ZipZerver

• File server for small office or small organization.
• RAID (Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks) used to protect against disk failure -- RAID-5-Checksum can keep operating after the failure of any one disk in a Raid-Group, RAID-6 can keep operating after the failure of any two disks, RAID-10 can be configured to keep operating after any disk or after any two disk failures, and RAID-1-Mirror can be used to any desired level of redundancy.
• RAID used to create large file-system space from multiple disks, 16 TB or larger.
• Software RAID allows use of a wide range of disks (compare with "hardware" RAID in which the firmware is on a controller board, and can only operate with the disks directly connected to that controller board).
• Journal-File-System (EXT3 and EXT4) used for quick recovery from unexpected shutdown (generally minutes, not hours for a full File-System Check).
• SmartMirror uses rsync to create and efficiently maintain back-up files between two or more systems, on schedule of hourly, daily, weekly, or monthly, using whatever bandwidth is available. SmartMirror communication between systems may be encrypted.
• SmartMirror scheduling, job linking, and options can be used to automatically make daily, weekly or monthly full-back-up sets, or sets of changed files.
• As NAS-Network-Attached-Storage, sharing data between users is easy.
• With multi communication protocols, sharing data between users accessing with Windows, NFS (for Unix/Linux systems), web-browsers, and/or FTP is easy.
• Using Linux for the kernel and many FOSS Free and Open Source Software projects, there are no per-seat license fees.
• System structure is intended to allow current versions of each of these projects.
• System structure is intended to use a wide-range of hardware, from one to four Intel/AMD CPU, either 32-bit or 64-bit, up to 4 GB of memory for 32-bit CPU, more for 64-bit, from one to eight network connections, with a wide range of disks using SATA, USB, SCSI, and/or IDE.
• The Zerver part of this system is focused on these limited goals, so that set-up and operation will be simple.
• For operation,
  • e-mail alerts are used for system conditions
  • SNMP can be used for performance monitoring
  • NTP can be used to keep time synchronization
  • program ZerverView can be used for some control operations
  • SSH-Secure-Shell can be used for specialized maintenance tasks
• Firmware, configuration, and long-term log files are on a small flash Config-Device, ZerverModule™. All disk space is available for data storage.

To contact us:

polycosmic.net

polycosmic.info /at/ gmail
or
cbertsch /at/ cox.net

Phoenix AZ
US