I'm familiar with backup procedures and systems, and have been pushing my wife (this is my home system) to let me buy or build one for quite some time, unfortunately it's simply not in the budget, whereas any downtime up to about three days is. that's how long it owuld take me to reestablish internet connectivity from the ground up if our router was physically stolen and had to be re-built from parts from the local outlet.
Simon Hobson wrote: > Christ Schlacta wrote: >> I just lost all my shorewall6 configs and half my shorewall configs >> because I forgot to add them to the NoUpgrade list before I upgraded. >> >> I'm nearly in tears trying to fix it, and as always IRC support is >> useless in finding a solution to prevent it from happening again.. > > I think this is one area where Debian differs from other distros - it > doesn't put much in /etc/shorewall[6] and won't replace your > shorewall.conf without asking. Upgrades are pretty safe. > > Of course this won't help if you just extract a tarball in situ. > > Your other protection is called a backup regime. > http://netzreport.googlepages.com/all_those_backups_waste_of_pay.html > > I've always found that selling a backup system is hard work - until a > customer has lost something valuable/critical. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Shorewall-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/shorewall-users
