Hey Everyone,
I'm pretty new to linux, I'm a long time mac user, and have been using a Mac Mini as my Plex and wordpress server for some time. Looking at Apples latest generation of Mac Minis, it looks like they no longer are a great option for servers. So here's my setup and wants in a nut shell.
Currently my Mac Mini hosts 3 wordpress sites and is my Plex server. The machine is running OS 10.10.2 Yosemite with Server running, and has 2 Drobo Gen 2 devices attached via Firewire 800.
I use 1 Drobo for my Plex Media, and the other drobo is used for machine backup.
Reading online, Looks like the Drobo 1 and 2 Genereations only show up as 2TB max segments on Linux So I would scrap the Drobo cases and put all the drives internal into the linux server tower.
I want to build a new Linux server that can take over these tasks. So my wants would be, A linux server that can host more than 1 wordpress site, run plex, and would have a RAID setup similar to Drobo, where I can add more drives or replace smaller/failed drives easily enough (doesn't have to be automatic rebuild like the drobo, as long as its possible and not to tricky to do)
what Linux Server OS and other options should I be looking at?
thanks everyone in advance!!
I want my Plex Media Server, Web Server, and Honeypot running on separate partitions. I've formatted them how I want:
SDA7 is my MediaCentre, formatted in XFS, I'd like this mounted as a separate partition and I'd like this to be the location of the Plex Media Server.
SDA8 is my WebServer, formatted in ext4. I'd also like this mounted as a separate partition and be the location of my Web Server (Probs use LAMP and an FTP Download Client).
SDA9 is my Honeypot server, formatted in XFS. Again, I'd like this to be mounted on a separate partition and will be where my Honeypot Server lives.
I'd also like all three servers to be running on VM's to help isolate them.
How do I go about accomplishing this? I'm a Windows native. In Windows I'd have partitioned everything, Created the virtual machines, moved them to their respective partitions, then installed all of the applications.
First things first, how/what do I mount these drives as? Can I just mount them as /mnt/mediaserver and /mnt/webserver etc? Will these mount points then be recognised?
Don't suppose someone can tell me exactly what to write in order to download and install PMS on Arch? I'm about to throw my computer out of the window.
First I tried:
Code:
sudo pacman -S plex-media-server-plexpass
And it cannot find anyting. I've only managed to find Plex Home Theatre using this method.
Next I tried:
Code:
sudo pacman -U https://downloads.plex.tv/plex-media-server/0.9.11.17.986-269b82b/plexmediaserver-0.9.11.17.986-269b82b.x86_64.rpm
Which resulted in an error stating:
Code:
error: failed retrieving file 'plexmediaserver-0.9.11.17.986-269b82b.x86_64.rpm.sig' from downloads.plex.tv : the requested URL returned error: 404
warning: failed to download https://downloads.plex.tv/plex-media-server/0.9.11.17.986-269b82b/plexmediaserver-0.9.11.17.986-269b82b.x86_64.rpm.sig
loading packages...
error: '/var/cache/pacman/pkg/plexmediaserver-0.9.11.17.986-269b82b.x86_64.rpm' : package missing required signature.
I mean, what am I doing wrong? Can someone please tell me exactly what to type in to download and install PMS?
Cheers
Hello Everyone
I have installed Ubuntu Server on a 500 GB drive formatted as EXT4.
Of of my Media, movies, music and pictures are from Windows PC's formatted in NTFS.
As all of the computers connecting to the server will be windows based will NTFS be fine or will I have to reformat them to work. The two media drives are 2 x 2GB Sata drives.
Could you tell me if this setup would work or will I have to reformat and and transfer the files to a new filesystem.
Also as a file server whats the best linux file system to use so it will work with windows PC's in a lan flawlessly.
Thanks for you expertise.
Regards
Hi All
Please could someone assist me with a software raid 5 array issue i am having?
About a week or so ago i was asked to have a look at a mate of mine's Company Server that had crashed after a power failure - no ups and close to 9GB data with no backup.
HP Proliant mini server running OpenMediaVault v1.9. with a software raid5 setup consisting of 4x 3TB Western Digital Hard drives
The 80GB boot drive crashed (hardware malfunction) so i replaced it and installed the server with OpenMediaVault 1.9 as was previously installed. When starting up however i noticed that none of the shares were available and upon closer inspection discovered that the raid to had crashed. I therefore re-assembled the raid but now have no file system nor any partitions on any of the 4x drives.
This is about the extent of my knowledge base when it comes to Linux, and again i don't know that i'd want to risk it with no backup of the data.
I have run fsck /dev/md1, but this reports an error 2 while executing fsck.linux_raid_member not found.
Please i am desperate for some advise!
Thanks
Wayne
I am NEW to Linux. the most experience I have is I like to use Linux boot disks like knoppix and puppy. But I have been commissioned to build an email server for our company. I say build, but there already is a server here woth Redhat rel 9 (shrike) ker 2.4.26 already installed. The problem is, the last IT guy left and nobody knows the login info. I can't log into it. Should I re-install and just delete the partition, or is there a workaround?
Thank you to anyone who can help me....
I am new to Linux. i am sql DBA, but i need to interact with SAP HANA Database which is on Linux. currently, only way, i can log n to server is through Putty. which opens up cmd interface. is there way, i can log on to Linux server and see drives, files like windows.
thanks,
Sukhi
Hello - This is my first interaction with Linux. I recently purchased a Raspberry Pi 2 and am running the full version of Raspbian. I intend to use the Pi as my PLEX media server however I have been unsuccessful in mounting my NAS. I've read a number of guides on how to accomplish this but have been striking out on all accounts. I was hoping someone could help me with what information I should be adding.
NAS - Synology Diskstation DS212j - 192.168.5.195
Linux device - Raspberry Pi 2 - Raspbian - 192.168.5.186
Router - D-Link DIR-655 - 192.168.5.1
I've been accessing the Pi via ssh on my MacBook PRO - 192.168.5.188
Thanks for any assistance you can provide.
I am trying to create a combined media and storage server (NAS) on my new Unbuntu server. I have a 256GB drive as my boot drive and I have two 1TB drives that are empty. I want to use the two 1TB drives as storage for some important data and also for the media that will be played/collected for my XMBC server. I want to be able to access/manipulate these shares/files/data from my Windows computers over my home network.
I have Unbuntu 14.04 and Webmin installed.
I greatly appreciate any assistance. I feel like I am running around in circles on Webmin with this.
Hi Guys & Girls
I'm planning to reuse my old hw for a home server based on debian.
I want to provide my lan with 4 to 5 services like router/dhcp, tftp, pxe/fw, nfs-server, media-server, clonzilla-server, squid-dansguardian and eventually later on a small mta/webmail, horde solution.
How would you set this up?
An all-in-one machine running natively on the hw or separate vms @ kvm?
I would also like to have a stable and good manageable backup architecture, like using a central clonezilla server instance to pick up everything from the other services.
Greetings and thanks a lot
vi
Trying to get my media server up and running again. In order to size my partitions correctly though, I could do with knowing where Plex Stores its "Data Folder" as spoken about in this clip at 7:50.
Any ideas?
I've found this page, but just wanted to confirm that this was the folder talked about in the video.
Any info would be good.
Cheers,
Skat