Try this: https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=47567.0

What's your protocol set to? TCP or UDP?

@scottalanmiller said in Why is VMWare considered so often:

@marcinozga said in Why is VMWare considered so often:

I use it at home, and yes, it requires agents if running free ESXi.

Which is the only way it "can" work, but Unitrends keeps telling me that agents are not allowed with it.

http://www.unitrends.com/products/enterprise-backup-software/unitrends-free - scroll to the middle of the page.

Protection for free vSphere

Unitrends Free protects virtual machines running on free VMware vSphere (also known as Free ESXi) using agents.

@scottalanmiller said in Why is VMWare considered so often:

@Carnival-Boy said in Why is VMWare considered so often:

I haven't tried Unitrends free with ESXi free. I may give it a go. What exactly are the limitations?

Limitations are that you can only back up eight VMs tops, that it treats them as physical servers and requires you to install an agent onto each one and it can't take an image of them so you lose the Unitrends features like being able to restore to disparate hardware or do automatic recovery and recovery is slower. And there is an ongoing dispute as to whether or not it really offers this. I keep asking and the answer is different each time, I can never get a straight answer. We don't use the free version so never play with it, but I ask "can it do ESXi Free" and they say yes, they I ask if it uses agents and they say "no, you can't use agents." So does it or doesn't it? no one knows.

I use it at home, and yes, it requires agents if running free ESXi.

http://www.geovision.com.tw/english/3_1_sys.asp

Expensive but very reliable. Just don't buy their systems, it's low grade junk. Get dvr software and/or capture card and a nice Dell or HP server.

http://www.shallalist.de/ - lists for SquidGuard and Dansguardian.

I work with a few mechanical engineers, I'd have to say, go for it. Finish that degree. Their job is a lot more interesting than mine.

Quick example, I have a real mortar sitting just a few feet from my desk. It doesn't have a firing pin, but it can be easily added. Guess who designed and build it? Hint: not me.

@anthonyh said in Raid 6 Amateur File Server Setup Questions:

If I understand correctly, you're looking to set up a "NAS" basically, right? If that's the case, I would recommend looking into something like FreeNAS/NAS4Free/OpenFiler. These are Linux distributions geared towards the system being a file server. There are other features built in that you may or may not benefit from, but it may be worth it over running Win10 on the box.

I've had very good success with software RAID under linux. mdadm has served me well. I've done RAID 1, RAID 5*, and RAID 10 and all performed nicely.

*Avoid RAID 5 like the plauge. I had an older PPC G5 Xserve running Debian set up in my garage not doing anything important. Those things could only hold three 3.5 inch drives. If I was able to put a 4th drive in I would've totally gone RAID 10.

FreeNAS and NAS4Free and BSD based. OpenFiler is Linux based, however, it's abandoned project. It hasn't been maintained for years. And even then, it wasn't any good.

@wirestyle22 said in Raid 6 Amateur File Server Setup Questions:

@dafyre said in Raid 6 Amateur File Server Setup Questions:

@geertcourmacher said in Raid 6 Amateur File Server Setup Questions:

@marcinozga

I was thinking to eventually add Plex somewhere down the line. Right now both my media pc and work pc are much more powerful than the server.
The server is based on the AM1 platform, I just switched out the terrible 2650 (2x1.45) for a slighlty better 5150 (4x1.60). Should be ok for x264, yet I don't know about x265 and whatever may come.
Building my Kodi library has taken a while do, I'd assume the same process would wait for me with Plex (with foreign language movies not being scrubbed correctly from databases, etc...)

Plex should be able to read the media in your Kodi library if it is stored as standard MP4 / AVI files, etc. You shouldn't have to re-rip your entire library just to switch from one to the other.

Not to mention that MKV's (as you mentioned they will be) are natively supported by Roku meaning no transcoding. That dramatically reduces the hardware requirements of your server.

MKV is just a container, it's what's inside of it that may need transcoding.

@geertcourmacher said in Raid 6 Amateur File Server Setup Questions:

Certainly at least one familiar face, thanks indeed for linking to my original thread;) I am here due to recommendation from SAM (since I couldn't post without moderation over at spiceworks).
I got a free Win10 via an upgrade from 7, hence no Windows tax (well, you know, having paid for it at some point of course but not now).
Your guess regarding SMB is correct, that is indeed how I have been accessing the files via Kodi so far.

I do not insinst on Windows if there is a good reason for not using it, at all. I know it's not the best OS by far, although for my normal usage it kind of is (Office Suite, few decoding tools, some Games); but that's not on the server, of course. I wouldn't have bought a licence though.

Would you be willing to switch to Plex server instead of Kodi? I haven't used Kodi personally, I have Kodi client box at home with Plex plugin, to access Plex server. Plex opens up a lot more possibilities, both client side and server side. The only possible downside is server side transcoding, stronger CPU is required to handle that smoothly.

I questioned choice of Windows on spiceworks, and his reply was that he was more familiar with it. However, using client OS for server role is just silly - I doubt $800 windows server license is in play here.

https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1555147-raid-as-backup-for-non-critical-media-files-hardware-raid-6-or-zfs-raidz2 - fyi...

You got it mixed up. OS X is free since 10.7 I believe. OS X server is $20. I think it was a bit more expensive in the past, $80 perhaps?

Would encryption work in your case? Each individual mac get's its backups encrypted.

Would Time Capsule work? http://www.apple.com/airport-time-capsule/
I use an older model at home and it just works without any effort. And you can backup multiple macs to one. And it's less than half the price of Mac Mini.

I have no clue either, but they list phones under products.

@JaredBusch said in Mitel to Buy Polycom:

@marcinozga said in Mitel to Buy Polycom:

@DustinB3403 said in Mitel to Buy Polycom:

Bout time.

No point in these companies being separated.

When competition shrinks, consumers end up being screwed.

There is no competition here.

Both companies make phones.

@DustinB3403 said in Mitel to Buy Polycom:

Bout time.

No point in these companies being separated.

When competition shrinks, consumers end up being screwed.

@travisdh1 said in Any providers ever WISP'd?:

@marcinozga said in Any providers ever WISP'd?:

@travisdh1 said in Any providers ever WISP'd?:

@marcinozga That's going to let you provide service, sure. They were paying $5 for the microwave based wireless radios they were using in the mid 2000s. That side of it hasn't really changed that much price wise in a long time.

Where are you getting the backbone connection?

From your local ISP. Once you get into the area of negotiations with major backbone providers you usually get out, that's whole different league.

If you plan to extend the service beyond what the local ISP has built out, then maybe you could do it, but it really limits the market you have available. Think of it this way, you are a potential competitor to the ISP, are they going to give you a good deal?

They don't have to. You just buy the service from them, then re-sell it. We were buying DSL lines at the regular business plan prices. I think overall we had close to 1000 customers in 30k city.