Re: Suggestions for multilevel backup of single machine?
On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 01:47:08PM +0100, James Youngman wrote: Here's my current backup arrangement: Data is stored in filesystems on LVM volumes over RAID1. While RAID1 presents some protection from disk failure, it gives no protection against data corruption due to flaky hardware or data loss caused by fire or theft. Therefore I have an offsite backup arrangement. This consists of two rsync backups. One backup goes to a local disk (different disk manufacturer, different disk controller) and the other rsync backup is to a disk at work. This works a bit but the outgoing bandwidth on my cable connection is low (about 0.3 Mbps). If I make a large change to the machine (e.g. dist-upgrade) I physically swap the home and work backup disks (this is the main reason for keeping the local backup too). This at least allows me to place an upper limit on the amount of data I would lose in the case of (e.g.) a fire. However, there are two respects in which I think some improvement would be useful: (1) Quite a lot of the files on my system are files I never expect to change again. I plan to write a few scripts which will tell me if a file that hadn't been modified in, say, two years was in fact recently modified. This could give me early warning that the disk controller has gone berserk (again). (2) It would be useful to have a historic backup capability too (e.g. the way the filesystem looked yesterday, last week, last month and a year ago), at least for filesystems like /home. What are good solutions for doing (2)? (Please only recommend software you're using yourself :) Thanks, James. I use duplicity http://duplicity.nongnu.org/ --- Henri Salo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Big Database Server General Question
On Sat, Apr 04, 2009 at 11:07:10PM -0500, Tim McDonough wrote: distributed database, database replication Thank you to all. Now that I am looking down the right path I have plenty of material to read. Tim This is very good book of the subject. http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~database/ddbook.html --- Henri Salo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Happy lenny, everyone!
On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 02:40:37PM -0600, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: I know most Debian users think that only testing is suitable for this desktop use, but my family members use stable for all their needs, so the lenny release has me very happy that I can now give them an upgrade to their experience. Happy lenny release, everyone! Almost 22 months since last release, and there are many good reasons to be happy with it. - Jordi G. H. There are lots of users who don't think that way. I'm also using stable in desktop and in servers. --- Henri Salo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: To-do-list Application
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 10:44:52PM +0700, Zaki Akhmad wrote: I am looking for such a post it application. So that I can write my to-do-list and view it on my Desktop. Any suggestion? I'm using riot http://modeemi.cs.tut.fi/~tuomov/riot/ - Henri Salo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Snort (debian (etch) always ago)
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 09:28:35AM -0200, Márcio Luciano Donada wrote: Hi list, Because debian (etch) while still maintaining version 2.3.3. FreeBSD, for example currunt already uses the version 2.8.2.2. Why not at least debian stable places in the version 2.4, I have problems to update the rules with the oinkmaster thnx. -- Márcio Luciano Donada mdonada at auroraalimentos dot com dot br Aurora Alimentos - Cooperativa Central Oeste Catarinense Departamento de T.I. What kind of problems? I haven't yet meet a single problem updating rules in etch. There is good examples for how to make proper configuration for oinkmaster in oinkmaster.conf. - Henri Salo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: transferring directories with scp/rsync?
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 06:54:30PM -0400, Zach Uram wrote: Hello, I have a directory /tmp/foo on my local host alpha.org and I wish to transfer it to user Bob (/home/bob) in dirctory $HOME/www/bar on remote host beta.org. How precisely can I do this 1) using scp 2) using rsync? I would like to see the commands for doing this with both methods. Ssh is running on both hosts. Also what happens if the directory already existed on the remote host and has some of the same file names. Is it possible to use md5sums so that if a file is exact (same hash) it will prompt me and ask if I want to over-write it before it does? Zach If you prefer scp you can make a tar archive of contents first: tar -cvvf package.tar.gz /tmp/foo and transfer it to beta.org: scp package.tar.gz [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/bob/www/bar In beta.org: cd /home/bob/www/bar ; tar xvzf package.tar.gz ; rm package.tar.gz Issuing this command on alpha.org will synchronize content of /tmp/foo to /home/bob/www/bar in beta.org: rsync -a /tmp/foo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/bob/www/bar Scp will overwrite your files if beta.org has same filesnames in that directory. - Henri Salo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
