aStor project
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About
aStor is a network attached storage configurable via user-friendly web-interface. Based on Einarc (a universal storage RAID command line interface) and GNU/Linux. aStor provides file-based access. Currently it supports CIFS, NFS, FTP.
Project is sponsored and developed under the hood of ETegro Technologies company.
Licence
aStor is free software and it is licenced under GNU GPL version 3.
User interface language
- English
- Currently incomplete russian
Features
- Hard drive and logical drives (either JBOD or RAID) management
- Logical volumes management with snapshots support
- Shares (shared directories) with access permissions management
- Comprehensive user and group management
- Supported network protocols for file sharing:
- CIFS
- FTP
- NFS
- Software update through Web-interface form
Installation
The latest aStor's source code can be obtained from Subversion repository:
svn co https://astor.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/astor astor
There are simple automated build system located in trunk/build directory. It is separated on three parts:
| chroot: | Used to create full root filesystem's contents. |
|---|---|
| flash: | Used to create disk image based on root filesystem created on previous step. |
| updates: | Used to create update patches and patchsets. |
Ready to use disk image
We are providing some ready to use disk images here:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/astor/files
Just download .raw file and decompress it writing to either hard drive or USB flash drive to boot up from it in the future. For example:
xz -dc astor-disk_image-XXXXXXXX.raw.xz | dd of=/dev/XXX
Where /dev/XXX is your corresponding block device.
Technical details
aStor itself is a Ruby On Rails application that provides Web-based user interface for configuration and some kind of overlay between it and operating system's and related software configuration.
aStor heavily uses Einarc tool to work with hard drives and logical drives (either JBOD or RAID) based on them.
Currently aStor uses Debian GNU/Linux distribution as base with standard provided software packages with it. Currently targeted platforms are i386 and amd64 only.