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Just out of curiosity, How do you build a home server?

jmedina

just a computer w/ windows home server (beta)

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brian

Really? I wonder if I could use Linux.

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jmedina

you could. what do you want to use it for

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brian

I was just curious. It is a pipe dream

But, I would use it for backing up everything from my computers.

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jmedina

I know free open source solution that you could use for imaging

DRBL

Then you could set up another volume on your Linux rig for data back ups and just share it to mac and windows via Samba.

Overall, it is not hard to set up as long as you know some basics.

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tlarkin

Really? This is a dumb question, How do you wire everything in?

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jmedina

what do you mean wire

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brian

In other words, How do you set it up?

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jmedina

it is just like installing windows. you will need like 10 gb. i find that is all i need... or do you mean like hardware. if so it can be crappy. it can be like a 1ghz 512 mb ram 20 gb hd (could be 10) if you want a firewall, 2 lan, if not just 1, that is it

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