Gmane web interface down

[Chris Samuel via luv-main]

Hi folks,

In case you're not aware the Gmane admin Lars has shut down the web interface 
for Gmane as he's too overloaded to keep it going:

https://lwn.net/Articles/695695/

Originally it was going to be the NNTP side as well, but he's now  said he's 
going to keep that up for now.

Lars original blog on this is here:

https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2016/07/28/the-end-of-gmane/

but the LWN article has constructive comments and an update on the change of 
heart that means the NNTP interface will keep going for now at least.

All the best,
Chris
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Re: Cheap Home Cloud ~ Raspberry Pi + USB Drives

[Piers Rowan via luv-main]

Any ideas? GFS?

GFS (GFS2 being the supported version) is about multiple nodes using the same
shared block devices, pretty much the opposite of what you need.


Good! I've never managed to get it to work anyway!



To satisfy the "remove one drive" criteria you want to have some user-space
system for synchronising files by copying them around.





Something like having the largest drive mounted as the root file 
system’s /home and then using a cron job ever hour to rsync the data (or 
portions of it) to the smaller drives?


rsync -avh --include '*/' --include '*.php' --prune-empty-dirs /home/ 
/mnt/code_drive
rsync -avh --include '*/' --include '*.jpg' --prune-empty-dirs /home/ 
/mnt/images_drive
rsync -avh --include '*/' --include '*.sql' --prune-empty-dirs /home/ 
/mnt/data_drive


I like this idea as it combines two of my favourite things, rsync and 
being a cheapskate!


Any pitfalls?

Cheers

P
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Re: Cheap Home Cloud ~ Raspberry Pi + USB Drives

[Russell Coker via luv-main]

On Fri, 29 Jul 2016 07:03:30 PM Piers Rowan via luv-main wrote:
> - Set up a Raspberry Pi server which exposes a single file system
> - Link it to the USB HDD's of different sizes that I have lying around
> - I save my data to it for backups
> - The data is placed redundantly over the drives so it can recover from 
> one [or more] dying
> 
> Bonus point:
> - I can remove one of the drives and access the data on it directly (so 
> it is FAT32 not Linux RAID)
> 
> Any ideas? GFS?

GFS (GFS2 being the supported version) is about multiple nodes using the same 
shared block devices, pretty much the opposite of what you need.

If you want multiple block devices of different sizes in one array then BTRFS 
is the only option.  But RAID-1 is the only level of RAID that should be 
considered safe with BTRFS at this time.  Also this files the "remove one 
drive" criteria.

To satisfy the "remove one drive" criteria you want to have some user-space 
system for synchronising files by copying them around.

Whatever you choose make sure you have checksums, USB devices aren't the most 
reliable ways of storing data.

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Re: Cheap Home Cloud ~ Raspberry Pi + USB Drives

[Piers Rowan via luv-main]

Not to distract from Piers's enquiry but isn't home cloud an oxymoron?




You have no idea of where I live or how big my house is you insensitive 
clod!!!


:-)

I was on Newegg today and they have a product group called home cloud - 
its basically wireless NAS.


My usage was to imply I don't want to have to care what happens on the 
other side of the storage node - like cloud - but also built from the 
100 random IT purchases over the last 10 years..

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Re: Cheap Home Cloud ~ Raspberry Pi + USB Drives

[Colin Fee via luv-main]

On 29 Jul 2016 7:03 pm, "Piers Rowan via luv-main" 
wrote:
>
> Friday random semi-serious question;
>
> Like many people I have too much data some work, some create some family,
some other...etc. I have some on some backup USB drives that I have never
gone back to and also a few unplugged HDD's in the tower (I can't remember
even why).
>
> I don't really want to go and buy something (or pay for data of cloud
storage) but I thought I might do something with the stuff I have lying
around. Does anyone know if this is possible:
>
> - Set up a Raspberry Pi server which exposes a single file system
> - Link it to the USB HDD's of different sizes that I have lying around
> - I save my data to it for backups
> - The data is placed redundantly over the drives so it can recover from
one [or more] dying
>
> Bonus point:
> - I can remove one of the drives and access the data on it directly (so
it is FAT32 not Linux RAID)
>
> Any ideas? GFS?

Not to distract from Piers's enquiry but isn't home cloud an oxymoron?
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Cheap Home Cloud ~ Raspberry Pi + USB Drives

[Piers Rowan via luv-main]

Friday random semi-serious question;

Like many people I have too much data some work, some create some 
family, some other...etc. I have some on some backup USB drives that I 
have never gone back to and also a few unplugged HDD's in the tower (I 
can't remember even why).


I don't really want to go and buy something (or pay for data of cloud 
storage) but I thought I might do something with the stuff I have lying 
around. Does anyone know if this is possible:


- Set up a Raspberry Pi server which exposes a single file system
- Link it to the USB HDD's of different sizes that I have lying around
- I save my data to it for backups
- The data is placed redundantly over the drives so it can recover from 
one [or more] dying


Bonus point:
- I can remove one of the drives and access the data on it directly (so 
it is FAT32 not Linux RAID)


Any ideas? GFS?

Cheers

P
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