[clue] Plug Computers

[Will]

Scott,

  Thanks for the information.  Looking at Pogo the convince of it all would
be very nice but I do have some pause about the only thing between my
backups and the Internet being an e-mail address and password.  Do you use
the Pogo software or have you used uboot to load another Distro?

-Will

On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 9:10 AM, Scott Mann <sunix13 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> On 04/26/2011 08:37 AM, Will wrote:
> > Has anyone used one or more plug computers and have any input on the
> > pros or cons of one make & model over another?
> >
> > I'm toying with the idea of using a plug computer for a backup device.
> >  The idea is that I would put the plug at either my office or at a
> > friend's house.  It would establish a VPN connection to my Linux
> > server at home and then my home computers can rsync to it on a regular
> > basis.
> >
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> I'm using a pink pogo as an internal file server and an original
> pogoplug as a backup server. I've modified the pink's firmware along the
> lines of http://jeff.doozan.com/debian/uboot/. Of course, there are also
> various administrative modifications necessary for functionality and
> security. Both of these devices have been bullet-proof and consume way
> less power than the rack mounted servers they replaced. I realize these
> are older devices, but you may want to check out pogo's web site. The
> new device is black in color and, I believe, uses a different
> motherboard (don't know about the state of uboot for it). But it looks
> like pinks are still available at
>
> http://www.amazon.com/Pogoplug-POGO-E02-Multimedia-Sharing-Device/dp/B0033WSDR4
> ,
> for instance. Anyway, I can recommend the pink for what you are thinking
> about doing and there's a lot of uboot/os support for it (see
> http://www.plugapps.com/index.php5/Main_Page).
>
> I was fooling around with a guruplug, but it overheated :) Although, I
> received replacement parts from the manufacturer, I haven't had a chance
> to work on it. I've heard good things about these and other such devices
> (like the dream plug -
> http://www.globalscaletechnologies.com/c-5-dreamplugs.aspx). So, you may
> be better off heading in that direction.
>
> Just my $.02
>
> -Scott
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