[TriLUG] FreeNAS vs DIY

[Roy Vestal]

I use CentOS with LVM across multiple drives. It is an older Intel2Core 
Duo, 6GB of RAM and I run the following services:

Samba, NFS, ssh on ports different than the defaults. I have an older 
Cisco/Linksys NAS that I use as a mirror.
Bacula
KVM (dev servers for various projects)
squid/dansguardian for proxy and web filter.
rsync for database backups

At one point I used this machine for bind, but now I use a different 
machine for VPN and bind.

I looked at FreeNAS, but went with CentOS as I'm more of a RHEL guy.

HTH,
-Roy


On 9/15/13 9:58 AM, Igor Partola wrote:
> TriLUG,
>
> I am about to start converting an old desktop (2006 or so AMD Athlon X2, 4GB RAM) into a home server. It will need to serve the following functions:
>
> - A file storage server. It will get two 2TB drives for a RAID array to store important files like family photos and documents.
> - A NAS. It will need to seamlessly share files with Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X boxes.
> - A backup server for my remote machines. As in, it should be able to run rsnapshot to ssh to my remote machines, do database dumps, etc.
> - A VPN server. I think I will use OpenVPN for this.
> - A bind9 server for the LAN.
> - Run a couple of more custom daemons such as the eyefiserver (which can grab pictures from the Eye Fi SD Wi-Fi cards). Also a Flickr uploading script.
>
> My first question is whether FreeNAS can handle all these daemons without having to resort to compiling code specifically for it and hacking around where it will let you install things?
>
> My second question is: if FreeNAS is not the way to go (I will likely set up an Ubuntu machine then), what filesystem/RAID setup should I use to provide strong guarantees about data integrity? I want to ensure that there is as little bitrot as possible, that backups are easy, and that it is fairly fast.
>
> What do y'all recommend?
>
> Thanks,
> Igor
>