Re: [tlug] Raid5 box & backup

["Edmund Edgar" <lists@example.com>]

Bruno wrote:

> If there is a chance to avoid any Windows dependency, that would be perfect.

Of course, there's no actual Windows stuff in the stack here - Microsoft just happen to have invented the filesharing protocol; The implementation on the box is free software...

 
> As you know these boxes, do you think an ext3 filesystem is something possible without too much issues?

ext3 should work fine. (I think the default it shipped with was XFS.)

> I would prefer a known replication system instead of the built-in one (for instance, I would like to change one of the arrays one day, which could be a different brand)... I think I would like to "hack" (ie: having it working independently for the backup). It means at least crontabs working, even during my holidays, when my computers are sleeping.

OK, makes sense. (Although the thing does have a built-in scheduler, so you could still get the backups working when during holidays even without hacking the box.)

You may have seen this page:
http://www.terastation.org/wiki/Hacking

It has some existing hacked firmware that will probably work (fingers crossed) on whatever you buy, but I guess there's a slight risk (I don't know much about this kind of thing) that they'll have done something to the hardware that you buy that makes it incompatible with the older firmware versions out there, in which case you may have quite a bit more work to do to break in.

Anyhow, let us know how you get on.

Edmund