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h1. brutus Server Setup

h2. History

Who needs "the cloud", I've got gigabit fiber running directly to my house! I've been running a local file server for 16ish years.

|=. *Date* |=. *Note* |

| *9/11/2024* | Swtiched to Dynu for dynamic DNS and used Let'sEncrypt for a proper SSL/TLS cert.|

| *9/8/2024* | Retired @phalanx@ and replaced it with @brutus@ (hardware details in the section below).|

| *5/27/2022* | Wipe and install Ubuntu 22.04|

| *7/8/2019* | Change Dynamic DNS provider to http://freedns.afraid.org. |

| *1/9/2019* | Added 10G Ethernet interface. |

| *1/4/2019* | Replaced mobo/proc/RAM with parts salvaged from work. Proc i7-4790 (Haswell); RAM 32GB DDR3L.|

| *6/2/2018* | Upgraded boot drive to 500 GB SSD. Also installed Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. |

| *1/16/2017*| Upgraded server added 2 x 3 TB additional HDDs (via PCIe SATA expansion card), new power supply, and new (slightly used) case.  After adding the new disks to the RAID and growing the file system, total usable storage on the array is now 11.18 TB.|

| *11/18/2016* |Updated (wipe and reinstall) to Ubuntu Server 16.04.1 LTS|

| *9/2015* | I recently decided to pay for dynamic DNS service from "Dyn":http://dyn.com.  The cost was $30 (after 25% coupon) for a year w/ 30 hostnames. Server is now reachable at https://baranovich.homelinux.org:3268|

| *8/2014* | Both of the my original 3TB HDDs started acting funny and died within a week of each other after about 1.8 years of continuous use.  Fortunately I reacted immediately and I was able to back up all of my data onto other disks. Although I regularly back up all of my critical data I decided that I really don't want to have to deal with losing any of my data.  I promptly purchased another HDD and a HW RAID card (an LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-8i) and set out to build a RAID 5 array.  I quickly ran into problems with the RAID card.  I was only able to get the computer to boot with it installed once.  During that boot I upgraded the card's firmware with the hope that it would fix all my issues, but it did not and I was never able to fully boot with the card installed again.  After a little googling I discovered someone in my same position who claimed to have called LSI tech support and was told that LSI cards are "not compatible with newer motherboards".  The guy didn't elaborate as to what that meant but I assume it means LSI cards don't work in UEFI motherboards. I was disappointed but I started reading about software raid (device mapper raid) and decided that it should work perfectly for my little fileserver.  I also decided that btrfs is not really ready for prime time and I should use some other file system.|

| *??/2008* | Created first version of phalanx with Dell desktop that was Kab's college computer.|

h2. Hardware Details