Hi,

I need to set up 2 servers, one in my office with linux (which distro would you recomend?) to set a a SAMBA service and share 150gb of .psd files inside my lan network, and a dedi in the US in which I will backup daily that 150gb over the internet (1mb dedi line).


ANy recomendation on how to do it, samba, rsync? via VPN, via ssh? Which distro?

Thanks!!!!!

Ubuntu might be friendly for what you are trying to accomplish.

For an office setting, I would suggest RHEL or it's equivalent CentOS. Just in case you need some type of local support from an in office visit from a systems administrator, you will find more available for the two distros listed above. Each distro comes with the tools you will need for AD integration, Samba, Winbind, Ldap, etc.. Using rsync for incremental backups would work well also for your setup as well on the line speed you have stated.

RHEL will be better

there's no reason why RHEL would do any better for this, as you can do the same with e.g. Debian based distros.

as far as setup is concerned, yes you could use SAMBA cifs share for local office backups, and for remote backups rsync will play well on your 1mbit line, syncing only changed data.

I would recommend CentOS perhaps version 5.4 or later.
Then set up a drbd share. It will take some time for the initial sync, but then it will keep the local and remote drives constantly synced.

If you decide to go that way, let me know if you need help. Have done that many times. Works like a charm.


Hi,

I need to set up 2 servers, one in my office with linux (which distro would you recomend?) to set a a SAMBA service and share 150gb of .psd files inside my lan network, and a dedi in the US in which I will backup daily that 150gb over the internet (1mb dedi line).


ANy recomendation on how to do it, samba, rsync? via VPN, via ssh? Which distro?

Thanks!!!!!

Hi,

I need to set up 2 servers, one in my office with linux (which distro would you recomend?) to set a a SAMBA service and share 150gb of .psd files inside my lan network, and a dedi in the US in which I will backup daily that 150gb over the internet (1mb dedi line).


ANy recomendation on how to do it, samba, rsync? via VPN, via ssh? Which distro?

Thanks!!!!!

150GB is a heck of a lot of data for a 1mb line (I assume by 1mb you mean 1 million bits per second.)

If you needed to restore 150GB at that speed, it would take about two weeks.

Is that an acceptable restore time? Or does the 1mbit line work faster for restoring data?

Hello,

You could use FreeNAS, very nice lightweight distro, nice web interface and you could set it up as an iSCSI.

Regards,
Gareth

FreeNAS would be better. Also, for distro, you can use CentOS. Its very good.

I would also recommend RHEL - its generally much better.

FreeNAS would be better. Also, for distro, you can use CentOS. Its very good.

Sorry to thread jack. ;)

Has anyone got a FreeNAS box (Using R-Sync) to backup a VPS successfully?

:)

I hope your PSD backup software creates small incremental files. Completely maxed out, a 1Mbps line can only transfer about 10GB per day.

that transfer speed is a concern. Have you thought about revisiting your setup?

Centos + rsync