Ready to expand from 1 machine to 3

[Bob Zelin]

https://www.indiestor.com/documentation/installation

Here you go Jack – tell me if you feel comfortable doing this …

Installing indiestor is much easier than you might think! Regardless of experience, the following page will guide you through the process of setting up your own Avid specific storage server. Depending on the number of workstations you want to attach, suitable hardware choices range from a laptop or desktop, to a fully blown server chassis stacked with drives and hardware RAID.

System requirements:
•Suitable storage provision (hardware RAID recommended)
•Gigabit network connectivity (minimum)

Supported operating systems:
•Ubuntu Precise (12.04)
•Ubuntu Raring (13.04)
•Debian Squeeze
•Debian Wheezy*
•Mint Nadia

* We use Wheezy here at the indiestor lab as it seems to yield the best performance across the board. That said Ubuntu Desktop is a great starting point if you are new to Linux.

The following steps can be simply copied and run in a terminal window. You will need to have administrative privileges on the system to execute these commands.

STEP 1

Download and install the GPG key for packages.indiestor.com:
wget -q -O – https://packages.indiestor.com/indiestor.gpg.key | sudo apt-key add –

STEP 2

Add the appropriate indiestor repository for your operating system:
echo “deb https://packages.indiestor.com/apt/ubuntu precise main” | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/indiestor.com.list
echo “deb-src https://packages.indiestor.com/apt/ubuntu precise main” | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/indiestor.com.list
echo “deb https://packages.indiestor.com/apt/ubuntu raring main” | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/indiestor.com.list
echo “deb-src https://packages.indiestor.com/apt/ubuntu raring main” | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/indiestor.com.list
echo “deb https://packages.indiestor.com/apt/debian squeeze main” | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/indiestor.com.list
echo “deb-src https://packages.indiestor.com/apt/debian squeeze main” | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/indiestor.com.list
echo “deb https://packages.indiestor.com/apt/debian wheezy main” | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/indiestor.com.list
echo “deb-src https://packages.indiestor.com/apt/debian wheezy main” | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/indiestor.com.list
echo “deb https://packages.indiestor.com/apt/mint nadia main” | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/indiestor.com.list
echo “deb-src https://packages.indiestor.com/apt/mint nadia main” | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/indiestor.com.list

STEP 3

Refresh the cache, entering the password as required:
sudo apt-get update

STEP 4

Install indiestor directly from our repository:
sudo apt-get install indiestor

This command will automatically fetch and configure all required dependencies. A dependency is a software or library that another program requires to run.

In the case that a samba configuration already exists you will be asked if indiestor should overwrite the smb.conf file. You can ignore this note if samba is being installed automatically as an indiestor dependency. Be aware that if you choose not to overwrite smb.conf, the indiestor global and share directives must be manually added (as documented in the manual)

STEP 5

For both security and convenience indiestor allows only certain elected users to use the command line administration tool. You must add at least one user to the indiewheel group as follows:
sudo usermod -a -G indiewheel USERNAME-TO-ADD

STEP 6

That’s it! Grab yourself a cup of coffee and familiarise yourself with our manual. There are a few post install tasks you will need to perform at each workstation you wish to connect such as enabling Avid ‘alldrives’ in the console.
man indiestor

If you get stuck please don’t hesitate to get in contact, we’d be more than happy to help!

Bob Zelin
Rescue 1, Inc.
maxavid@cfl.rr.com

[Jack Johnson]

Well Bob, I must admit, I’m a little disappointed you didn’t know that NSA handles all the metadata. I thought everyone knew that.

Alex, indiestor appears to be right up my alley.

[Alex Gardiner]

[Jack Johnson] “Alex, indiestor appears to be right up my alley.”

Well sadly it doesn’t run on Mac, but Vidsharx does and its a great piece of kit! 😉

[Bob Zelin] “Here you go Jack – tell me if you feel comfortable doing this …”

Well I don’t disagree with the sentiment at all… and it is very true you have to be familiar with Linux to use indiestor.

Then again, since Jack doesn’t want bin/media sharing, or run Linux.. I didn’t bother to mention it.

Overall, best of luck with the project Jack. I’m sure you will land on your feet with this. Any more than a couple of streams to a couple of clients and I would bring the cavalry in…

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+447961751453
github.com/indiestor
indiestor.com – “Avid project sharing, shared!”

[Bob Zelin]

Alex is correct – Vidsharx is a great product and is being successfully implemented for small AVID installations of your size.

Bob Zelin
https://vidsharx.com/

ps – I am so “fried” that I did not get the NSA and metadata comment until I googled it. I actually said “what the hell is he talking about – what is NSA”. Well, what can I say, I am an idiot.

Bob Zelin
Rescue 1, Inc.
maxavid@cfl.rr.com