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Re: [BackupPC-users] OT: NAS GUI for native Linux (preferably RHEL)
2012-01-16 21:03:19
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 5:31 AM, Timothy J Massey <tmassey AT obscorp DOT com> wrote:
"Tyler J. Wagner" <tyler AT tolaris DOT com>
wrote on 01/12/2012 04:53:49 PM:
> So how about FreeNAS with BackupPC installed?
>
> http://harryd71.blogspot.com/search/label/backuppc
Honest answer? My prejudice against non-Linux
UNIX, especially with something as important as backup. I don't want
to run into subtle issues that won't show themselves until I really, really
need those backups... (That red text right up near the top of your
link? *That* is what I'm talking about...)
Which is why OpenFiler would be such a natural fit,
if the current version didn't have serious bugs that haven't been fixed
since April, and an upstream base that seems to be going away...
So it seems there isn't a perfect fit; IMO the closest would be
Openfiler - and if the newest version (which I haven't even looked at) doesn't suit, the "final legacy" version hasn't IMO had any serious issues, won't be getting and
doesn't need any updating, so the rPath issue doesn't really matter, it should just remain stable, just toss a BPC
running in a VM on top and you're done.
A more involved alternative would be to "reverse engineer" those
components you want from OF and just create a customized distro based on
whatever you're most comfortable with, e.g. an automated kickstart of
CentOS should serve well, and is a close analogue to the rPath environment anyway.
If the client really needs GUI management of the underlying OS, Ubuntu
might be a better fit, or maybe they deserve a windoze server, can VM a
BPC host on top of that as well.
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