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Florian Zschocke <edv@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Jolly Roger <jollyroger@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > I'd be a little bit worried about whether it can cool itself
> > sufficiently being closed and mounted on the wall like that, but if
> > cooling turns out to be okay, it seems like a good candidate for a
> > closet server. :)
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> It has definitive no cooling problem. The fans are silent most of the
> time. There is not cpu topcase, keyboard or screen in it.
Ah - then you've certainly taken care of the cooling issue well! :)
> > Here's my home closet DNS, email, web, file, etc. server, BTW:
> >
> > <http://jollyroger.kicks-ass.org/closet-server.jpg>
> >
> Is that a raid? You must be a performance junky.
Yes, but it's a concatenated RAID - four 750 GB drives for a total of 3
terabytes of network storage for our home file server.
> I guess you will not hear any farting at all.
> That is a nice side effect.
My Mac mini never farts! I don't feed it beans! : D
> Is that a tape-backup? I could not find any good informations about
> tape-drives and osx. Can you tell me the brand of the tape and the
> backup software you use.
That's an EMC Exabyte VXA2 Firewire tape drive:
<http://preview.tinyurl.com/oc7lb>
Exabyte VXA drives use next-gen packet technology that results in very
efficient and extremely reliable tape storage. Watch this little
presentation to learn about VXA - I think you'll agree it's way ahead of
the way most tape drives store data:
<http://preview.tinyurl.com/62gckg>
This technology allows you to recover data from tapes that have been
boiled, frozen solid, dropped and even dunked in hot coffee! Other tape
technologies can't do this:
<http://www.exabyte.com/technology/tested/index.cfm>
Even though hard drive space is relatively cheap, I rest easy at night
knowing my data is safely stored to tapes that will last years and years
offsite, should the unthinkable happen. I've had mine for over a year
and a half now, with no issues. I get, on average, ~76GB per tape.
I absolutely *love* this tape drive, and would recommend it to anyone in
the market for a tape drive.
> Former i used a Linkstation NAS with FreeLink for DNS, etc.
> Now I have a OSX-Server 10.4.11 with Open Directory and home-folder
> sync.
I have Mac OS X 10.3 Server, but wasn't impressed with the bugginess of
Apple's administration tools - especially their Open Directory
administration tools. And printer sharing was completely screwed up as
well. Hopefully (for your sake) things have improved since 10.3. : )
I run Mac OS X 10.5 client on my Mac mini. I don't do open directory for
shared homes. I use the built-in BIND, Apache 2, etc. services, and some
open source software as well. It's rock solid!
> I'm still not able to setup a centralized address-book with the LDAP
> and I'm asking my self why it is so difficult.
> Leopards Directory.app seems not work with a 10.4-Server.
Can't help you there, as I haven't bothered with Server since my
disappointing experience with 10.3
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