Moving from WHSv1 to Amahi

[m4rky]

I am thinking of moving my Media server from Microsoft WHS v1 to Amahi.

The WHS is becoming very slow, both in terms of doing stuff on the WHS and with the network shares.

Currently my WHS is used for:
1) Data Storage access via a Network share (Video, Audio, Photos, Documents, Software files etc)
2) PC Backups (Automatic backups of machines to the server)
4) Cloud backups (My most important data, Photos and Documents, as sent to MS Live (Skydrive) for offsite backup)
5) DropBox/file syncing (I also have a bunch of files that I share between my home and work PCs using DropBox)
6) uTorrent (a user can click a torrent link on their PC and it is then downloaded and stored by the server)
7) Media Meta Data Handling ( I have a program that monitors my media files and automatically downloads cover art etc)

I access the server from a variety of PCs at home and at work.
Also my Media Center PC uses the server heavily as that is where I store all my media files.

Finally, I want to be able to add media streaming whcih I belive Amahia can do. I want to access this media from my XBox 360 and my PC at Work.


Is this all possible with Amahi?
I think the Backups (PC, Cloud and DropBox) and the Media Meta Data handling are the bits I am most unsure about how to implement on Amahi?

Also What is the best method of structuring the Hard drives?
I am planning on using a small (80GB) IDE drive for the Amahi installation and the Motherboard RAID (4x WD 1TB SATA) for the data?

Any thoughts?

[radioz]

Welcome!

I'll comment on a couple of your goals, since I'm more familiar with those. Hopefully others will drop in to fill in the pieces.

1. Data storage - A primary feature of an Amahi installation is providing disk shares that are accessible over the network. Amahi uses SMB to provide the shares. It works well.

2. Backups - There are a lot of ways to accomplish this. I personally use CrashPlan. It is available for Linux and Window (at least). You can configure it to perform backups to your server (or other on-site machine) or (for a small fee) to their cloud servers. It works! It saved my butt recently.

3. DropBox - I'm not sure what you are after here? DropBox works great on my devices. I'm not sure how you would like to use it with a server.

Feel free to ask questions.

[m4rky]

3. DropBox - I'm not sure what you are after here? DropBox works great on my devices. I'm not sure how you would like to use it with a server.

Currently on my WHS, I have a DropBox client running that syncs a Dropbox folder on one of my server shares.
My Client PCs can then access this DropBox share as any other share.
Running it on the server just means I don't have to run DropBox client on all of my clients.

I have found out that DropBox is supported on Fedora so I am happy that this will work. https://www.dropbox.com/downloading?os=lnx.

[m4rky]

2. Backups - There are a lot of ways to accomplish this. I personally use CrashPlan. It is available for Linux and Window (at least). You can configure it to perform backups to your server (or other on-site machine) or (for a small fee) to their cloud servers. It works! It saved my butt recently.

Thanks I'll take a look at CrashPlan.

[bigfoot65]

Check out the wiki for dropbox:

http://wiki.amahi.org/index.php/DropBox