I have a small client (30 employees) using Linux servers that is
struggling to find a robust and reliable backup solution that provides
bare-metal recovery capability without costing over $10K. It's easy to
find expensive solutions that work wonderfully.
The primary challenge so far has been
On 2/5/08, Dan Coutu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a small client (30 employees) using Linux servers that is
struggling to find a robust and reliable backup solution that provides
bare-metal recovery capability without costing over $10K. It's easy to
find expensive solutions that work
On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 10:18 -0500, Ben Scott wrote:
On Feb 5, 2008 9:24 AM, Dan Coutu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a small client (30 employees) using Linux servers that is
struggling to find a robust and reliable backup solution that provides
bare-metal recovery capability without
There are some relatively low cost and reasonably high capacity NAS
appliances out there that I think are attractive for this application.
linksys example:
http://www.linksys.com/servlet/Satellite?c=L_Product_C1childpagename=US
On Feb 5, 2008 9:24 AM, Dan Coutu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a small client (30 employees) using Linux servers that is
struggling to find a robust and reliable backup solution that provides
bare-metal recovery capability without costing over $10K.
tar provides bare-metal recovery and is
On Feb 5, 2008 9:24 AM, Dan Coutu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a small client (30 employees) using Linux servers that is
struggling to find a robust and reliable backup solution that provides
bare-metal recovery capability without costing over $10K. It's easy to
find expensive solutions
On 2/5/08, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Feb 5, 2008 9:24 AM, Dan Coutu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a small client (30 employees) using Linux servers that is
struggling to find a robust and reliable backup solution that provides
bare-metal recovery capability without costing
On Feb 5, 2008 10:35 AM, Kenny Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You can get a LTO-4 drive from Dell for $3200. 400 GB native
(uncompressed) capacity. Tapes are around $110 ($0.275/GB).
Um I LTO4 is supposed todo 800GB uncompressed.
Oh, you're right. I had just checked quickly, and
On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 11:09 -0500, Ben Scott wrote:
On Feb 5, 2008 10:35 AM, Kenny Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You can get a LTO-4 drive from Dell for $3200. 400 GB native
(uncompressed) capacity. Tapes are around $110 ($0.275/GB).
Um I LTO4 is supposed todo 800GB
Do people know of any good software to keep track of all this IT
crap? Users, computers (with make, model, serial, CPU, RAM, etc.),
patch panels and their jacks, switches and their ports. Most
importantly, what is connected to what: User A has computer B plugged
into jack C which is
On 2/5/08, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You can get 1TB drives (SATA) for around $250.
Right, but that's $0.25/GB. Smaller disks are cheaper, unless your
data set is only just over 750 GB and not expected to grow.
Well, the problem with disk to disk in general is that the space is
On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 12:16 -0500, Kenny Lussier wrote:
Well, the problem with disk to disk in general is that the space is
finite.
I think a second problem with backing up to disk is that it's generally
on-site and vulnerable to fires and other threats to the original data.
If you have the
On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 13:00 -0500, Lloyd Kvam wrote:
On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 12:16 -0500, Kenny Lussier wrote:
Well, the problem with disk to disk in general is that the space is
finite.
I think a second problem with backing up to disk is that it's generally
on-site and vulnerable to fires
On Tuesday 05 February 2008 13:14, Alex Hewitt wrote:
overnight and when they come to work they run a small script which
transfers the backup to the removable hard drive. They take it with them
when they leave at the end of the day. These drives although reasonably
rugged can't take a drop
Alex Hewitt wrote:
On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 13:00 -0500, Lloyd Kvam wrote:
On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 12:16 -0500, Kenny Lussier wrote:
Well, the problem with disk to disk in general is that the space is
finite.
I think a second problem with backing up to disk is that it's generally
I've got a perfectly functional Linksys WAP54G, and I don't need it
anymore. Finally sprung for an 802.11n base station (D-Link DIR-655),
so this thing is sitting completely unused. They were still selling
for $60 on newegg a few days ago. Any takers for a used-but-perfectly-
functional one
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On Feb 5, 2008 12:03 PM, Alex Hewitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It's been my experience that these tape drives (and I'm not necessarily
talking about this specific model) last about 3 years or so.
It depends on a lot of factors. The super-cheap drives --
On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 15:24 -0500, Ben Scott wrote:
It's fairly simple to implement a multi-tiered rotation. The most
common scenario: Backup everything in full every night. Have daily
tapes for Mon, Tue, Wed, and Thr. Have weekly tapes for Week2, Week3,
Week4, Week5, that get used on
On Feb 5, 2008 4:19 PM, Lloyd Kvam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 15:24 -0500, Ben Scott wrote:
It's fairly simple to implement a multi-tiered rotation. The most
common scenario: Backup everything in full every night. Have daily
tapes for Mon, Tue, Wed, and Thr. Have
On Feb 4, 2008, at 11:33, Thomas Charron wrote:
They
also had several derivatives such as the SPT1740, which included
802.11b/g.
Hey, those are sub-$300 on eBay. Neat.
Pippy Python looks really dead, though.
You might look into an app that can read a barcode via a camera, and
then you
On Feb 1, 2008, at 09:46, Kevin D. Clark wrote:
http://and.sourceforge.net/
Oooh, that's a good start. I need it to molest root-owned processes,
but I'll have a look at the code.
Your Google-Fu is superior to mine.
Thanks,
-Bill
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Bill McGonigle, Owner Work: 603.448.4440
On Feb 5, 2008, at 09:24, Dan Coutu wrote:
They used to use 30Gb tapes but now that the servers are bigger
this doesn't work. Minimum capacity for the smallest system is 80Gb
and the largest system requires ~200Gb to backup everything onto a
single medium. I've tried to use the Iomega
On Feb 5, 2008 6:11 PM, Bill McGonigle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
e.SATA lets you use S.M.A.R.T so you can know if a drive is ailing.
s/can/might/
I've discovered SMART isn't always that smart. I've had drives
which were actively returning media errors to the host adapter, and
were then
Who : Rob Anderson
What : Rockbox - Open source music player firmware
Date : Mon 11 Feb 2008
Time : 7 PM to 9 PM
Where: Room 301, Morse Hall, UNH, Durham, NH
For the first meeting of 2008, SLUG (Seacoast/UNH/Durham) will
feature Rob Anderson presenting on Rockbox. Want to play Doom on your
On Feb 3, 2008, at 23:26, Ben Scott wrote:
If the devices are identical in model, you're likely SOL: The USB
standard doesn't require a unique ID (e.g., hardware address, serial
number), so there's no sure way to tell identical models apart. You
might be able to finagle something with port
On Feb 5, 2008 6:39 PM, Bill McGonigle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have to admit to not really understanding the output of `lsusb -v`
but I didn't see how to tie a device to a part number, however
The output of lsusb -- and lspci, too -- is based on the ID
numbers reported by the various
sounds good. I installed rockbox on my iPod and love it. I thought I missed
the last months meeting due to the snow storm. I am glad its been
rescheduled.
- Original Message -
From: Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Greater NH Linux User Group gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org
Sent: Tuesday,
On Feb 5, 2008, at 18:23, Ben Scott wrote:
I've discovered SMART isn't always that smart. I've had drives
which were actively returning media errors to the host adapter, and
were then unable to complete the smartctl tests successfully, still
report their overall SMART health status as
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