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Originally Posted by ozGremlin
Arkay, your a very smart guy, but your ego's out on a trip this time! How are you going to create a server that can provide single automated backup of all network attached machines with single instance storage?
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Quiet easily and exactly the same way MS will do it. A little client code on the attached machines with a mapped network drive to the server is all that is needed. That's why in the above post I suggested to use acronis trueimage in incremental mode as a scheduled task where the image is stored on the server drives. Acronis takes care of the incremental (read delta, versioned backups) and the server stores it.
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How are you going to provide fully automated physical disk redundancy that requires no use of RAID?
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Why do I not want to use raid? LVM under linux has more than enough power to configure any type of redundancy you require. You could use 2 of the drives mirrored for OS level (acronis from above), images, including the server OS itself. Fully redundant.
The rest you could stripe or raid5, whatever rings your bells. All as safe as houses.
In addition lvm supports the easy relocation of data, dynamic disk filesystem resizing, logical and physical disk install/remove etc etc. There's nothing it can't do in terms of adding, replacing or removing storage.
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Also, how much integration can your server provide with an Xbox360 or other extenders?
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Now, that's an interesting point. From what I've read about Home Server it's nothing more than a file server. What exactly needs to integrate into an extender? It has no tuners, it doesn't house guide data etc etc.. At preset you point MCE at a network share for videos, audio and photo's. It wouldn't be any different in this solution. Network accessible folders.. That's it.
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As for running other stuff, it's a windows machine - you'll be able to run almost anything. It's just that the other stuff you run may or may not integrate into the new UI.
Like you, I already have a home server that does nearly everything I want, and what I was really hoping for was a home server that could hold my TV tuners as a backend to my extenders (Much closer to what Myth does!), but the reality is, MS have a new product that does have some cool features, that the others don't have yet!
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I see that statement as incorrect. MS is putting together a "solution" that they can market and sell that is in essence NO DIFFERENT to the basic function of any other computer on the planet. The only real benefit in this solution is the automation of backup of attached systems and the possible automation of adding additional storage. Something that is not difficult to manage with a few scripting skills and a basic computer knowledge.
Cheers,
Arkay.