As long as you are discussing backups..... I recently came across a recommendation to put your home directory on a separate partition - the concept being it simplified some aspects of backups and put you in a better position when upgrading or changing a distro.
Comments, qualifications, recommendations, directions? Dennis On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 12:02 -0800, Sebastian Smith wrote: > Brian, > > Sweet! I just got a room confirmed, and was going to send out the > announcement (I'm completely disorganized this month). > > I'm going to present a beginning level topic on the basics of Linux > backup. This topic will cover some of the backup programs available and > how to use them, and some basic backup scripts. > > I think I'll also bring the research robot, and briefly discuss what I'm > working on. > > - Sebastian > > On Tue, 10 Jan 2006, Brian Morris wrote: > > > All, > > > > Since no item got more than a single vote, and since I had captured some > > useful/informative spam logs recently, I have chosen to present > > "Fighting Spam at the ISP Level" (as the advanced topic) at this week's > > meeting. > > > > Sebastian: Are you presenting the basic topic? > > > > Brian > > > > Sebastian Smith wrote: > >> Brian, > >> > >> Excellent list! All are great topics. A lot of them are very broad in > >> scope though. Perhaps they would be better suited as in introductory > >> presentation to a long-running discussion -- I'm thinking GSA topics here. > >> > >> Anyway, I'd like to put my vote on topic 1. I think it'd be great to have > >> an introductory talk on the techniques for combating spam. Then, have an > >> open forum discussion of the ramifactions of the filtering techniques. > >> > >> Spam filtering is the next "big thing" on the tech horizon IMHO. Those > >> companies, ISPs, etc that haven't jumped on the bandwagon yet probably > >> have some anti-spam technology in their 2006 budgets. Addition of this > >> technology will/does affect the way we communicate -- business practices > >> will need to change. So... it's very important -- now the email is the > >> "killer application" -- that we all have an understanding of the new email > >> dataflow model. > >> > >> We'll keep the polls open though. So vote! I've no doubt spam will be on > >> the "discussion platter" within the next few months regardless of the > >> results. > >> > >> - Sebastian > >> > >> On Sun, 18 Dec 2005, Brian Morris wrote: > >> > >> > >> Sebastian, > >> > >> I could present one. Pick one from this list, if you like (the topics > >> would be presented from a fully Linux-centric point of view): > >> > >> 1) Fighting spam at the server/ISP level (Sendmail-intensive) > >> 2) Post-instrusion tracing/investigation > >> 3) Social engineering (and how to not be a victim of it) > >> 4) The birth & death of a TCP packet/stream > >> 5) Advanced syslog control > >> 6) Network and physical attack vectors > >> 7) How telephony works > >> 8) Intro to BGP & OSPF > >> > >> Brian > >> > >> Sebastian Smith wrote: > >> > >>> We have a beginner-level topic for next month. I'm not sure of the > >>> official title, but it is an introduction to the Vi/Vim editors. If you > >>> don't use Vi/Vim you should attend the meeting because they are fantastic > >>> -- especially for coding. > >> > >>> Would anyone like present an advanced-level topic? > >> > >>> - Sebastian > >> > >> > >> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> RLUG mailing list > >>> [email protected] > >>> http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug > >> > >> > >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > RLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
