My wife and I live in the big city, and my folks (+2 of my siblings) live about 400 miles away.
We all need a backup solution, so I'm building a pair of servers that will work as a team to give my whole family a solid data integrity plan, plus possibly some media and game server hosting and such.
Overview:
One server at each location.
Servers will accept backups, files, etc from users devices
Each local server will send copies of the local users' backups to the server in the alternate location.
Each server may also be able to act as a media server as well, resources depending
The Hardware:
"Rincewind" - My local server
Random-butt rack case from back when George W. Was in office.
SilverStone 3x 5.25" ODD to 5x 3.5" HDD cage (SST-FS305-12G)
120 GB Kingston boot SSD
5x random 2TB HDDs
(These need replaced before full deployment. Need at least 24TB usable to match the other server)
Fujitsu 9211-8i HBA
Supermicro X9scm-f LGA1155 server motherboard with IPMI
Xeon E3-1240
16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 1600Mhz un-buffered ECC RAM
(Will upgrade to 32GB before full deployment)
"TheLibrarian" - Remote server at the parent's house.
Used Nanoxia Deep Silence 3 (iirc)
8x random 4TB HDDs that came with the case
Crucial boot SSD
Fujitsu 9211-8i HBA
Supermicro X10SSL-F LGA1150 server motherboard with IPMI
Xeon E3-1246 v3
16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 1600Mhz unbuffered ECC RAM
(Will upgrade to 32GB before full deployment)
Status and Next Steps:
Add SSDs for cache once feature is available
Upgrade both servers to 23GB of ram
Continue to test HexOS config before dployment
Wait for Buddy Backup feature to be available for testing.
Continue playing with plex, immich, etc.
Find a dead nuts simple incremental backup solution for Windows
Deploy Servers and set up local machine backups
If anyone has any suggestions for windows backup software I would love to hear them!
Attached photos show my current tech cave/homelab setup
