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My backup scare came when I patched Solaris and it failed to boot afterwords. I was able to mount my filesystem from the CD and make an nfs mount, so I was able to save my music, but that was too close. My music collection isn't overly large, but I do need to service my Solaris and Windows boxes. I picked up a Linksys Slug and installed the unslung firmware so I could install the nfs daemon. I use rsync on the Solaris box and SyncBack on the Windows box to backup to the Slug. I eventually picked up another Slug and installed it at my parent's house, again unslung, running ssh and rsync to have a remote backup. All of their pictures and such are backed up to the Slug at their place, which is then mirrored on mine. If a file gets accidentally deleted or corrupted I'm still screwed, but if my house goes up in flames I still have a copy of my data someplace else. The Slugs were relatively cheap and do well enough. The one at my parents house with unslung 6.10 seems to need a reboot every couple of weeks where mine with 6.8 just keeps on going... -- 4mula1 SqueezeCenter 7.1 + Solaris 10 x86: Because everything else would've been easy! '4mula1 on Last.fm' (http://www.last.fm/user/4mula1) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 4mula1's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3439 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=50299 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
