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

[jsf]

I know this is not really an answer to the question but I've spun up a
small server on AWS with some storage that I snapshot every 6 hours.. i
installed 'owncloud' on the server and i have an owncloud client on my
laptop and my iphone.. really happy with it.. share the space with the
whole family.  I prepaid for the server on AWS greatly reducing the cost of
running it..

Happy to provide more info on request.

J.

On Mon, Mar 8, 2021 at 8:10 PM bruce.labitt at myfairpoint.net <
bruce.labitt at myfairpoint.net> wrote:

> 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, 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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