gizmodo.com — Why, in the midst of a major Windows Home Server push, would HP introduce a little Linux-based NAS at half the price? And why would HP make the $300 Media Vault mv2120 so full featured and easy that its $600-and-up MediaSmart Servers look
Mar 29, 2008 View in Crawl 4
maverickalexMar 30, 2008
Don't you know how to format a drive? Hard drives are not made with a file system that you can't change.
mossblaserMar 30, 2008
"Can the Linux solution completely and automatically restore a dead Windows computer back to any backup point, over the network?"Don't know, I'm sure its possible"Does it automatically recognize and backup only one version of every duplicate file across all client computers (saving significant storage space)?"Come on what backup system doesn't use incremental backups?"Can you configure it to bring clients out of standby to initiate nightly backups?"Linux supports wake on lan so it can wake from cold, hibernate and any other low power state that can be woken by pressing the power button"What about the remote desktop portal to access client machines remotely?"Install VNC and setup some basic port forwarding"Is there functionality for easily adding plugins?"Its linux - everything is essentially a plugin!And in response to you're last comment I am doubting you've even looked at a feature list for a linux home-server style distro
tenoqMar 31, 2008
Did you RTFA? It doesn't do backups anything like WHS. It backs-up files - not the entire OS. And it doesn't do it automatically every night for up to 10 clients, and it doesn't have single-instance storage and it doesn't have a nifty software RAID that can use any sized HDDs in any configuration and still duplicate your data. Please come back when you actually understand what WHS does. Oh, and I've never come across the corruption bug in WHS. I set them up for a living. It isn't that common.
jorophoseApr 1, 2008
>- single instance storageMind explaining this?>- storage 'pool' - no HW RAID requiredZFS but it's not ideal if you plan to add in drives later.>- full incremental imaging backup and restore function, not just file backupMondoRescue's team should have an automagic tool by now that turns your system into an ISO periodically.>- it's a PC with a full OS - ie, it can run any application you like (uTorrent, for example, given it's always on anyway)FluxTorrent is a torrent server daemon for linux. I have no idea what copy of linux is running on HP's media vault and/or if it's hackable. Hopefully we can change the OS...
secrityApr 2, 2008
I didn't realize that it had web configuration available. .