On 1 Aug 2006, at 20:17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Craig wrote:
Where you'll really save money is by buying RAM from Crucial instead
of Dell. For what Dell charge for an extra 512Mb you can get 2Gb from
Crucial.
Great Tip, Thanks. I'll have a look at this cause I have 60 or so Dell
workstations with only 256M's on XP.....
With this many machines you might be able to get a good deal direct
from Dell if you're buying all the upgrades at once -- contact your
sales rep. They can only say no :)
I've been foillowing XEN, and am very interested in this setup. I
am on
the Fedora XEN mailing list, and see some interesting questions.
Do you use Xen built on Gentoo?
Yep. Gentoo Dom0 with a few Gentoo DomU and a few Debian DomU. I use
a simple bridged setup, but I'm going to move to routed soon. Apart
from some hiccups with configuring two DomU's to have the same IP
(oops!) the setup works brilliantly. If I didn't use Xen I'd have to
have 3 or 4 times as many machines.
There's a guide to setting up Gentoo and Xen on the Gentoo Wiki which
looks like it's been updated fairly recently: http://gentoo-wiki.com/
HOWTO_Xen_and_Gentoo
Worth looking into, especially if you have the money to get a little
more RAM for your machine.
Use rsnapshot. It's easy to setup and only saves the change deltas so
takes up much less space.
I'll have to start reading
The RSnapshot HOWTO is very clear. Setup will take about 10 minutes
unless you need something particularly complicated: http://
rsnapshot.org/howto/1.2/rsnapshot-HOWTO.en.html I use an internal
network for this to keep backup traffic off the public side of the
network (the SC1425 has two network ports which is nice :)
The initial backup takes a fair while, but subsequent backups of a
server which has 60 users with email and webpages changing on an
almost daily basis takes about 2 minutes (depending on system load at
the time).
There's also a Gentoo Wiki page on various backup solutions at http://
gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Backup
Cheers,
Craig
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