Re: file server

2023-07-24 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 12 Jul 2023 16:57:34 + "Andrew M.A. Cater" wrote: ... > Something like a second hand HP tower server - say a Z440 - and 7 x 18TB > drives I'm just curious, since I have a Z440 and it's a workstation, not a server, and I'm pretty sure it doesn't have 7 drive bays: did you perhaps me

Re: file server

2023-07-15 Thread ce
On 7/12/23 06:09, Cindy Sue Causey wrote: and then merge them into one volume? mergerfs

Re: file server

2023-07-14 Thread Stuart Barkley
On July 12, 2023 10:09:13 AM UTC, Cindy Sue Causey wrote: >On 7/12/23, Stanislav Vlasov wrote: >> >> If your hardware supports 6 hard drives (5*18T + your 2T), you can use >> lvm for merging 5 of them to one volume, or create raid0 by mdadm. >> Some risks with plain disk merging - if one of

Re: file server

2023-07-12 Thread David Christensen
On 7/12/23 02:44, lina wrote: Dear all, My computer only has 2 TB data storage capacity, I want to have 100 TB capacity to store/analyze data. I am thinking of adding 5 hard drives, each is 18TB, and then merge them into one volume? or get a file server? What is the best option for me, and wha

Re: file server

2023-07-12 Thread tomas
On Wed, Jul 12, 2023 at 11:00:30AM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > On Wed, Jul 12, 2023 at 6:07 AM jeremy ardley wrote: > > > > On 12/7/23 17:44, lina wrote: > > > My computer only has 2 TB data storage capacity, > > > > > > I want to have 100 TB capacity to store/analyze data. > > > > On this scal

Re: file server

2023-07-12 Thread debian-user
lina wrote: > I need to extract the data for downstream analysis. after that, these > data can be removed. Do you need all the data present at the same time to extract it? Obviously you won't need as much storage if you can analyse/extract it in sections. > On Wed, Jul 12, 2023 at 2:24 PM Jerome

Re: file server

2023-07-12 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Wed, Jul 12, 2023 at 01:48:28PM +0200, lina wrote: > Currently I do not have a plan to keep the data, once the data finished > analyzing, I can just remove it. > > On Wed, Jul 12, 2023 at 12:26 PM Dan Ritter wrote: > > > lina wrote: > > > Dear all, > > > > > > My computer only has 2 TB data s

Re: file server

2023-07-12 Thread Dan Ritter
lina wrote: > Currently I do not have a plan to keep the data, once the data finished > analyzing, I can just remove it. OK. If your computer has sufficient physical space and SATA interfaces, you can install 5 x 18TB or 5 x 20TB or however many disks that you like, and use mdadm in linear or s

Re: file server

2023-07-12 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Wed, Jul 12, 2023 at 6:07 AM jeremy ardley wrote: > > On 12/7/23 17:44, lina wrote: > > My computer only has 2 TB data storage capacity, > > > > I want to have 100 TB capacity to store/analyze data. > > On this scale it's almost certainly easier and cheaper to use a cloud > provider who can pro

Re: file server

2023-07-12 Thread lina
I need to extract the data for downstream analysis. after that, these data can be removed. On Wed, Jul 12, 2023 at 2:24 PM Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Hello, > > On 12/07/2023 13:48, lina wrote: > > Currently I do not have a plan to keep the data, once the data finished > analyzing, I can just remove

Re: file server

2023-07-12 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello, On 12/07/2023 13:48, lina wrote: Currently I do not have a plan to keep the data, once the data finished analyzing, I can just remove it. Do you want a `scratch space` [1] ? What can be also interesting to know is whether you can compress your data. Best wishes, Jerome [1] https://en

Re: file server

2023-07-12 Thread gene heskett
On 7/12/23 06:52, Dan Purgert wrote: On Jul 12, 2023, gene heskett wrote: On 7/12/23 06:01, Stanislav Vlasov wrote: ср, 12 июл. 2023 г. в 14:45, lina : [...] 2 (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAIDhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID) Unfortunately, I'm getting wikipedia's fancy 403 at that li

Re: file server

2023-07-12 Thread lina
Currently I do not have a plan to keep the data, once the data finished analyzing, I can just remove it. On Wed, Jul 12, 2023 at 12:26 PM Dan Ritter wrote: > lina wrote: > > Dear all, > > > > My computer only has 2 TB data storage capacity, > > > > I want to have 100 TB capacity to store/analyze

Re: file server

2023-07-12 Thread Dan Purgert
On Jul 12, 2023, gene heskett wrote: > On 7/12/23 06:01, Stanislav Vlasov wrote: > > ср, 12 июл. 2023 г. в 14:45, lina : > > [...] > > 2 (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAIDhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID) > Unfortunately, I'm getting wikipedia's fancy 403 at that link? Seems it was doubled-

Re: file server

2023-07-12 Thread Carl Fink
On 7/12/23 06:49, gene heskett wrote: On 7/12/23 06:01, Stanislav Vlasov wrote: ср, 12 июл. 2023 г. в 14:45, lina : I want to have 100 TB capacity to store/analyze data. I am thinking of adding 5 hard drives, each is 18TB, Some primitive calcs: 5*18T = 90T, not 100T. Maybe you need 6 hdd?

Re: file server

2023-07-12 Thread gene heskett
On 7/12/23 06:01, Stanislav Vlasov wrote: ср, 12 июл. 2023 г. в 14:45, lina : I want to have 100 TB capacity to store/analyze data. I am thinking of adding 5 hard drives, each is 18TB, Some primitive calcs: 5*18T = 90T, not 100T. Maybe you need 6 hdd? and then merge them into one volume? I

Re: file server

2023-07-12 Thread Dan Ritter
lina wrote: > Dear all, > > My computer only has 2 TB data storage capacity, > > I want to have 100 TB capacity to store/analyze data. > > I am thinking of adding 5 hard drives, each is 18TB, and then merge them > into one volume? > or get a file server? > What is the best option for me, and wh

Re: file server

2023-07-12 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 7/12/23, Stanislav Vlasov wrote: > ср, 12 июл. 2023 г. в 14:45, lina : >> I want to have 100 TB capacity to store/analyze data. >> I am thinking of adding 5 hard drives, each is 18TB, > > Some primitive calcs: 5*18T = 90T, not 100T. Maybe you need 6 hdd? > >> and then merge them into one volume

Re: file server

2023-07-12 Thread jeremy ardley
On 12/7/23 17:44, lina wrote: My computer only has 2 TB data storage capacity, I want to have 100 TB capacity to store/analyze data. On this scale it's almost certainly easier and cheaper to use a cloud provider who can provide a good CPU and a large attached storage. I use AWS as a prov

Re: file server

2023-07-12 Thread Stanislav Vlasov
ср, 12 июл. 2023 г. в 14:45, lina : > I want to have 100 TB capacity to store/analyze data. > I am thinking of adding 5 hard drives, each is 18TB, Some primitive calcs: 5*18T = 90T, not 100T. Maybe you need 6 hdd? > and then merge them into one volume? If your hardware supports 6 hard drives (5*

Re: File server without the Xserver

2011-03-12 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 21:50 Sat 12 Mar, Leonardo Ruoso (leonardo.ru...@gmail.com) wrote: > Is it all about running gedit? > > Although I can't imagine why you can't use vim, emacs or even nano from ssh > it's pretty possible to download a copy of the file, edit it with your > preferred editor and upload it back to

Re: File server without the Xserver

2011-03-12 Thread Jari Fredriksson
On 12.3.2011 23:50, Leonardo Ruoso wrote: > Is it all about running gedit? > > Although I can't imagine why you can't use vim, emacs or even nano from > ssh it's pretty possible to download a copy of the file, edit it with > your preferred editor and upload it back to the server. > I'm not the

Re: File server without the Xserver

2011-03-12 Thread Leonardo Ruoso
Is it all about running gedit? Although I can't imagine why you can't use vim, emacs or even nano from ssh it's pretty possible to download a copy of the file, edit it with your preferred editor and upload it back to the server. Atenciosamente, Leonardo Ruoso (CE1921JP) . . . . . . . . . . . .

Re: File server without the Xserver

2011-03-12 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2011-03-12, Jari Fredriksson wrote: > > On 12.3.2011 2:57, Dan wrote: >> On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 7:14 PM, Dr. Ed Morbius = > wrote: >>> on 18:37 Fri 11 Mar, Dan (ganc...@gmail.com) wrote: On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 6:09 PM, Dr. Ed Morbius m>wrote: >>> xauth is required by xbase-clients. It

Re: File server without the Xserver

2011-03-12 Thread Jari Fredriksson
On 12.3.2011 2:57, Dan wrote: > On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 7:14 PM, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: >> on 18:37 Fri 11 Mar, Dan (ganc...@gmail.com) wrote: >>> On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 6:09 PM, Dr. Ed Morbius >>> wrote: >> xauth is required by xbase-clients. It'll get installed with that. > > Should I then in

Re: File server without the Xserver

2011-03-12 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Andrei Popescu put forth on 3/12/2011 4:10 AM: > On Vi, 11 mar 11, 19:42:47, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> If you want to make sure you get all the GUI tools you need without >> chasing them down individually after doing a text only install, simply >> do a standard desktop install but then set the defaul

Re: File server without the Xserver

2011-03-12 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Vi, 11 mar 11, 19:42:47, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > If you want to make sure you get all the GUI tools you need without > chasing them down individually after doing a text only install, simply > do a standard desktop install but then set the default runlevel to 2. 2 *is* the default runlevel in Deb

Re: File server without the Xserver

2011-03-11 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Dan put forth on 3/11/2011 2:41 PM: > Hi, > > I am going to prepare a File Server with Debian in a ProLiant and I think > that I will not install the X-Server. But I would like to run remotely some > gnome X programs with ssh. Which package should I install to do this, only > xauth or I also need

Re: File server without the Xserver

2011-03-11 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 16:07 Fri 11 Mar, shawn wilson (ag4ve...@gmail.com) wrote: > On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 3:41 PM, Dan wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I am going to prepare a File Server with Debian in a ProLiant and I think > > that I will not install the X-Server. But I would like to run remotely some > > gnome X progr

Re: File server without the Xserver

2011-03-11 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 19:57 Fri 11 Mar, Dan (ganc...@gmail.com) wrote: > On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 7:14 PM, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > > on 18:37 Fri 11 Mar, Dan (ganc...@gmail.com) wrote: > >> On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 6:09 PM, Dr. Ed Morbius > >> wrote: > > xauth is required by xbase-clients.  It'll get installed with t

Re: File server without the Xserver

2011-03-11 Thread Dan
On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 7:14 PM, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > on 18:37 Fri 11 Mar, Dan (ganc...@gmail.com) wrote: >> On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 6:09 PM, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > xauth is required by xbase-clients.  It'll get installed with that. Should I then install xbase-clients? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: File server without the Xserver

2011-03-11 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 18:37 Fri 11 Mar, Dan (ganc...@gmail.com) wrote: > On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 6:09 PM, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > > > on 15:41 Fri 11 Mar, Dan (ganc...@gmail.com) wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I am going to prepare a File Server with Debian in a ProLiant and I think > > > that I will not install the X

Re: File server without the Xserver

2011-03-11 Thread Dan
On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 6:09 PM, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > on 15:41 Fri 11 Mar, Dan (ganc...@gmail.com) wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am going to prepare a File Server with Debian in a ProLiant and I think > > that I will not install the X-Server. But I would like to run remotely > some > > gnome X progr

Re: File server without the Xserver

2011-03-11 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 15:41 Fri 11 Mar, Dan (ganc...@gmail.com) wrote: > Hi, > > I am going to prepare a File Server with Debian in a ProLiant and I think > that I will not install the X-Server. But I would like to run remotely some > gnome X programs with ssh. Which package should I install to do this, only > xaut

Re: File server without the Xserver

2011-03-11 Thread Erwan David
On 11/03/11 22:07, shawn wilson wrote: > if you want to run x windows apps, you need the x server (i think that's > just xserver-common). and you'll want to look at these in ssh_config: >ForwardX11 no >ForwardX11Trusted yes No you do not need the X server for running X applications remote

Re: File server without the Xserver

2011-03-11 Thread shawn wilson
On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 3:41 PM, Dan wrote: > Hi, > > I am going to prepare a File Server with Debian in a ProLiant and I think > that I will not install the X-Server. But I would like to run remotely some > gnome X programs with ssh. Which package should I install to do this, only > xauth or I

Re: File Server

2009-04-23 Thread Chris Davies
Lynn Kilroy wrote: > My goal is to use the linux machine as a rather expensive external > hard disk drive. You might want to consider OpenNAS (?), or one of the SLUGs that run a Linux distribution. But that's not Debian so maybe I shouldn't suggest it ;-) Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to deb

Re: File Server

2009-04-22 Thread Steven Demetrius
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lynn Kilroy wrote: > I imagine this question has been answered lots of times, but I'll be > dumb and ask it again. > > I am setting up a Debian computer and hope to use it primarily as a file > server. This is for a network, and all the computers n

Re: File Server

2009-04-22 Thread Jan Muszynski
Lynn Kilroy wrote: > I imagine this question has been answered lots of times, but I'll be > dumb and ask it again. > > I am setting up a Debian computer and hope to use it primarily as a file > server. This is for a network, and all the computers network together > through an ISDN router modem

Re: file server admin.

2007-12-07 Thread David
Michelle Konzack wrote: Am 2007-12-04 12:02:44, schrieb David: Greetings all. I'm about to attempt configuring my first ever file server. It's based on an old HP E200 with three equally old SATA drives. I've done package searches on package descriptions and got a plethora of package names tha

Re: file server admin.

2007-12-07 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2007-12-04 12:02:44, schrieb David: > Greetings all. > > I'm about to attempt configuring my first ever file server. > It's based on an old HP E200 with three equally old SATA drives. > > I've done package searches on package descriptions and got a plethora of > package names that may or may

Re: file server recommendations?

2003-03-17 Thread ScruLoose
On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 02:09:58PM -0800, Jack Pistachio wrote: > I'd suggest ssh, sftp, and scp, which all come in the > debian ssh package. To use these with windows, I'd suggest > putty sftp client for windows. This seems th easiest way > to do it. This, of course, requires that your friends

Re: file server recommendations?

2003-03-16 Thread Michael Heironimus
On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 02:59:35PM -0500, Kevin Coyner wrote: > What's a good, and hopefully open source & free, program that can act as > a SSH server on a Windows box? I do most of my work in Linux/Debian, > but there's one offsite webserver I have to take care of that's Win2K. > Presently I ftp

Re: file server recommendations?

2003-03-16 Thread Hanasaki JiJi
Try the free cygwin download: http://www..cygwin.com/ Kevin Coyner wrote: On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 05:12:09PM +, Shri Shrikumar wrote.. On Sat, 2003-03-15 at 22:09, Jack Pistachio wrote: I'd suggest ssh, sftp, and scp, which all come in the debian ssh package. To use these with windows,

Re: file server recommendations?

2003-03-16 Thread Kevin Coyner
On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 05:12:09PM +, Shri Shrikumar wrote.. > On Sat, 2003-03-15 at 22:09, Jack Pistachio wrote: > > I'd suggest ssh, sftp, and scp, which all come in the > > debian ssh package. To use these with windows, I'd suggest > > putty sftp client for windows. This seems th ea

Re: file server recommendations?

2003-03-16 Thread Shri Shrikumar
On Sat, 2003-03-15 at 22:09, Jack Pistachio wrote: > I'd suggest ssh, sftp, and scp, which all come in the > debian ssh package. To use these with windows, I'd suggest > putty sftp client for windows. This seems th easiest way > to do it. This, of course, requires that your friends are > users o

Re: file server recommendations?

2003-03-15 Thread Jack Pistachio
I'd suggest ssh, sftp, and scp, which all come in the debian ssh package. To use these with windows, I'd suggest putty sftp client for windows. This seems th easiest way to do it. This, of course, requires that your friends are users on your system. -jackp --- ScruLoose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wro

Re: file server recommendations?

2003-03-14 Thread nate
ScruLoose said: > Hi all, > > I'm interested in making a few files available to friends of > mine, and in having an upload directory for them to give me stuff, too. > I'm wondering what's the best tool for this job. > The first thing that comes to mind is FTP, but I'm not sure it's the right

Re: file server recommendations?

2003-03-14 Thread Vineet Kumar
* ScruLoose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20030314 23:09 PST]: > Hi all, > > I'm interested in making a few files available to friends of > mine, and in having an upload directory for them to give me stuff, too. > I'm wondering what's the best tool for this job. > > * I'll only be talking about a ve