From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: lm@mcvoy.com (Larry McVoy) Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2017 17:26:27 -0700 Subject: [TUHS] UNIX of choice these days? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20170920002627.GX25650@mcvoy.com> xubuntu everywhere. Laptops and my backup server. BTW, I used to do external USB drives for backups, have zillions of them sitting around unused now. What I do now is I have a backup server in my guest house (w/ gigabit cable to the house, wireless was flakey) and two 4TB drivers as /backup1 and /backup2. I just do rsyncs to backup:/backup1/`hostname` and I've got all the stuff backed up and I haven't filled a 4TB drive yet. It's WAY more efficient than going "oh, I've got a 500GB SSD in this laptop? Let me create a 500GB partition for it." because of: Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 462G 179G 260G 41% / I need to mirror that 4TB to a cloud machine or a work machine so I have offsite backups but it would take a pretty big mess for me to lose both buildings. It's possible, we live in forest fire country. On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 08:12:57PM -0400, Arthur Krewat wrote: > What's your UNIX of choice to do normal "real" things these days? > > Home file server (NAS), business stuff, develop code, whatever. > > Mine is Solaris 11.3 at this point. Oracle has provided almost all the > "normal" utilities that are used by Linux folk, and it runs on Intel > hardware rather well. My main storage is a raidz2 of 24TB and I get > 1.2GB/sec to a bunch of 3TB 512-byte-sector SAS drives. > > It serves my vmware farm with iSCSI at 10gbe using COMSTAR, which also > houses a bunch of Solaris 11 guests that perform various chores. It also > houses some Linux and Windows guests for prototyping/testing. It's also my > Samba server, servicing a few Windows workstations. > > This is all in my home office where I do all my personal/professional work. > > What do you all use for day-to-day development and general playing around > with new stuff? > > AAK -- --- Larry McVoy lm at mcvoy.com http://www.mcvoy.com/lm