Free NAS installation madness: I blame the heat. It took me most of a day of screwing around, but I got it to work. In the end, when I just opted for the easy way, it was pretty quick and easy to install really. Firstly, not having a spare compact flash card around (which apparently you can install it on, as well as a USB key), I decided to try and use an SD card plugged into my card reader. It just would not work. I booted up from a CD, and I designated it as the drive to install the OS on. It managed to copy over a config file and then it just stopped. I should probably explain what I was trying to install this on. It is an old Dell machine, with a 2GHz P4 and I think 1GB of RAM. It has two hard discs, a 120GB and a 4GB. So in the end I just installed the OS on the 4GB drive (which it actually decided to partition into a 96MB part, which it installed itself on and the rest is … gone? I don’t seem to be able to mount it). My plan for this is to buy a cheap 128MB compact flash card from ebay(~$5 after shipping), get a CF to IDE adapter from newegg (~$17 after shipping) and install the free NAS os on that to save power.
Bucket explorer madness: I bought bucket explorer. It is an alright program, works well, has a fair amount of features. But not the feature I bought it for. My fault, I was reading through their forums and saw reference to its syncing abilities … in version 2. Which has not been released yet. So, something to look forward to. They are having an open beta right now, so I expect version 2 isn’t too far away.
Next step madness: First thing I need to do is buy a fan for my hard drives in the NAS. We are sort of in a heat wave at the moment, or maybe it has just suddenly decided to be summer all of a sudden. Either way, my discs can get up to 48°C, which is 10-15 degrees more than I would like them to be.
Then, I would like to figure out some way of syncing up S3 with the NAS, rather than just with my PC. One plausible way of doing that is with a ruby rsync thing, but that was todays mission which I will have to post on tomorrow. That way, when I want to back something up, I send it to the NAS, and I have an onsite backup, then whenever it sends it up to S3 (nightly?) I will have an offsite backup also. Sounds really great.
So, in the end, I learnt a lot. Mainly that I do not like freeBSD unix.
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