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2015 1:58 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Discuss] Home server On 1/25/2015 12:37 PM, Rohan Joshi wrote: > Is there any particular distribution that is better than Ubuntu for > this purpose. I have a pentium D, and 2 gb of memory to work with. TrueOS. It's a server-focused variant of PC-BSD which is a FreeBSD derivative intended to be easy to deploy, use and maintain. > Also, any other suggestions of how to go about this are welcome. TrueOS. ZFS with mirrored storage disks. SMB or rsync/Unison or whatever gets your data onto the server. "zfs send" to copy snapshots to removable media for longer-term archival storage. You could use CentOS with ZFS on Linux but you would be saddled with a lot of bloat that you don't want on a small server. -- Rich P. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
