Re: OpenBSD Home Server: Hints and Advices

2015-09-29 Thread Benny Lofgren
On 2015-09-29 04:00, dominik...@openmailbox.org wrote: > On 2015-09-28 20:15, Stuart Henderson wrote: >> On 2015-09-28, dominik...@openmailbox.org >> wrote: >>> I'll use a 500GB SATA drive for the OS installation and will setup two >>> WD Red drives in mirror using

Re: OpenBSD Home Server: Hints and Advices

2015-09-29 Thread dominik . db
Hummm I see all your points and that is good food for thoughts. I now see that it is indeed a bad setup for a backup solution. I thought that for a home user it is not necessarily worse than someone using an attached drive to its router (Apple Time Capsule for example). Note that I said "not

Re: OpenBSD Home Server: Hints and Advices

2015-09-29 Thread Devin Reade
--On Tuesday, September 29, 2015 01:14:39 PM +0200 Benny Lofgren wrote: However, even with mirrored drives, IT IS NOT A BACKUP. What if there is a fire? What if someone burglars your house and steals the server? What if someone accidentally knocks it over and all disks

Re: OpenBSD Home Server: Hints and Advices

2015-09-29 Thread Devin Reade
--On Tuesday, September 29, 2015 11:38:00 AM -0600 Devin Reade wrote: To the OP, while most of the advice on this thread has been good, I'd be careful of that one. *Keep* your drives in a mirrored configuration and have *additional* disks for backup purposes. Just to clarify,

Re: OpenBSD Home Server: Hints and Advices

2015-09-29 Thread Benny Lofgren
On 2015-09-29 19:51, Devin Reade wrote: > --On Tuesday, September 29, 2015 11:38:00 AM -0600 Devin Reade > wrote: > >> To the OP, while most of the advice on this thread has been good, I'd >> be careful of that one. *Keep* your drives in a mirrored configuration >> and have

Re: OpenBSD Home Server: Hints and Advices

2015-09-28 Thread Quartz
It's gonna be behind a 3020j surge protector A $20 spikebar will NOT protect this machine from a lightning strike that hits the pole in front of your house. Take a different view: Mirrored drives and RAID are not really for data protection, they're so you can keep operating in face of

Re: OpenBSD Home Server: Hints and Advices

2015-09-28 Thread Quartz
Well, isn't your NAS already a backup? No. At least, not really. Any "online" backup (in other words, an actively running machine) is always subject to issues that could destroy your data. The power supply could go bad and fry your drives, software issues could cause silent corruption, and

Re: OpenBSD Home Server: Hints and Advices

2015-09-28 Thread Romain FABBRI
Nor a safe in case of a major fire. -Message d'origine- De : owner-m...@openbsd.org [mailto:owner-m...@openbsd.org] De la part de Quartz Envoyé : mardi 29 septembre 2015 06:35 À : misc@openbsd.org Objet : Re: OpenBSD Home Server: Hints and Advices >It's gonna be behind a 3020j su

Re: OpenBSD Home Server: Hints and Advices

2015-09-28 Thread dominik . db
On 2015-09-28 20:15, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2015-09-28, dominik...@openmailbox.org wrote: I'll use a 500GB SATA drive for the OS installation and will setup two WD Red drives in mirror using softraid(4). Any particular reason not to just put the OS on the

Re: OpenBSD Home Server: Hints and Advices

2015-09-28 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2015-09-28, dominik...@openmailbox.org wrote: > I'll use a 500GB SATA drive for the OS installation and will setup two > WD Red drives in mirror using softraid(4). Any particular reason not to just put the OS on the mirrored drives? > If I setup a script that'll