Home Server Software Ideas

**donniezazen** · April 13th, 2011

What do you guys use for Video on demand server?

**SquALeD** · April 13th, 2011

Hmm,

Core2Duo sitting in my workshop, about 2 gig ram with 2 1TB storage drives, a 250G torrent/usenet drive and a 250G OS drive.

A file server, media server, CCTV, FTP and torrent box

10.04 server, headless..

Runs:

Zoneminder - CCTV client, 2 cams at present and can view live stream via iPhone

VsFTPd - FTP client

Samba - shares to various windows, linux and macs round the house

Transmission - Torrents

Is set up for webserving but nothing on it yet.

WDTVLive boxes handle the audio/video round the house

Airvideo via an iMac to stream movies to iPhone over 3G.

Fancy adding more stuff tho...

**expatCM** · April 13th, 2011

hmmmm and you saved your set up as an iso and uploaded it some place?

**SquALeD** · April 13th, 2011

?? me?

Are you saying I have saved it or asking if i do??

**expatCM** · April 13th, 2011

yes ... you

Asking if you did upload it since it sounds like such a nice setup with many common elements that such a lot of people would find to be useful

**rubylaser** · August 31st, 2011

You could use any of Linux's free solutions like rsync, rsnapshot, Amanda, Bacula, etc. Or, you could use Crashplan's free plan to setup your machines to backup important data. I'd never spend money on such a simple task.

**The Real Dave** · August 31st, 2011

I'd agree totally with rubylaser. Spending money on a backup client is a waste.

Read the rsync man pages, get familiar with it's options and facilities, and you'll find that it'll do all you'll need and far more thereafter.

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