[ale] Use opensuse 13.1 to build NAS machine

[Narahari 'n' Savitha]

Folks:

Happy New Year in advance.  Let this coming 2015 be a Happy, Healthy, Safe
& Peaceful New Year to you all.

I have the following setup on a slightly old box.

Athlon BE2500 CPU.
4GB RAM
14 inch CRT monitor.  (Yes I have one and it works and I love it)

All the following are internal drives

256GB SSD that contains the OpenSuse 13.1 OS (I think tumble weed but not
sure how to find out)
1TB with Windows on it and tons of media.
1TB with OpenSuse currently but will be formatted with XFS
1TB with empty space(back up may be)

500 GB USB 3 drive
250 GB USB 3 drive

500 GB USB 2 drive.

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Now, I need your help to setup NAS and/or SAMBA so it can do (not sure if I
need NAS or not)

a.  backup from all my tabs to USB drive and the internal drive.  Simple
backup nothing sophesticated.
b.  swappable usb drives so I can take it to my safe box once a month
c.  backup from my Windows based PC's.
d.  backup from my Mac.

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Be able to read the media from any of my Windows machines or Mac so I can
play the media
Apple TV be able to read the media that is ripped and put on the so called
NAS box.

Questions are

1.  Do I need a NAS setup (no RAID etc., ) ?
2.  Do I create NFS/SAMBA mounts exposed so each device can write to that
respective folder(thru good client side scripts)
3.  How to make backup of backups as in tab write thru network share at say
3 am and at 5 am cron copies them over to removeable USB drives ?
4.  Any good SAMBA simple to understand links ?

Thanks in advance.
-N
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