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Opinion on my future setup for personal data storage

  • 24-06-2010 6:26pm
    #1
    irlforum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 179 ✭✭


    Hi,
    Currently I have use a WD passport drive 320GB for all my data. The drive is USB and it's a pain to connect it and cart it around - I like to be able to access something relatively quickly.

    I would like to be able to access my data at work or anywhere aswell and possibly have my work laptop receive my bookmarks temporarily should I require them.

    I'm thinking of setting up an old linux laptop at home and making it accessible over the net. My data is private so I will need to implement some sort of software solution for making data available over the net. I could just have my current WD passport USB drive plugged into this laptop as my "large" storage device. 320GB is plenty for me at the moment.

    Anybody got anything to add to the above idea that I may be missing out. I suppose it might be worthwhile investigating a possible video out on the laptop should I decide to output video playback in the future - I suppose potentially up to HD but this is not high priority.

    Not sure what kind of backup solution to implement yet either - Maybe another external USB would do the trick. Plug it in once a week or something and leave it in the car.


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  • #2
    sink
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,314 ✭✭✭sink


    It should be simple enough to set up a ftp server on your linux laptop. I have a ftp server set up on a windows machine using filezilla server, which I find to be good, but I don't think there is a linux version.

    There is a list of ftp server programs on wikipedia. Choose one that suits your needs I guess.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_FTP_server_software


  • #3
    corkcomp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,114 ✭✭✭corkcomp


    whats your budget? iomega have some small nas boxes which are accessible via www from anywhere and the retrospect software comes bundled for backing up client machines.. you can have stripe config or raid 1


  • #4
    irlforum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 179 ✭✭irlforum


    Hi,
    I've the server up and running now. A NAS box could have been suitable if I could have installed Linux on it. I've free laptop hardware though so it will do the trick - NAS raid solutions would be useful but not worth the cost vs. free laptop.

    Does anyone know about sharing bookmarks remotely? ie. configuring firefox at work to connect to my bookmark catalogue hosted from home. This is something I'm gonna to spend time with google on shortly.

    Also I'm modifying files remotely using filezilla client on a windows machine to connect to my home hosted ftp server. I've noticed that when I right click on a remote file via filezilla and edit it it downloads the file to a temporary disk location. It's a pity it can't be written into ram only...


  • #5
    bonzodog2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,254 ✭✭✭bonzodog2


    You might consider the idea of running a web server at home (depending on your home net connection possibly), with password-protected access, and having a html page with links to your bookmarks. I think some browsers (Mozilla ? maybe, open to correction on this) save their bookmarks as a webpage. Or you could make up an html doc that would do this.

    Just an idea !


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