I can build a centos 6 disc that should do that. you can look into a dedicated NAS box, which usually has its own prop OS, or freenas/nas-lite. <br><br>On building an OS, you will want to setup selinux, aide, anti-virus, etc. and lock down the permissions. My scripts that I have for that, can help, but if you go with something newer like fedora/ubuntu builds, I am not sure they will. Setup PAM and other services to lock things down. Actually one of my NAS systems here is a debian 6 box, but all others are custom built centos. I do IA for a living, so that's why the heavy rhel background.<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 8:31 PM, Ron Frazier (ALE) <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:atllinuxenthinfo@techstarship.com" target="_blank">atllinuxenthinfo@techstarship.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi all,<br>
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I'm considering making a mini nas to run backups on here at home. It would probably have 2 - 4 TB of storage. My router has 1 USB port, so I could just attach a HDD to that. Or, I could get something like a Buffalo Link Station which holds two drives and attaches to the router.<br>
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The main concern I've always had about having backup media attached all the time is that, if a virus got into the machine, it could attack and wipe out the backup drive.<br>
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So, I need to know how to make a virus proof nas, such that at least one partition on the device is accessible only to the backup software for write mode. I don't care if everything can read the backup file, but I only want the backup software to be able to add new files, write to them, or delete them.<br>
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I need something that can run while Windows 7 is running and backup using the volume shadow copy service. I also need it to be able to back up the ext4 Ubuntu partition on the PC's HDD, either by reading the native file system or by using a sector by sector approach. This way, I can just let the backups run periodically on their own and not worry about malware affecting the backup.<br>
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Any help is appreciated.<br>
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Sincerely,<br>
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Ron<br>
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