New server

So a while ago, I wrote about the li'l ol' laptop under the TV; an old, old Dell with a P3 processor that was finally coming to an end. Oliver Hookins, bless his heart, recommended the Zotac ZBox; after a bit of research, I agreed and bought the CI-320. (Sorry, Wout, but I wanted something with a bit more horsepower than a Banana Pi.) I bought 4GB of RAM for it, and I already had a 64GB SSD lying around. Debian installed on it w/o any problems whatsoever, and I migrated everything over a couple of weeks ago.

It's pretty wonderful, not least because it's completely silent. It's passively cooled, and with the SSD there are no moving parts. I've got an external HD attached to it via USB (though this thing has also got eSATA, GigE, wireless, HDMI...), and it does backup for the house. I finally got rid of my crappy, crappy-ass rsync wrapper and set up rsnapshot; I've been told to check out elkarbackup, a nice-looking web interface for it. (Now if I can only get off my butt and set up duply and offsite encrypted storage...)

And the name? Zombie.saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com. Zbox...what're you gonna do?