On Friday 18 August 2006 03:03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'd like to thank you all for your extremely valuable assistance in helping > us with our new server purchase. We ordered the Dell that I originally > asked about, with a few minor changes. [snip] > Jim McQuillan, you made a very valid point that I did not get a chance to > address -- why raid? You are right. People these days do tend to just > take that for granted. I've taken flak for not having a raid on our > current main server through the years. I back up all our data to another > machine every night, and to tape every week. Even with that, though, when > the scsi drive went out earlier this year, we lost a couple of days worth > of data, and were fortunate to have only lost that. I'm still living with > the consequences of that, as at the time, I was backing it up to a Windows > box -- so all the timestamps are all the same for all data files. What a > pain in the neck! Now we have it going to a Linux server, where I can > control that better.
[snip] After years I just tried mindi/mondo again, and used it to back up (and restore a system). I would not use it for everyday data, but it does a good system backup! James ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
