Re: [cobalt-users] good idea - Raq 2 as backup-fileserver?

[Glenn Parsons <gparsons@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 01:05 AM 10/26/2003 -0400, you wrote:
> I have a Raq 2 (mips) that I haven't had online for some time, and even 
> then it was just doing one small site with mail.
> My question is, would loading it up with a few big drives and using it as 
> a file server or on line back up a good idea? I was thinking I could have 
> retrospect from my OSX server dump files or just ftp to it or something. 
> Speed doesn't matter to me, as long as it would be done by morning... 
> (10/100 switch)
> What is the largest disk the OS can read? I also have a Qube2 OS I can put 
> on it. If another OS is easy, I may try that. I have noticed a few others 
> have talked about that on this list, (*BSD, some other Linux, etc.) but I 
> didn't find any results on how it went.
>
> If I don't get any comforting replies or comments, I may just may go back 
> to loading it with static sites and using it for what it's designed for. I 
> know it's EOLed. Any problems with the final version from Sun? I'm tired 
> of seeing this thing just sitting not doing anything.
>
> *I don't think this was hashed out recently. I've been dealing with a lot 
> of spam and some of the digests were trashed.
>
> TIA
> George

Hi George,

There are some users here that can provide additional info on the RaQ2, 
more so than myself. Wait for more responses.

I use my RaQ2s for DNS only. I use portsentry, ipfw, chkrootkit and 
logwatch to keep an eye on them and keep the 'bad guys (and gals)' out.

I think the largest drives supported are 32GB and that requires ROM upgrade?

Will you be placing this machine on a LAN behind a firewall? DMZ? Public?

Look into the archives fro documentation for SSH over rsync for your file 
transfer.

How much memory in the machine?

Glenn