M3rl3n Posted December 22, 2015 Share Posted December 22, 2015 Hi All, Although I'm a software engineer, I have little / no experience with servers and managing a network. I know what I want to do but, I'm not sure how to get there, so I have a feeling I'll be asking a lot of questions. So far, from what I've seen, I really like the Lime Tech OS, although I will continue on the trial period until I have things configured right. In advance, I apologize for all of the questions that I will be asking. As far as hardware, I believe that I done a pretty good job in setting up a good server. In a beautiful Fractal Mode 804 case: MB: ASRock FM2A88M Pro3+ APU: AMD A10-5800K Trinity Quad - Core 3.8GHz Socket FM2 RAM: 32GB G. Skill DDR3 PC312800 Currently, with the limitations of the Trial software, I have three hard drives. Set as the parity drive, a 2TB WDC drive, Disk 1 is a Hitachi 2TB, and a 640GB drive set as a Cache Drive. I do have more drives to add in which will take total storage space to ~6TB (for now - I plan to replace drives with 2TB drives as I able) and another drive to add to the Cache. What I want the server to do (her name is Becca) is 3 fold; 1) Backup my files from my (our) cell phones, tablets, laptops and the main desktop, especially my photographs (see also www.briodan.smugmug.com). 2) Serve as a media server for our music and movies 3) Provide a backup server for my family's files from their computers. Any suggestions as to how to setup the above capabilities would be most welcomed. Thanks for you help. Link to comment
gundamguy Posted December 28, 2015 Share Posted December 28, 2015 I don't know what the best approach to 1 and 3 are, but I would recomend looking into Plex or Emby as your Media server solution. There are dockers and plugins on the forms here for both. Link to comment
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