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Setting Up A Home Server
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Join Date: Aug 2005
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I travel a lot for work and would like to leave my laptop hard drive mostly empty and somehow just keep all of my info at home on a big hard drive (or series of them) there. Anyone have any ideas on how to do this?
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Join Date: Jun 2001
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Buy a decent FW external HD, install (or transfer) your OS X and data on it, boot from the external HD while at home, and access it for data (or boot from it) while you're on the go.
Am I missing something ?
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Thanks. Yeah...you missed the part about leaving it all at home and just serving it up from there to get as needed. Sorry. 
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I wouldn't bother, Dark Sailor. Unless you pay extra for the broadband service you get to your home, its upload speed will be severely throttled, and what happens when your connection is completely down?
A better bet would be to put your files on a VPS or dedicated server hosted elsewhere where the connection will be more reliable and faster, or just use the external HD.
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Clinically Insane
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Originally Posted by Dark Sailor 
Thanks. Yeah...you missed the part about leaving it all at home and just serving it up from there to get as needed. Sorry.
If there are not multiple people accessing the data concurrently, I don't see the advantage of the server.
I see a lot of disadvantages though.
E.g. you can't work offline or you have to handle local copies and have a good version control.
However, depending on how much data you are talking about, Dropbox might be perfect.
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That all makes sense. Thanks! The advice is much appreciated!
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turtle's advice regarding DropBox is great.
If you really need your own harddrive and all you need is a server, then you may also want to consider PogoPlug. I haven't used it, but the concept sounds very intriguing.
If you have some old computer hardware floating around, you can also do this yourself. However, you're limited to the (typically very slow) upload speed of your ISP. This can get annoying really fast -- especially if the Finder insists on making previews. Not a biggie if you are working locally, but if you only have 256 kBit/s …
Then there is also the security aspect: you should always encrypt (e. g. via an ssh tunnel or a vpn). It's not that complicated, but if you don't feel comfortable setting up things by hand, I suggest you get a Dropbox.
(Last edited by OreoCookie; Sep 3, 2009 at 03:00 AM.
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