Monthly Archives: September 2012

Building a new Home File Server (Part3 – Funnies and Foibles)

Posted on September 28, 2012 by Andrew

In this final article on the new home server build I’ll be highlighting some issues and problems I’ve had to deal with, both in hardware and software. You can read the first two articles in Part 1 and Part 2.

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Linux WebDAV mount for box.com

Posted on September 26, 2012 by Andrew

I have around 25GB of photo’s currently sitting on the home server and have been looking at options for backing up online. I have extra paid space in PicasaWeb / Google but the only way to sync pictures to Google … Continue reading →

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Building a new Home File Server (Part 2 – Software)

Posted on September 4, 2012 by Andrew

As mentioned in Part 1, my exisiting server is using Mandriva as the base OS for all the other services I run. The reasons for this are largely historical – it was the first Linux OS I really used as … Continue reading →

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