Re: [FRIAM] Opportunity to upgrade

2008-12-23 Thread Nicholas Frost
> Yes, if you remove the --delete parameter to the rsync call, then it > will not delete files that no longer exist in the source file system. At > RTI I don't use --delete when backing up certain project shares, to >protect against users' "accidental" file deletions. Of course, you end up >with a

Re: [FRIAM] Opportunity to upgrade

2008-12-23 Thread Steve Smith
Douglas Roberts wrote: My toes are basking in the warm breeze from the back of my AMD64 server as I type this.  In the summer I open a window.  Nick Frost wrote: ... I pale at the thought of how much electricity is used on the average weekend in Santa Fe by fleets of Pen

Re: [FRIAM] Opportunity to upgrade

2008-12-23 Thread Steve Smith
Douglas Roberts wrote: My toes are basking in the warm breeze from the back of my AMD64 server as I type this.  In the summer I open a window.  Nick Frost wrote: ... I pale at the thought of how much electricity is used on the average weekend in Santa Fe by fleets of Pen

Re: [FRIAM] Opportunity to upgrade

2008-12-23 Thread Steve Smith
Marcus G. Daniels wrote: Owen Densmore wrote: One example occurred a while back when we bought a SlingBox. Its a nifty device that makes your TV available on the web. Which begs the question: Why isn't TV available on the internet anyway? Why download it through one protocol (say analog NT

Re: [FRIAM] Opportunity to upgrade

2008-12-23 Thread Douglas Roberts
Yes, if you remove the --delete parameter to the rsync call, then it will not delete files that no longer exist in the source file system. At RTI I don't use --delete when backing up certain project shares, to protect against users' "accidental" file deletions. Of course, you end up with a backup

[FRIAM] Fwd: The Venus Syndrome -- and Happy Holidays!

2008-12-23 Thread peggy miller
In the attached below email, Jim Hansen, NASA's Goddard Space Institute Director, is predicting that we are heading for a catastrophic collapse of the earth if we continue to burn coal or oil sands. He calls it the Venus syndrome -- making the earth so hot that it just spirals into a total evapora

Re: [FRIAM] Opportunity to upgrade

2008-12-23 Thread Owen Densmore
Thanks! I really need to start using rsync for backup and possibly keeping a couple of pools of data which keep in sync with each other so any one of them can be the latest version. A slightly different problem is solved by Apple's Time Machine. Its the old day-week-month backup strategy

Re: [FRIAM] Opportunity to upgrade

2008-12-23 Thread Douglas Roberts
My toes are basking in the warm breeze from the back of my AMD64 server as I type this. In the summer I open a window. Backups are done like this: # #/home/roberts # echo "Starting /home/roberts backup" >>/home/roberts/backup.log date >>/home/roberts/backup.log /usr/bin/rsync -vurltD --delete -

Re: [FRIAM] Opportunity to upgrade

2008-12-23 Thread Roger Critchlow
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 1:55 PM, Owen Densmore wrote: > > Is anyone else pursuing a "The Network is the Computer" approach? Any > tales to tell? > Old habits die hard. I did a demo of technology for a distributed file system last week using Amazon EC2 for the network. But back home, I've got

Re: [FRIAM] Opportunity to upgrade

2008-12-23 Thread Nicholas Frost
> All the discussions of nifty hardware possibilities, along with my > slightly flower-child "whole shebang" view, leads me to ask folks > about their larger computing ecology and how it has impacted your > choice of new devices, whether desktops, laptops, phones, servers, > media (tivo, appletv, .