Re: Seeking Wisdom Concerning Backups

On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 07:36:31PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > (Now to wrap my brain around cron. Arg) Well, if its just "daily", plunk a script in /etc/cron.daily and it will happen. Any output of the script gets mailed to you. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Seeking Wisdom Concerning Backups

Ken Irving wrote: On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 04:48:07PM -0600, Kent West wrote: Owen Townend wrote: On 2/29/08, *Kent West* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: I have a small server on which I need to backup the /home partition. This sounds very promisin

Re: Seeking Wisdom Concerning Backups

Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 04:48:07PM -0600, Kent West wrote: ... and almost immediately got an "no drive space left" error. Then looking at "df -h", I see that my smallish / partition (463MB) is full, so I've got to see what's eating up that space (I think it's

Re: Seeking Wisdom Concerning Backups

On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 04:48:07PM -0600, Kent West wrote: ... > and almost immediately got an "no drive space left" error. Then looking > at "df -h", I see that my smallish / partition (463MB) is full, so I've > got to see what's eating up that space (I think it's because a new > kernel wa

Re: Seeking Wisdom Concerning Backups

On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 04:48:07PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > Owen Townend wrote: >> >> On 2/29/08, *Kent West* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: >> >> I have a small server on which I need to backup the /home partition. >> >> I have a Barracuda Terastation Pro backup ser

Re: Seeking Wisdom Concerning Backups

On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 04:39:02PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > >First decide if you want to have a local tarball on the box and then > >transfer the tarball, or if you want to create and transfer the tarball > >in one step. > I'd prefer to not have to create the tarball l

Re: Seeking Wisdom Concerning Backups

Owen Townend wrote: On 2/29/08, *Kent West* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: I have a small server on which I need to backup the /home partition. I have a Barracuda Terastation Pro backup server sitting right next to it, connected via Ethernet. I don't ne

Re: Seeking Wisdom Concerning Backups

Brian McKee wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 28-Feb-08, at 6:49 PM, Kent West wrote: I have a small server on which I need to backup the /home partition. I have a Barracuda Terastation Pro backup server sitting right next to it, connected via Ethernet. The problem i

Re: Seeking Wisdom Concerning Backups

Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 05:49:47PM -0600, Kent West wrote: The problem is that the Terastation Pro only offers three connection methods: Windows Fileshare (Samba/smb/cifs), Apple Filesharing (AFS), and FTP). I'd go with FTP I don't know what a Barracuda T

Re: Seeking Wisdom Concerning Backups

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 28-Feb-08, at 6:49 PM, Kent West wrote: I have a small server on which I need to backup the /home partition. I have a Barracuda Terastation Pro backup server sitting right next to it, connected via Ethernet. The problem is that the Terastat

Re: Seeking Wisdom Concerning Backups

On 2/29/08, Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have a small server on which I need to backup the /home partition. > > I have a Barracuda Terastation Pro backup server sitting right next to > it, connected via Ethernet. > > The problem is that the Terastation Pro only offers three connection

Re: Seeking Wisdom Concerning Backups

On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 05:49:47PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > I have a small server on which I need to backup the /home partition. > > I have a Barracuda Terastation Pro backup server sitting right next to > it, connected via Ethernet. > > The problem is that the Terastation Pro only offers three

Seeking Wisdom Concerning Backups

I have a small server on which I need to backup the /home partition. I have a Barracuda Terastation Pro backup server sitting right next to it, connected via Ethernet. The problem is that the Terastation Pro only offers three connection methods: Windows Fileshare (Samba/smb/cifs), Apple Files