Re: Backup requirement

2008-05-06 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Masatran, R. Deepak wrote: > My backup requirement is as follows: > > Old laptop, for personal use, running Debian Etch. I intend to backup every > month to DVD via my external DVD writer, and to leave copies with friends. DVD is unreliable and very,

Re: Backup requirement

2008-05-01 Thread Tom
On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 08:59 -0400, Brian McKee wrote: > On 30-Apr-08, at 7:48 PM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > >> I am looking at Mondo , etc. Kindly give > >> suggestions. > > > > I've never used Mondo. I tried once only to find that the mondo > > kernel > > couldn'

Re: Backup requirement

2008-05-01 Thread Brian McKee
On 30-Apr-08, at 7:48 PM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: New business venture: send a datacentre to mars with enough redundancy and tape libraries to be great off-site backup Not a new idea :-) http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1200789,00.asp from 2003 PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally s

Re: Backup requirement

2008-05-01 Thread Brian McKee
On 30-Apr-08, at 7:48 PM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: I am looking at Mondo , etc. Kindly give suggestions. I've never used Mondo. I tried once only to find that the mondo kernel couldn't boot my machine. I figure that if I found a machine it wouldn't boot that ea

Re: Backup requirement

2008-04-30 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 10:55:04PM +0530, Masatran, R. Deepak wrote: > Old laptop, for personal use, running Debian Etch. I intend to backup every > month to DVD via my external DVD writer, and to leave copies with friends. > > I want encryption. I use LUKS, but only for my home partition. Then yo