You can also install CrashPlan and backup to other local machines, or even a friend's remote one, for free. This means you could even connect the eSata to other machines you have access to and backup to it!

Might be a little late now that you're reinstalling, but in response to not being able to access through putty or not getting a response from ping - In Ubuntu when you attempt to boot after installing new drives and having edited /etc/fstab, if you have monitor hooked up directly to the machine and ...

A wiki containing the same information is now up:

https://wiki.amahi.org/index.php/How_To ... _Ubuntu_12

There is a similar article already on the wiki, I linked to it at the top of the new wiki article.

Would you be willing to add this to the wiki? We would greatly appreciate the contribution.

I've requested an account here so I can add to the wiki. Willing but not able.

Great write up! It should also be useful for anyone planing to upgrade from Amahi 6 to 7 using Fedora on both old and new once Amahi 7 is released. The key is the details of how to transfer your storage pool and "The Holy Trinity" of apps. Yes, I did not really cover this, perhaps a more ...

did you use Ubuntu Desktop or Server? because your download link refers to the desktop version...

I used Ubuntu Desktop. There is little difference between the two. I decided not to temp fate since there is a known issue with Server that Amahi links to on the installation instructions page.

If you plan on using your old Fedora 14 install to look at as you configure your apps and network settings, make sure before you shut it down to disconnect the drives to edit /etc/fstab to not include the pooled drives. In my experience, when Fedora 14 cannot mount the drives in /etc/fstab, rather ...

I've had the problem a few times since building my Amahi server, and every time it ended up being a bad SATA cable. I know it sounds strange and doesn't happen very often, but it's happened three times to me. The first time was especially peculiar, and I did some extensive testing of the cable on al...