Is Rockstor right for me?

@elmcrest wrote:

Hey Community,

I'm in a hurry with that so please appologize the general topic, usually I only post stuff with a actual issue and added informations.

Anyways, right now I need to decide until tomorrow morning if rockstor is the right choice.

Some things convinced me to believe this, some questions are left.

So to make things short I just write some stuff and you guys might add your thoughts.

This is for a small agency with mac only environment, afp or smb wouldn't matter, stability is the most important part. Spotlight would be a huge benefit but isn't time critical.
daily backup on an external harddrive is critical, we plan to have two in a daily cycle.
So far it was raid10 and I'd stick to this. Rockstor would run from an usb stick - of course I'd buy a subscription for $15 yearly to get automatic updates.

In the long run a automatic replication would be interesting, maybe even to public cloud.

Anyways, before this gets too complicated, if somebody could say if some of the above stuff isn't possible to do with rockstor, I'd need to setup again a plain debian with netatalk.

Thx in advance,
elmcrest

edit: meanwhile I did give it a try in a virtual machine. besides there is some unexpected output on the console (blk_update_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0), but I ignored this assuming this is due to vmware.
so far it works really nice I have to admit. I am wondering though if using the centOS underneath just as a regular centOS works fine or if this produces issues. f.e. yum update and upgrade and such things.

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