Re: Server

[Florian Struck <florian.struck@t-online.de>]

On Tuesday 17 September 2002 19:56, Florian Struck wrote:
> Hi all
> Since our in our company we have all our correspondence and developement
> files locally on the workstations and the only access other workers have to
> those files is MSfilesharing (yuck...puke...) i am thinking of setting up a
> debian server primarily used for Fileserver(samba)/databaseserver(mysql)
> and eventually printserver(cups), webserver(apache).
> I even thought of giving fish access to the boss  :-).
>
> Here the specs of the machine im thinking of buying for that (own assembly
> cause a proprietary server (IBM, HP...) is pretty expensive):
>
>
> 1x MBP TYAN TIGER MP/S2460/Dual SKTA/ATX AMD-760MP Chip
>
> 2x AMD ATHLON K7 MP+ 1900 Sockel-A
>
> 1x ADVANCE 2941U BUSINESS KIT scsi controler
>
> 2x IBM UltraStar IC35L018 UW-SCSI 18.2GB 10000u/min
>
> 1x GEH ATX SERVERTOWER 350Watt ZH-911-350
>
> 1x (B) NE2000 100MBit RJ45 PCI
>
> 256 to 512 MB of RAM
>
> + Tape streamer
>
> (Costs all together about a quarter of a equal proprietary server pheeew!)
>
> Now my question is if someone knows a good and possibly easy :-) way of
> setting up mirroring of the disks and setting up a backup job to tape every
> night if you know any URL`s and tutorials (i've never set it up before,
> though i know pretty well how to handle debian machines so it should be
> debian specific info's)
> I would be very pleased.
> Best regards and ... ah ja before i forget ... debian ROCKS!!!
>
> :-)
>
> Thx
> Florian

ps:
And tell me also if you have had experience with that hardware before or if i 
should use different components. 
Thx
Florian