[pewter77]

So I'm building a machine, parts are in except i have to wait til friday to pick up the processor from microcenter. I'm planning on running xbmcbuntu which to my understanding is lubuntu with xbmc pre-compiled. So I'm assuming it would be easy to install sickbeard/sabnzbd etc. correct me if I'm missing something please! I'll be installing to an ssd that I have lying around using ext4.

What I'm concerned with is that I have 3 HDD's 2TB each that i want look like its one disk for simplicity sake. What is the easiest way to do this? If eventually I want to put new HDD to add to the storage pool what would be the easiest? I'm new to linux but I want to learn.

Also I guess this might be a good place to ask if theres an easy way to watch folders and have them delete files over 30 days old. Find using -mget and a -exec rm but i'm not sure how to make it run all the time or on a schedule and how I could update XBMC and Sickbeard to reflect those files being gone by refreshing/rebuilding libraries.

Thanks for looking,

Cheers.

[pumkinut]

ZFS would work just fine, but you'll need to do some reading, same with LVM. Software RAID, which is what you're going to do unless you spend some money on a true RAID controller, is about your only option. RAID is not backup, backup is backup. If you're going to run some type of RAID (I'd recommend at least RAID 5, 6 if you can) then I'd make sure you take regular backups of your content and keep the backup offline.

[thethirdnut]

Set your delete script's schedule in Ubuntu using 'crontab -e'.

[pewter77]

OK so LVM sounds fine, can I easily expand it without loosing data? Is there a guide to setting it up easily?

thethirdnut, or anyone else for that matter, would using the find command with date modified etc and then adding it as a cronjob, would that be the best way to schedule deleting a certain show after a certain time (daily show becomes useless to me after about a month as it becomes irrelevant)? Or is there a better way to do it through xbmc?

Thanks and Cheers!

[thethirdnut]

Sort out, test and verify a bash script to find and delete the files you want - and then simply add that script's name to crontab.

cron just runs other applications - you don't any scripting itself in your cron job list.

[KRA77]

ZFS, it's fantastic I tell you, if you dont want to spend days creating raid arrays or lvm

zfs does the same job in seconds..