1700 I've made a couple of ‘system’ diagrams lately, one of the components inside the PSXPC, and the other of the constituent parts of the PavNAS. It’s very satisfying and really helps me to remember what's connected to what.
I need to do another one for the home network, especially after today: a third switch has been added (well, fourth, if you count the router itself), this time in the cellar. I guess I just like the reässurance afforded by a wired connection!
The plan today was to put a switch in (network) place of the kitchen PC, and then run cables ‘back’ to the kitchen, the old Rock desktop, and to the PavNAS when it's back in its place. In the grand scheme of routing network cables around the house, it wasn't too arduous today: I simply taped the end of one cable to another and persuaded it down the hole from kitchen to cellar. The switch got attached to (‘dangled from’) the wall and all the cables go into it - done. In a world where setting things up is often an utter zarkache (see OMV), it always amazes me how simply & reliably this works.
Hmm, had a thought: the PavNAS had a home in the cellar in order to separate it as far as possible from other repositories of data in the house; that way, a disaster that afflicts one might not wipe out all of them. But… now that the old Rock desktop has its new home on the cellar shelves, there's no point putting the PavNAS there, in terms of separation; it's too close to make a difference, disaster-wise.
Perhaps the PavNAS can live on the shelf near the router where the Stone used to live when it was the Living Room PC. Obviously, an OMV machine won't be any good at being a normal PC, but… if I can learn a bit more about OMV plugins, perhaps the PavNAS could run Kodi, or something like that.
Then again, what's the point? The mini PC on the back of the telly that's the current Living Room PC (LRPC) is supremely capable, and both LE and I are capable of navigating files on a PC, i.e. we don't need a media server with a pretty front-end.
…and the plan is to swap-out that mini PC for the (literally identical) mini PC contained in the PSXPC in order to use that as the LRPC, and as a console emulator.
Perhaps that's the project I need when all this copying malarkey is over!
Talking of LRPC, part of that grand backing-up project today includes copying all the latest downloads from the LRPC onto an E(xternal)HDD and then distributing those files across the organised directories in the ‘Sorted Definitive’ folder …which is (almost) copied to four separate places. There's probably a more efficient way of doing it, but I think I'll just copy it all onto the old Rock desktop, and then distribute it to the two main EHDDs, and PavNAS. Then I'll have a test at copying it from PavNAS onto the old Big Box desktop, before taking that PC off to live in an off-site place.
…so this project's not quite over yet.
