newbie questions - before I take the plunge

[callmecheez]

Hi all,

Just a couple of newbie questions that I couldn't find the answers to - looking around:

Does Amahi

- Have a backup system, that is incremental? So I can periodically backup to an external HD, and it will only backup changes to data?

- Allow you to run a webserver with mysql etc?

- Allow you to access files without using VPN? (by typing http://youripaddress/yourfiles/ from outside your LAN)


Many thanks

[moredruid]

- Have a backup system, that is incremental? So I can periodically backup to an external HD, and it will only backup changes to data?
no, not serverside at least. of course you can configure your client to make incremental backups on an Amahi share

- Allow you to run a webserver with mysql etc?
yes, it's already installed, the Amahi interface uses this.
be careful not to damage the Amahi database if you're going to a website.

- Allow you to access files without using VPN? (by typing http://youripaddress/yourfiles/ from outside your LAN)
not in the way you mention, however over SSH you can copy the files with scp to another system.
If you want to share stuff to the outside world on a webserver, that's not (yet) supported by Amahi

[cpg]

- Have a backup system, that is incremental? So I can periodically backup to an external HD, and it will only backup changes to data?

rsnapshot is included in fedora. very nice and fast incremental backup. we don't have an app to manage rsnapshots within amahi. but, hey, it's linux.

I wrote a very quick recipe using rsnapshot.

- Allow you to run a webserver with mysql etc?

Oh yeah. If the app you want is not there, you can create your own web app, stick the code in the root dir for the webapp and the system will do the rest. As moredruid said, if you need to touch the configuration, be careful, that's all.

- Allow you to access files without using VPN? (by typing http://youripaddress/yourfiles/ from outside your LAN)

there are several file navigator apps. configure one, then make it available externally (guide in the wiki). careful with this, of course. apps include ajaxplorer, phpnavigator ...