[SATLUG] Kurobox

[Sean Carolan]

On 5/23/07, Ernest de Leon <dryicezero at gmail.com> wrote:
> Speaking of the NSLU2, a friend of mine had one and he said that he didn't
> like it.  He went with a custom built NAS instead.  I don't have heavy
> network usage at home, I just want to use it for backups.  How well has it
> worked for you in that area?

I love my slug - here's a list of what I use it for:

*  ddclient to keep my dyndns hostname up to date
*  Serve videos and music to Xbox running XBMC
*  LAN backup server for laptops
*  iTunes/daap server for sharing music to itunes or rhythmbox
*  Backs up my web server and online photo gallery via rsync
*  SSH tunneling
*  rtorrent for downloading bittorrent files

All this with only 32mb of memory, in a box that fits in your palm and
only pulls around 10-15W of electricity.  Mine is running Debian etch.
 You can't beat it for the $50-70 price tag.

I have a 300gb hard drive hooked up to it, and another identical
backup drive.  I had hoped to use rsync to back up one drive to the
other regularly but the little slug seems not to be able to do huge
rsync jobs due to the small amount of memory.  Is there any easy way
to break a large rsync into say 1 gig or 500 mb chunks?

It would probably be fine for your backup needs, worst come to worst
you can sell it on ebay and are only out $20 or so.