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Boot from server? - Skywatch - 12th Sep, 2016 08:03 PM
I was thinking of setting my Xbians to boot from usb as I have a SD card that has gone bad and I think it may be all the writing to it that casued it to happen.
Then I wondered if it is possible to boot from a CIFS/SMB connected server? What would be the set up if it is possible and would auto backups still be possible?
RE: Boot from server? - Nachteule - 12th Sep, 2016 08:41 PM
(12th Sep, 2016 08:03 PM)Skywatch Wrote: I was thinking of setting my Xbians to boot from usb as I have a SD card that has gone bad and I think it may be all the writing to it that casued it to happen.
You always need sd-card booting from for < RPi3. Only RPi3 can boot from USB directly (but this is still experimental feature)
Quote:Then I wondered if it is possible to boot from a CIFS/SMB connected server?
AFAIK it is not possible having root fs on CIFS/SMB. Only NFS is supported
Quote:What would be the set up if it is possible and would auto backups still be possible?
That is interesting question
I suppose it should work. I can't see anything hardcoded in the backup functions
RE: Boot from server? - Skywatch - 13th Sep, 2016 04:01 AM
Thanks for the reply
I never thought it would be easy, but with a mix of pi1 and pi2 it would be a bit hit and miss.
The only reason I run smb is to allow a windows PC to also share and access the mounts. I thought that would not happen if they were NFS. Is that right?
I'll order a USB stick and see how that goes.
RE: Boot from server? - Nachteule - 13th Sep, 2016 04:20 AM
(13th Sep, 2016 04:01 AM)Skywatch Wrote: I never thought it would be easy, but with a mix of pi1 and pi2 it would be a bit hit and miss.
Heh, after you have it done you will say: man, that was quite easy
Quote:The only reason I run smb is to allow a windows PC to also share and access the mounts. I thought that would not happen if they were NFS. Is that right?
I do not know if Windows > 7 have NFS client support, I suppose NO. So it is not possible without installing 3rd party client software to mount nfs shares. And, it is still pain to map *nix and windows user names / id's.
Quote:I'll order a USB stick and see how that goes.
Yeah, but please keep in mind, you still need sd-card for booting
RE: Boot from server? - Skywatch - 13th Sep, 2016 05:17 AM