Travel Technology - Anybody with experience with Mirra Personal Server or anything simliar?
jumpmonger23
Sep 9, 04, 10:44 am
Product in question: http://www.mirra.com/
It's been out for a year or so, basically handles automatic backups for the network, includes versioning, web access to files, etc.
It's about $360 for the 80gb model. My question is, can I put together something similiar to it for cheaper? It runs on the mini-ITX platform, on a core of linux. Is there software out there for linux that does this kind of stuff? I would need the automatic backup, automatic sync, and web access (non-FTP) to files.
I'm thinking the hardware to make it happen can be easily had for probably around $250, but is there software thats similiar?
ScottC
Sep 9, 04, 10:58 am
You can easilly do this on a Linux box for much less than the price of the Mirra.
Samba would be a good place to start. As for auto-sync, any Windows backup application could then backup to the shared drive you make, or you could use a package like Acronis True Image to make a real image of your machine.
One you have a Linux box running there are many more things you could add to it (like Spamassassin, your own mail server etc...)
...and installing, configuring, updating, patching, re-compiling, posting to newsgroups for help, reading thousands of pages of documentation, re-compiling some more, and installing and configuring Windows backup software is almost as quick as just plugging this thing in and turning it on!
cordelli
Sep 9, 04, 11:45 am
compuplus.com has the 80 GB version for $309 (at least they say they do). For that little bit of a price difference over what you get the hardware for, then I'd go for the take it out of the box, plug it in, and it works. Even at the $360 price, there is much to be said for just taking it out and plugging it in.
ScottC
Sep 9, 04, 11:52 am
...and installing, configuring, updating, patching, re-compiling, posting to newsgroups for help, reading thousands of pages of documentation, re-compiling some more, and installing and configuring Windows backup software is almost as quick as just plugging this thing in and turning it on!
You are stuck in 1999. Installing and running something like RedHat is a very simple task. There is no recompiling.
Keep in mind that the Mirra's main problem is that authentication is done through THEIR servers, I've read at least 2 reviews that couldn't be completed because the servers at Mirra were down.
It seems like your knowledge of Linux is as good as your knowledge of Camcorders :D