NubiSave integration options
Of course, it is possible to just run NubiSave as a stand-alone tool
beneath a local virtual directory.
However, in many cases it might be more useful to run something on top
of it or in addition - like a web interface, a network integrator
or a status monitor.
Web access
NubiSave can serve as backend to practically any web-based data management tool.
It does not have its own frontend on purpose, because so many already exist
- one tool for each job.
ownCloud seems to be a very popular choice these days.
Network integrator/Storage gateway
Likewise, NubiSave doesn't include any local or wide area network integration proxy.
It is possible to run both SMB/CIFS servers (such as
Samba)
and WebDAV servers (such as
Apache httpd/mod_dav/Catacomb)
on top of NubiSave-provided directories. Interestingly, this allows remote chaining
of NubiSave installations!
A policy-driven storage gateway on top of NubiSave has been proposed in the ongoing
work on the Flexible Data Distribution Policy (FlexDDPL). It is under development.
We intend to publish the storage gateway as proposed in the FlexDDPL paper.
We also intend to offer a reasonable setup recipe by integrating the results from
SecCSIE.
Status monitor
Does NubiSave also not ship with a status monitor? Actually, we provide one for you
because there don't seem to be useful ones, not even for user-friendly RAID monitoring :-)
Please download it from the
AllocDemo page
while it is under development.