This is mainly a “note to self”, but why don’t post it? Maybe it will help some others….
As I now have a new client and everything is save and working ok, it’s time to put the old hardware away. But today I had the idea of combining the old server hardware (which will be reinstalled anyway) and some of the old client’s hardware into a brand new server…. let’s see what I can make out of this. An LVM might be an idea, as I will have two harddisk-drives then…
Also, there was a nice article in this week’s c’t about automatically waking up a Linux system – something that I will try to implement on my new server. Finally, I will install vmware on the server instead of the client – because most of the time, my server is doing nothing (besides, well, serving some files), so why not use it’s computing power for this? Let’s see how far this will advance…
What else shall the server do besides what it is already doing? Well, some remote X can come in handy from time to time – so despite other thoughts initially, I will probably put X onto it (but no Gnome or KDE, just something like some simple window manager or so…. Also, I will probably add NFS in addition to Samba (why using Samba when sharing from Linux to Linux?); the Backup mechanism needs some serious rethinking (because I almost do not use it nowadays), including making the USB harddrive accessible on the LAN. One possibility is Amanda; there is an entry on the Gentoo Wiki dedicated to Backup programs and strategies. Finally, I want an Apache Tomcat server to be up and running on the box; also, some kind of VPN would be nice…
I will start with the whole “server rebuilding project” in mid-summer, I assume.
