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[shabba]

Right well at my house, there is my mum my dad and of course myself
We all have very important infomation on your computers/laptops it needs to be backed up seriously! Now my mum only creates word docs and so forth shes a teacher so there is countless reports and crap like that, but my dad is a consultant and makes ridiculously huge powerpoint presentations im talking like 30-100mb sometimes - cos they include videos/sounds and stuff like that. Im kinda in the bad books atm for gettin nicked heh stupid me I no. Now I need some ideas on what I need to create a server type thing, what should I do in this situation, Im probably thinking about a 200gb hd. The server wont be under much strain cos well it will porbably only used every evening at about 10. I also need some help on what sort of software im going to need. All the ideas you can offer would be great

[Dan]

Network the whole house - Plug in, network found, able to connect to the server.

I'd advise if you're capable with networking in linux, you should use centOS, but if not, use M$ server 2003 - not too hard to use/manage networks with

(<3 my server... 768mb of dell server RAM, etc... runs like a beauty)

[shabba]

Yes - I made myself out to be a complete idiot. Why would I use CentOS when there is Redhat

Its kinda not what I was after I no all that sorta stuff, im just after the software like to make my windows comp updated every evening at 10 so all the files in a particular folder are copied and sent to my server guess ill just knock up a program to do it

[Apilot]

honestly i cant help you there but i suggest you get one bigger than 200gb might cost more but it will be worth it, my uncle does this server stuff.

[shabba]

Erm no need its just for my home not a proper server its just a fileserver for my house. a backup server.