Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: back up gentoo system

2008-05-10 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 09 May 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: A backup device is just a storage appliance, if should not be parochial about the origin of the data it stores. Agreed. I have gentoo boxes out there that contain backups for themselves, other gentoo machines, tens of various Windows machines and

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: back up gentoo system

2008-05-09 Thread Michael Schmarck
Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 08 May 2008 09:55:50 +0200, Michael Schmarck wrote: To a backup device? Why? Don't Windows users need to backup? No. Not to a drive used for backups of Linux machines. Why? Different OS. You could equally be saying that Linux users

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: back up gentoo system

2008-05-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 09 May 2008 15:38:51 +0200, Michael Schmarck wrote: No. Not to a drive used for backups of Linux machines. Why? Different OS. So. We can use the same web pages, read the same email, why not share hardware? My partner has to use Windows for work, are you saying we are

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: back up gentoo system

2008-05-09 Thread Ian Hilt
On Fri, 9 May 2008 at 10:51pm +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: A backup device is just a storage appliance, if should not be parochial about the origin of the data it stores. hmmm ... parochial #include wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn main() { printf(%s, parochial); } $ gcc