In message , Adrian C
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Got Debian on me HP Microserver. Barefoot CLI, no GUI. Run headless.

My backup for a Windows system here is trundling along nicely using a
small HP server running CentOS, setup access via PuTTY, with 2 big
drives taking what SyncToy fires at them from various machines, each on
alternate days.

There are some snags, backing up open files being one of them. I gave up
on Ubuntu, but I had a lot of help (from an Ubuntu expert!) to get
CentOS running as I wanted.

Part of the problem was that I wanted one drive to be NTFS rather than
EXT4, because I had the vague idea of being able to drop it into a
Windows PC if all else failed.

I didn't like the NAS I had, and sold it, and Windows Home Server was a
disaster on the HP machine, but I'm very much a simple amateur.
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Bill

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In message , Adrian C
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Got Debian on me HP Microserver. Barefoot CLI, no GUI. Run headless.

My backup for a Windows system here is trundling along nicely using a
small HP server running CentOS, setup access via PuTTY, with 2 big drives
taking what SyncToy fires at them from various machines, each on alternate
days.

There are some snags, backing up open files being one of them. I gave up
on Ubuntu, but I had a lot of help (from an Ubuntu expert!) to get CentOS
running as I wanted.

Part of the problem was that I wanted one drive to be NTFS rather than
EXT4, because I had the vague idea of being able to drop it into a Windows
PC if all else failed.

I didn't like the NAS I had, and sold it, and Windows Home Server was a
disaster on the HP machine,

but I'm very much a simple amateur.

I think you'd be very surprised.