in specific regards to backup, I'd like to remind our readership of a great tool I reported on earlier: http://sourceforge.net/projects/plac/ PLAC, Portable Linux Auditing CD, it has some forensics-level tools to backup systems, ie mounts them read-only by default and lets to mount nfs, smb, or ipsec/ssh tunnels and such. Would be much faster and I think more safe than using floppies, that is, if there is a LAN connection and some other machine to copy to of course. Needs 32 megs of RAM iirc (if I remember correctly)... gives you root on four terminals. There are a few other great mini-bootables that cater directly to these tasks (can be used for recovery to some extent). I like searching on freshmeat, then using their ratings to narrow my search, very satisfying and a fabulous track record for successful project-placement.
ciao On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 16:26, Cory Petkovsek wrote: > Scott, I hope you have a backup of your important data. If not you should > make one immediately. If all you have is access to dos, use floppies and > pkzip. PKzip has a disk-spanning option should your zip file grow larger > than a floppy. Test your zip archive, then you'll be ready for surgery. > -- -- Ben Barrett SysAdmin counterclaim Phone: 541.484.9235 Fax: 541.484.9193 _______________________________________________ Eug-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
