Re: Need help designing backup/server system - raid

2002-12-14 Thread Alvin Oga
hi dennis On Sat, 14 Dec 2002, Alvin Oga wrote: ... > > My idea is to move all this stuff from Windows to a Debian > > fileserver, and in the process put it all on raided IDE > > drives so one HD failure doesn't provoke heart failure or > > stroke. > > > > Actual backups have been of limited us

Re: Need help designing backup/server system

2002-12-14 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya On Sat, 14 Dec 2002, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: > Hi Alvin! > > The problem is that I am *always* home! These are my > personal computers, at least in the sense that I own them, > but they are used for business purposes as well as personal. > > And me thinks you have a simplistic view of Win

Re: Need help designing backup/server system

2002-12-14 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Hi Alvin! The problem is that I am *always* home! These are my personal computers, at least in the sense that I own them, but they are used for business purposes as well as personal. And me thinks you have a simplistic view of Window machines! I have *nothing* in the "My Documents" folder, and ne

Re: Need help designing backup/server system

2002-12-13 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya mike/dennis collection of some backup scripts http://www.Linux-Backup.net -- and yes... backups should be done after everybody goes home ... and do backups in the middle of the day for the past 4 hrs so the morning work is not lost -- backups media is a whole ot

Re: Need help designing backup/server system

2002-12-13 Thread Mike Egglestone
Hi, You may want to look at using samba or smbfs. I sometimes use an smbmount command to mount a win98 share to my debian box. Then I can create tar files or rysnc the data to somewhere else. You can write a quick cron job that will do this auotmagically. hth, Mike > Thanks for that, but I ne

Re: Need help designing backup/server system

2002-12-13 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 03:42:30PM -0600, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: > > > My idea is to get some 120Gb IDE drives, which are pretty reasonable > > now, and set up some sort of raid array. I also have two or three > > 100mHz Pentiums, a 10/100 switch, an

Re: Need help designing backup/server system

2002-12-11 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 03:42:30PM -0600, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: > My idea is to get some 120Gb IDE drives, which are pretty reasonable > now, and set up some sort of raid array. I also have two or three > 100mHz Pentiums, a 10/100 switch, and the two windows systems that are > already networked t

Need help designing backup/server system

2002-12-11 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Greetings; I want to setup a fileserver and backup repository for two windows systems. It seems that no matter what I do, Gates' Law prevails, that is more prevalent in Win systems than Murphy's law, and every time I have a disk problem I lose half my life! (Gates' law: Everything will go wrong, e