Hoping to set up a general location to throw files.
It might be used as a storage dump for Plex too…
Recommendations?
Edit: the synology recommendations have won out. Went with the DS923+. Thanks for all of the thoughtful recommendations!
Hoping to set up a general location to throw files.
It might be used as a storage dump for Plex too…
Recommendations?
Edit: the synology recommendations have won out. Went with the DS923+. Thanks for all of the thoughtful recommendations!
Plenty of FOSS ways to set up a NAS. I’m going for Debian with ZFS myself, I prefer custom solutions as they are almost always more flexible than “NAS OS:es”.
What software do you need when using debian? Just ZFS as a file system?
It depends on what your goals are of course, but I use ZFS for the file system, sanoid to take snapshots on a schedule (hourly saved for a few days, daily saved for 1-2 weeks and so on up to monthly saved a year or two), Samba to actually share the files to Windows computers, Plex to share media to my TV.
Also rsync to a second (offsite) computer for replication/backups of the most important stuff. That computer also takes ZFS snapshots to get easy versioning of the files.
I wouldn’t recommend it for most people, but it’s nice if you’re comfortable working with Linux to begin with.
Is there good FOSS software that you can run on debian or ubuntu that can allow you to access your files using SFTP while the files are being stored with a RAID system? And is it possible to have your files store older versions of the file when you overwrite them and keep these older versions of the file for X months?