Have suggestions for a "roll your own file server"?

[bruce.labitt at myfairpoint.net]

Nuts, what I meant was NAS.  There's open media vault, are there others that "easy enough" for relative beginners?

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On Mar 8, 2021, 7:35 PM, at 7:35 PM, Bruce Labitt <bdlabitt at gmail.com> wrote:
>For the second time in 3 months I have had a computer failure.  Oddly,
>it
>was a PS on the motherboard both times.  (Two different MB's.) 
>Fortunately
>the disks were ok.  I'm living on borrowed time.  Next time, I may not
>be
>that lucky.
>
>Need a file server system with some sort of RAID redundancy.  I want to
>backup 2 main computers, plus photos.  Maybe this RPI4 too, since
>that's
>what I'm running on, due to the second failure.  If this SSD goes, I'm
>gonna be a sad puppy.  This is for home use, so we are not talking
>Exabytes.  I'm thinking about 2-4TB of RAID.  Unless of course, RAID is
>obsolete these days.  Honestly, I find some of the levels of RAID
>confusing.  I want something that will survive a disk failure (or two)
>out
>of the array.  Have any ideas, or can you point me to some place that
>discusses this somewhat intelligently?
>
>Are there reasonable systems that one can put together oneself these
>days?
>Can I repurpose an older PC for this purpose?  Or an RPI4?  What are
>the
>gotchas of going this way?
>
>I want to be able to set up a daily rsync or equivalent so we will lose
>as
>little as possible.  At the moment, I'm not thinking about surviving
>fire
>or disaster.  Maybe I should, but I suspect the costs balloon
>considerably.  I do not want to backup to the cloud because, plain and
>simple, I don't trust it to be fully secure.
>
>Thanks for any and all suggestions.
>
>
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