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I keep local backups of everything. The HP Microserver I bought is very handy for stuff like that. If anything happens to my servers (ALL of them) being back on

by Adirael 13y ago

I keep local backups of everything. The HP Microserver I bought is very handy for stuff like that. If anything happens to my servers (ALL of them) being back online will be a matter of hours/days and not years.

easytiger 13y ago
What is the noise output of one of those?
- Adirael 13y ago
  HP claims 22dB. I saw a blog post that swapped the fan and added a variable resistor to achieve 6dB. The one I got at the office is barely noticeable (it's at my feet). On a home setting a closet would be a good place to hide it and shield any sound from the hard driver or fans.
- sliverstorm 13y ago
  Just to throw in, my synology purpose-built nas is virtually silent. The drives chatter a bit now because I turned off their automatic acoustic management (AAM), but other than that I cannot hear it unless I am right by it.
brk 13y ago
But that doesn't really scale to a "solution". Yes, it works for you, or any other technically savvy person. But the average cloud subscriber wants a solution as an ALTERNATIVE to that.
driverdan 13y ago
How would that help in a situation like Dotcom's? Their servers were taken and his house was raided. Any backup system at his house would have been taken as well.
- Adirael 13y ago
  Not him, but the people whose data he hosted. Dotcom was acting as an ISP, not a consumer.
enraged_camel 13y ago
The number one rule of backups is to never have them in the same place (i.e. local) as the live data.
WickyNilliams 13y ago
I've got a hp microserver but haven't yet set it up. I've never set up a server from scratch before, do you have any advice or guidance or any good tutorials? Good to hear that they're serving you well though
- Adirael 13y ago
  Depends on what you want to achieve with it. I installed Ubuntu Server, threw and configured SAMBA and a small LAMP server on it and not much more. For getting the backups from the production servers I use rdiff-backup and cron. I'm not using RAID at the moment as it suits me better to just have four big drives. A friend of mine is running the same setup plus a Plex Media Server and some small toys. My Twitter and HN handle are the same and my email is on my profile if you have any specific question.
  - WickyNilliams 13y ago
    Thanks for the info, that's kind of what I want it for - backups, general file storage and possibly a development server. I'll be sure to get in touch if I need some advice, the offer of help is much appreciated.

by Adirael 13y ago

easytiger 13y ago

What is the noise output of one of those?

Adirael 13y ago
HP claims 22dB. I saw a blog post that swapped the fan and added a variable resistor to achieve 6dB. The one I got at the office is barely noticeable (it's at my feet). On a home setting a closet would be a good place to hide it and shield any sound from the hard driver or fans.
sliverstorm 13y ago
Just to throw in, my synology purpose-built nas is virtually silent. The drives chatter a bit now because I turned off their automatic acoustic management (AAM), but other than that I cannot hear it unless I am right by it.

brk 13y ago

But that doesn't really scale to a "solution". Yes, it works for you, or any other technically savvy person. But the average cloud subscriber wants a solution as an ALTERNATIVE to that.

driverdan 13y ago

How would that help in a situation like Dotcom's? Their servers were taken and his house was raided. Any backup system at his house would have been taken as well.

Adirael 13y ago
Not him, but the people whose data he hosted. Dotcom was acting as an ISP, not a consumer.

enraged_camel 13y ago

The number one rule of backups is to never have them in the same place (i.e. local) as the live data.

WickyNilliams 13y ago

I've got a hp microserver but haven't yet set it up. I've never set up a server from scratch before, do you have any advice or guidance or any good tutorials? Good to hear that they're serving you well though

Adirael 13y ago
Depends on what you want to achieve with it. I installed Ubuntu Server, threw and configured SAMBA and a small LAMP server on it and not much more. For getting the backups from the production servers I use rdiff-backup and cron. I'm not using RAID at the moment as it suits me better to just have four big drives. A friend of mine is running the same setup plus a Plex Media Server and some small toys. My Twitter and HN handle are the same and my email is on my profile if you have any specific question.
- WickyNilliams 13y ago
  Thanks for the info, that's kind of what I want it for - backups, general file storage and possibly a development server. I'll be sure to get in touch if I need some advice, the offer of help is much appreciated.