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Simple OS to be a storage target for Acronis

heymrdj

heymrdj

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Hey everyone, I've got my parent's place set up with an old dell that comes on via the BIOS at 3:55AM with an Acronis Home backup on two of their computers that has the Dell's shared hard drive as their target. At 6AM the task scheduler triggers a shutdown and it's done. It does this 7 days a week. What I'm wondering is there a simpler OS to replace the Dell's Windows XP Home with? XP likes to update and all that and it seems to have gone and screwed up its boot, probably due to a forced shutdown while it was updating. I don't really see the need for such a bloated heavy OS just to hold to .tib files that are updated everyday. WHS doesn't seem to be friendly to being turned on and off every day like that so I don't really want to run that either. Any ideas on what OS? They don't need to know how to run it, it's practically headless after setup and i take care of any issues on it. I was thinking Debian, but then we'd have filesystem issues for Windows to write the .tib files to it wouldn't we?

Open to ideas! 😀
 
If you're only using it for storage, what about something like FreeNAS?

I'm not sure about auto-shutdown with FreeNAS, I've never used it.
 
I'm liking the ideas thus far, but it doesn't seem that any of the solutions would be happy with Acronis Home backing up to them. I'll have to look again, but I'm pretty sure that acronis home is very dumb and just wants a directory with a fat or ntfs format (has to support files over 4GB cause i don't like splitting) so that's why I'm wondering if any of these solutions will actually work.
 
heymrdj said:
I'm liking the ideas thus far, but it doesn't seem that any of the solutions would be happy with Acronis Home backing up to them. I'll have to look again, but I'm pretty sure that acronis home is very dumb and just wants a directory with a fat or ntfs format (has to support files over 4GB cause i don't like splitting) so that's why I'm wondering if any of these solutions will actually work.
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As long as it supports writing the images to SMB/CIFS it doesn't matter what filesystem is involved, that's all abstracted behind the network filesystem.
 
VirtualLarry said:
Why not? It can make it much easier to deal with the backup files if you split/span them. I do that with Ghost, so I can backup the image backup file parts to either a CD or a DVD.
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But I have no purpose for that. I'm not backing up 100GB of data to DVD's, that's a waste of $$$. Secondly I've had issues in the past with future versions of software not being able to properly interface with a multi-archive save. One file is just simpler.


I have FreeNAS installing in VMWare right now for some tests.
 
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