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  1. Yeah my mistakes have been simple ones.

    /mnt/dev/ when it should be /mnt/device/ LOL

     

    When it comes to data loss I've always kicked back and watched you guys because you guys pull off some large and small miracles and like Joe L said I wouldn't want to put anybodys data at risk because I'd hate to be the one thinking I just helped somebody loose the birth of their first born or Their marriage photos because I was watching TV when I posted how to fix something.

  2. Don't feel bad Joe L has corrected me many times when I try to help out when I give incorrect advice. He has always been professional and has always said something to the tune of . I think you meant to say. Of course he has always been right and never has rubbed it in to prove his correctness. Kinda nice to know even when you mess up, which I'm sure we all do somebody will step up with the correct answer because somebody's data could be on the line and you don't feel like a total idiot when you are corrected.

     

    With that in mind I've been up to the task of helping out with my limited knowledge knowing that others look and wont tear you a new one if/when you give bad advice. Just like the new users even a bit older users sometimes could use a little coaching.  ;D

  3. Personally I wouldn't consider it secure enough out of the box for an enterprise solution. FTP open, telnet open and various other things.

     

    I'm not saying you couldn't secure it for a business, but where I work we have easily 2000 work stations and tons and tons of traffic across the network. Then again they are completely a windows based outfit, but hey they like to spend 1000's on licenses and tech support opposed to open source solutions.

     

    I think it would work great if there where several database servers or several file servers, but you would have to put some effort in locking it down.

     

    On a personal note I think its awesome for my personal home use and its stood up to everything I can think of throwing at it.

  4. Often on Ebay and local PC recycle shops you can normally pick up ELO touchscreens around $100. I've bought two locally. 1) I use in a Home Made Jukebox and the second well I'm using it for a LCD monitor because my other monitor burned up.

     

    The first one was de-cased so there where mounting screws on the sides of the monitor and all it took was cutting out a square hole in a piece of wood and flush mounting the monitor.

     

    I thought about building a low powered low heat generated PC and hide either in a Cabinet or on top of the cabinet so it could exhaust and either cutting a square hole in a cabinet or have a custom wooden frame built that would pivot down and lock so it could be touched without it trying to tuck back up under the cabinet.

  5. I use RSS feeds a lot to grab things, but I noticed there is no RSS support in Transmission. I found it for mac, but well we are running Linux.

     

    Does anybody know a way to make it work with RSS feeds? I have my windows machine setup to look for very specific things and download them, but I wouldn't want it to willy nilly grab everything or nothing at all of course.

     

    Found FlexGet - haven't installed Transmission or FlexGet, but it at least looks promissing to an extent.

    http://flexget.com/

  6. What putting my Cooler Master 590 on my desk with my monitor in front of it isn't going to look attractive?

     

    Heck the thing is big enough I might as well hang a mount on it and then suspend my monitor from the case. LOL Never mind the UPS on top and plugs sticking out the side.

  7. Honesly I never thought about doing this. I know for most its not even possible with the size of cases, but if you had a deep desk there isn't a reason in the world you couldn't put your PC behind your monitor.  :D

     

    http://www.slashgear.com/lian-li-unveils-pc-q09-and-pc-q09f-hideaway-pc-cases-09101491/

     

    I don't really plan on doing it, but I guess it would get my PC off the floor. Currently its sitting on a piece of wood roughly the size of the PC case to get it off the carpet.

  8. APC says.

    http://emea-en.apc.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/397

     

     

    We do not recommend this configuration for the following reasons:

     

     

    1) It is not UL tested. Therefore, should something go wrong and damages be caused to your connected equipment, APC would not honor the claim. (Underwriters Laboratories Inc. [uL] is an independent, not-for-profit product safety testing and certification organization)

     

    2)This configuration does not provide any extra surge protection. The UPS is designed to remove any possibility of a surge reaching the output receptacles. If a surge, strong enough to damage equipment was received, the first UPS in the chain would sacrifice itself to protect its load. This would mean that power would be removed from the 2nd UPS in the chain and force it to battery.

     

    3)Whenever connecting a 2nd UPS into a 1st UPS, the chance of Overloading the 1st UPS is greatly increased. The amount of receptacles in a UPS are restricted. This is due to the power limitations of the UPS itself. Although, the amount of receptacles has been increased, the overall Watt capacity of the 1st UPS remains the same. The capability of the 2nd UPS, will be inversely affected by that of the 1st UPS. Therefore, the overall Watt capacity of the configuration is no greater than that of the 1st UPS in line.

     

    4) In most cases, daisy-chaining UPSs does not allow for extra run time. If you are using a UPS that outputs a step-approximated sine wave when on battery, as soon as the fist UPS goes on battery, the second UPS will also go on battery because it will see the step-approximated sine wave as distorted or bad power. Both units will discharge together, and will not provide any extra run-time to the load.

  9. I use XBMC and I normally just upload my files directly to

    /mnt/disk1

    /mnt/disk2

     

    But both of those drives are a Share called Movies. Is there a particular reason you don't want the shares other than not wanting them?

     

    The reason I ask is because I point my XBMC at \\tower\Movies and as long as I keep adding files and drives and the Movies share exist it will find them and play them perfectly without needing to keep adding new drives or additional mapping in XBMC.

  10. Not quite. Even if the disk is plugged into an unRAID system, the disk must explicitly be mounted as read-only. Failure to do so will cause writes to the disks to occur which will invalidate your parity.

     

    Unless you will never ever ever read the data written on those drives. Are you really asking for a parity protected array of WORN drives? Write Once Read Never.

     

    I wouldn't mind a WORN drive externally since it would be an offline copy anyways, however I'm sure some would argue that the data kept offline is simply because it was offline because its either not accessed often or not as important as what is online in the first place. Or heck maybe its so important that its not kept online because if/when it was damaged it could be devastating as a loss.

     

    I'd completely vote for a WORN setup, but then what would happen if you have say some OLD photos and then grandma presents you with some old photos of her parents and you want to store. Well in a WORN system you couldn't add without changing something in the array.

     

    Would this be a setup where a second parity drive would be needed?

  11. I haven't implemented a offline backup as of yet, but I'm thinking of using a Toaster Style NAS that I have either in the garage or away from my other machine just in case there is a fire, flood or other act of god. ;) Its currently off, but does contain a lot of what I have been putting on my unRAID setup.

     

    I still think I might implement another drive in the array to make a copy of important data that is on hand

  12. I'm very aware there is no protection, however in the current state of things USB is about as hot swapable as we can get from an off the shelf solution without a fancy motherboard or getting exotic with Linux configurations.

     

    Is it even remotely possible to include detached items into the protected array? As it sits unless I'm nuts when the parity check is performed it takes into account everything that is currently connected. I'm guessing what you are asking is it possible to account for removed items, which would be really nice.