My perception is that once there's $SOFTWARE Community Edition and $SOFTWARE Enterprise Edition, the sponsoring company will usually gradually suffocate the CE version in order to push users into buying licenses for the EE version. I'm not saying this is happening here, but if I were building a #NAS box, I'd keep that in mind when deciding what software stack to run on it.
This looks like a nice little project for Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4. It is a two-drive #NAS that runs on standard !RasPi operating systems instead of some storage vendor's proprietary OS.
It is still in development, not a finished product, and is targeted at tinkerers.
@geniusmusing When I say “limited” I mean limited membership and a cap on storage space, so that it doesn’t need some sort of fundraising to maintain.
I was already thinking about trying to get some sort of cloud-based encrypted backup for all the other sites (instead of the current process of plugging an external HDD into my laptop), so I can automate the process, but once I’m not travelling (logging in from hotels), I can automate it from my end and build something like https://battlepenguin.com/tech/video/build-a-small-form-factor-storage-server-nas/ to store them on. #battlepenguin #NAS
Note: everything I’ve read about #tarsnap sounds good, but a person who recently spent over a year off work is best off limiting their repeating payments.
"Western Digital, Seagate and Toshiba have begun selling SMR drives without labeling them as such, thus revealing a large controversy, as SMR drives are much slower in some circumstances than PMR drives.[9] These practices were used to be in both data storage-dedicated (for servers, NASes and cold storage) and consumer-centric HDDs." [2]
Also, #TIL: SMR (Shingled magnetic recording) [3], PMR (Perpendicular magnetic recording) .
The OP explains why this is an issue in [4] and [5] and [9].
Also, #TIL (Today I learned) the terms: LMR (longitudinal magnetic recording [6], and PMR (Perpendicular magnetic recording) [7] ... I already knew generally about both processes, but did not have specialized terminology for them. (CMR [8] is a rename of PMR.)
All the NAS units I've purchased (possibly excepting #sonOne's, since I did not buy drives for him) also got WD Red NAS drives. Possibly they were older PMR/CMR drives, but since WD did not properly label their products, I do not know.
What I'm probably going to do is remove all or almost all of my files from the app space and just use the direct filesystem access area until I set up the #Odroid #HC-1.
I still need to help my mom and sister get more of their stuff uploaded to the #NAS anyway.
I really want just a networked file system. I can store my grandchild photos under "/myname/Pictures" and put my documents and spreadsheets under "/myname/Documents"; my .oga, .ogg, and .flac files can go under "/myname/Music" ... with permissions.
Then if I wanted to use their audio streaming app, once I logged in, it would know where my collection is, and would play only my music. Naturally, there would be a "/public" with subdirs for Music, Documents, Photos, etc. The apps would give the choice of showing / playing /public files or not doing so.
The default upload / download / display / play would of course be private (user account only). With a checkbox, the user could upload files to subdirs of /public, and view / play / download files from subdirs of /public.
(NOTE: there is a filesystem exposed to my file browser [in my case, I'm using Krusader and SMB4K], but it does not show the files available to the apps.)
Temporary Marjolein (mk@oracle.skilledtests.com)'s status on Thursday, 09-Jul-2015 08:07:57 UTC
Temporary MarjoleinI just managed to write a 'real' bash script that runs rsync for backing up my home directory/partition to Hal with a fixed set of options but which also accepts and screens a set of possible extra options (via getopts) to extend/modify behavior. That took some learning and searching and testing and doing, but it's done and it works. It will now run every day at midnight via cron. \o/ This will become the model for all my to-be-automated backups! !linux #bash #nas #rsync
Temporary Marjolein (mk@oracle.skilledtests.com)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jun-2015 13:52:48 UTC
Temporary Marjoleinnearly done setting up a whole series of repos on Hal (NAS), one for each plugin and theme I will wirk on or *may* work on. this will then match "projects" in my IDEs. Still have to work out how to connect to a "remote" (NAS) repo from Nikola, probably keypair auth with SSH, but it seems there are at least three different ways/protocols to connect so I have to study that. Still, making a LOT of progress! #hal #nas #git #ide
Temporary Marjolein (mk@oracle.skilledtests.com)'s status on Monday, 08-Jun-2015 16:36:31 UTC
Temporary Marjoleinvery busy preparing my notes (adding dates and such where missing) so I can start "importing" them in my #wordpress on Hal (the #nas). I'd also like to import my various rumblings about setting up WordPress here into posts, so I looked up some candidates. This should at least be possible, but I discovered the #atom feed is far from valid (using the W3C validator) so it's doubtful that could be imported. At least the RSS feed *is* valid.