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Newbie requesting too much time/effort!
Hello,
I'm a novice Linux user and a new BSD user. I've loaded Ubuntu on a half dozen machines and mucked around in another half dozen distros. I've been in that learning curve off and on for a year or so. All I've done in BSD so far is: -Load it on an old laptop -Load xfce on that -Load it on a "rough draft" box (like a "training wheels" version of a file server) -Set up key-auth OpenSSH and harden login security This Essay was extremely compelling, on a basic level. So compelling, in fact, I would like to build my next file server on BSD. Here is a summary of what I would like to accomplish, given my current understanding: Hardware: -Low power consumption (as low as possible given the rest) -Five 1TB SATA hard drives in Raid 5, 4TB of storage space (I've never implemented RAID before). I'm willing to buy 6 drives when it comes time for hardware purchasing. Software: General: -Headless operation -Automatically updates OS and applications daily -The ability to know which of the drives has failed when any of them do -The ability to hot swap out drives at will for disk maintenance -The ability to "share" anything on the RAID array with my LAN (read only) -A safe "open" place on the RAID array to write data (dump files here) -Efficient file management (move files, tar, rar, zip, etc) Applications: -Moblock between WAN and all applications: http://moblock.berlios.de/ -HFS-like simple HTTP file server (for easy "anywhere") read access -Safe and easy WAN write access to the "dump" -Direct Connect client, bandwidth throttling -Bit Torrent client that monitors the dump for .torrent files, bandwidth throttling, encrypted connections -Newsgroup client that monitors the dump for .nzb files and .zip files containing .nzb files, encrypted connections -irssi + screen - Accessible from anywhere -All the above to come online at power up (it would be nice if they could come up 30 seconds apart - IRSSI, 30 seconds, MoBlock, 30seconds, Newsleecher, 30, Torrent, 30 ) So, if it is okay, as I go through this I'll just ask questions here in this thread. Is that okay? Any hardware/application suggestions? Suggested reading links? What would you do differently? Am I going to have to run Xorg? Which apps should be run under a unique user? Which apps should be run in jails (I have yet to touch jails but they sound like they'll be useful to me)? |
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