Re: [Hampshire] Open source network backup with de-dupe.

2010-07-17 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 09:15:23 +0100 (+0100), James Courtier-Dutton wrote: I've come to the conclusion that there aren't any decent open source backup products.  Yes, I do actually have it on my todo list to write [snip] So, in summary, it is not good enough to replace the system currently

Re: [Hampshire] Open source network backup with de-dupe.

2010-07-17 Thread Vic
Being able to take snapshots every few minutes and sync them to a remote datacentre really is rather nice Yep. I've done that with LVM snapshots and rsync. Very handy :-) Vic. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface:

Re: [Hampshire] Open source network backup with de-dupe.

2010-07-17 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 21:11:25 +0100 (+0100), Keith Edmunds wrote: However, Chris is right: you cannot *know* that two files are the same unless you compare them, byte by byte. If hashes are good enough for you, just backup the hashes and save lots of time and diskspace! My understanding on

Re: [Hampshire] On-line Banking (Not entirely O.T.)

2010-07-17 Thread Adrian Bridgett
tac will do this BTW. (tac = cat spelt backwards. I don't think any Unix wizards will ever win a comedy award, except perhaps Randall Munroe (of xkcd.com fame)). Adrian -- bitcube.co.uk - Expert Linux infrastructure consultancy Puppet, Debian, Red Hat, Ubuntu, CentOS -- Please post to:

Re: [Hampshire] ubuntu updates

2010-07-17 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 14:25:02 +0100 (+0100), James Courtier-Dutton wrote: I find apt-cacher-ng easier to configure. It also has the advantage that it works with debian and ubuntu machines simultaneously which IIRC apt-cacher didn't. Recommended. Adrian -- bitcube.co.uk - Expert Linux

Re: [Hampshire] Printers

2010-07-17 Thread Samuel Penn
On Friday 16 July 2010 10:19:11 James Courtier-Dutton wrote: Hi, I have a requirement for a Laser Duplex printer with Ethernet network interface. The last time I brought a printer was about 10 years ago. The previous one was a HP LaserJet 4L. Does anyone have any recommendations? I've

Re: [Hampshire] Lost sound

2010-07-17 Thread Samuel Penn
On Friday 16 July 2010 21:48:40 Tim wrote: Short of rebooting my PC how can I restart the sound system on my PC? If I try to run Amarok I get the following error xine was unable to initialize any audio drivers Is there an application running which has grabbed the sound device? I sometimes

[Hampshire] xfce4 and keyboards

2010-07-17 Thread Samuel Penn
Hi all, I've decided to have a play with Xfce (4.6.1, on Gentoo) but I'm having some keyboard issues. I can't see to get a UK layout on my keyboard. It works fine in KDE. I've tried the Keyboard Layouts plugin, and I've also added options into xorg.conf[1] as suggested by some Googling, but I

Re: [Hampshire] Printers

2010-07-17 Thread Jim Kissel
Samuel Penn wrote: On Friday 16 July 2010 10:19:11 James Courtier-Dutton wrote: Hi, I have a requirement for a Laser Duplex printer with Ethernet network interface. The last time I brought a printer was about 10 years ago. The previous one was a HP LaserJet 4L. Does anyone have any

Re: [Hampshire] Lost sound

2010-07-17 Thread Tim
On Saturday 17 July 2010 18:13:51 Samuel Penn wrote: On Friday 16 July 2010 21:48:40 Tim wrote: Short of rebooting my PC how can I restart the sound system on my PC? If I try to run Amarok I get the following error xine was unable to initialize any audio drivers Is there an