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[BackupPC-users] OT: NAS GUI for native Linux (preferably RHEL)
2012-01-10 13:56:44
Hello!
I'm in the middle of building a "Super"
Backup server. It will do the following:
Run BackupPC for file-level backups
Provide NFS share(s) for VMware snapshots
Provide CIFS share(s) for Windows snapshots
and Clonezilla
Contains a removable SATA tray
Manage all of this from a GUI
I am currently doing each of these features
on various different BackupPC servers already, but in each case it was
done manually, by hand, and from the command line. For this iteration,
I would like to wrap a GUI around it.
In the case of BackupPC, it has a GUI
and I will continue to use it. However, *many* of the functions I
would like to have the user perform do not: NFS shares, CIFS shares,
users, network settings, etc. However, these are *EXACTLY* the standard
function that a NAS does, and there are 1E6 of these already built.
So, my question: is there a NAS
GUI out there that can be added on top of "standard" Linux (preferably
RHEL, but very willing to consider others) that will add most of these
functions? For example, something like the GUI for an Iomega NAS
would be perfect. (I thought about using them as the hardware and
software base and adding BackupPC to them, but there's no built-in removable
drive, and USB is awkward and slow. Plus the Linux environment is...
minimal.)
I would prefer staying based on a generic
Linux install, but I've also thought about using a NAS-based distro as
the base (such as OpenFiler). In the specific case of OpenFiler,
the current version in a bit of a bad place at the moment. There
is much concern that the base OS, which is based on rPath, will not be
available for free users for much longer; in addition the current
beta version (2.99) has some known critical bugs in iSCSI (which I use),
and there have been no updates since April. So, it's not my favorite
base to build on... (Reference: https://forums.openfiler.com/viewtopic.php?pid=26228)
And I'd vastly prefer to stay with Linux,
which eliminates FreeNAS and Nexenta.
Many of the Linux-based NAS systems
are designed as firmware for dedicated (and often vastly inadequate) hardware:
NSLU2 falls into this camp. I am not running this on an embedded
device: It's a full-featured PC-based architecture.
I'm also willing to consider generic
Linux system management tools such as webmin, but I'd prefer something
more focused on NAS-type functions if I can get it. It's been years
since I've looked at Webmin, but a quick glance seems to show that it hasn't
changed much: it's little more than textareas with chunks of the
configuration files dumped into them. I'm hoping for something more
polished if I can get it.
Like I said, I'm looking for the general
interface provided by every NAS I've ever seen. Of course, each of
them is specific to their device. I'm hoping there's a version out
there for "generic" Linux.
Does anyone have any thoughts or suggestions
in this regard?
Thank you very much for your help!
Timothy J. Massey
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