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| Thread ID: 100193 | 2009-05-29 11:02:00 | Replace WHS with Ubuntu | hueybot3000 (3646) | Press F1 |
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| 778057 | 2009-05-29 12:29:00 | Unless you have a good knowledge of Linux, I know from playing about with it, its a lot harder to set up and have working than WHS with the same functions mainly daily backups, remote access, complete system recovery of work stations. Its more the web server im after than the backups, i dont mind manually backing up what documents need it. and all my web stuff is backed up to an external server, my home server and burnt on dvd so theres not much risk of losing it. other than that the server just hosts media for the tv (it sits next to my tv and doubles as a media center) and helps warm the room up ;) |
hueybot3000 (3646) | ||
| 778058 | 2009-05-29 12:47:00 | I haven't used WHS since the Release Candidate, but I seem to recall a way to tell WHS that you want to "remove" a drive, and it will move all the files stored on it off to the other available disks. Is this correct wainuitech? | somebody (208) | ||
| 778059 | 2009-05-29 12:54:00 | *waits patiently for reply* if i can just hit remove drive on one of the 640s then this would be easy, cos one of the 640's s probaly the best drive to use for the os as they're the fastest | hueybot3000 (3646) | ||
| 778060 | 2009-05-29 13:00:00 | I'd love to tell you but I have no idea... | Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 778061 | 2009-05-29 21:22:00 | Looks like you can't remove the primary drive: usingwindowshomeserver.com Edit: Looks like I was a bit sleepy when I posted last night. Even if you were able to "remove" a drive, due to the proprietary nature of the way WHS stores files, you wouldn't be able to access them in linux anyway. Sorry. |
somebody (208) | ||
| 778062 | 2009-05-29 23:11:00 | hmm, so the only way to do this is copy all the files off?\ anyone got a terabyte i can borrow? :lol: |
hueybot3000 (3646) | ||
| 778063 | 2009-05-29 23:16:00 | hmm, so the only way to do this is copy all the files off?\ anyone got a terabyte i can borrow? :lol: There's another option, which is to keep WHS intact, and run Linux in a virtual machine (using MS Virtual Server 2005) for your web stuff. At one point I was running Zimbra inside a Debian virtual machine, on top of WHS RC1. |
somebody (208) | ||
| 778064 | 2009-05-29 23:26:00 | thats sounds tricky to me. I have another old pIII sitting here that im about to install ubuntu server on and il have a play with it to make sure wrecking my whs setup is worth it | hueybot3000 (3646) | ||
| 778065 | 2009-05-29 23:30:00 | @ wainuitech - yeah ive used whs for while now with no worries but i want to do more with web serving and emails which linux seems much more suited too . a recently installed ubuntu on my laptop and i love it so that also contributed to it . @ agent_24 - that about sums it up it seems . guess il have to go buy a terabyte tomorrow cheers for the help guys If your WHS server is fine then why mess with it . To do the linuxy stuff you want, run vmware server or player - they're both free and leaves you free to install linux systems to your hearts content, and then use the whs functions to back up the vms . I current run a WHS, with a a Windows 7 vm, a lunux server vm (squid, ftp etc) and a dev WHS server . There's also an ubuntu desktop machine and another windows 7 that aren't turned on most of the time . YMMV, but this is a great use of the low computing power used but the WHS . . . . and when Vali comes out (the 64bit version) I'll be able to use all of the 8gb of ram in my chassis - I was originally going to run ESX and run WHS in a vm . |
psycik (12851) | ||
| 778066 | 2009-05-30 00:21:00 | I haven't used WHS since the Release Candidate, but I seem to recall a way to tell WHS that you want to "remove" a drive, and it will move all the files stored on it off to the other available disks . Is this correct wainuitech? Bit late in answering this ( got the kitchen in 100 pieces :eek:) Anyway - thats correct, if you remove a drive you have to either transfer files to another source or have enough space on the remaining drives to allow the data to be moved . Only had to do this once - was a pain moving approx 175 GB of data to another PC . Regarding the Web server side of things - WHS is built from Server 2003, so it is still capable of doing some of the functions . Have a look at This page here (http://www . whsplus . com/) - its one of many places that has plug ins for WHS - Web Server, and even Email (page 8) - may or may not be some help- if you cant find anything, do a google search and there will be a plug in someplace to allow a web server to run, in fact I "think" you can activate it from within WHS-- but dont quote me on that :p Edited: have a look at This article ( . wegotserved . co . uk/2008/03/04/installing-php-for-iis-on-windows-home-server/" target="_blank">www . wegotserved . co . uk) regarding the Web server |
wainuitech (129) | ||
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