sesstreets
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Currently my school uses a Lion mac mini server to host files for 14 laptop carts with each cart having 32 laptops in it. The server is horrendous, over heats constantly, uses ridiculously locked down software and in general is a pain in the ass to use. I have another mac mini server that is used as a test bed so I would like to install free nas on it so that I don't have to deal with apples BS anymore. Here's what the backup question resolves around:
Each laptop connects to a SMB share with the same name as its cart. So laptop # 1 in cart 1500 uses a start-up script to ensure its connected to the cart1500 share using the generic username student which has read and write access to the cart1500 folder. The biggest issue is that each laptop on that specific cart can see all of the data relevant to the cart1500 folder.
Many times a day I will get a call saying that a student had deleted all of the data in a folder. My job is then to comb through the list of time machine backups looking for the carts folder so that I can restore it. The process is slow and buggy due to apples horrible implementation of cron jobs and permissions.
I don't think there is a way to stop deletion while allowing modify in either posix or ACL permissions so I would like to use a backup script similar to time machine that makes a daily backups to the second hard drive on the mini server. Can I do this with freeNAS?
The other issue that resolves around auditing, is that I would like to catch the wanna-be hackers in the act with evidence. Can freeNAS use the audit modules in samba and if so how do I configure them?
ANY help is appreciated =)
Each laptop connects to a SMB share with the same name as its cart. So laptop # 1 in cart 1500 uses a start-up script to ensure its connected to the cart1500 share using the generic username student which has read and write access to the cart1500 folder. The biggest issue is that each laptop on that specific cart can see all of the data relevant to the cart1500 folder.
Many times a day I will get a call saying that a student had deleted all of the data in a folder. My job is then to comb through the list of time machine backups looking for the carts folder so that I can restore it. The process is slow and buggy due to apples horrible implementation of cron jobs and permissions.
I don't think there is a way to stop deletion while allowing modify in either posix or ACL permissions so I would like to use a backup script similar to time machine that makes a daily backups to the second hard drive on the mini server. Can I do this with freeNAS?
The other issue that resolves around auditing, is that I would like to catch the wanna-be hackers in the act with evidence. Can freeNAS use the audit modules in samba and if so how do I configure them?
ANY help is appreciated =)
