________________________________________ From: Christ Schlacta [[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, 30 August 2009 5:48 AM To: Shorewall Users Subject: Re: [Shorewall-users] sad story:(
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. 1, Spend $10 on a 2GB USB Memory stick. 2, plug that into USB slot, re-partion and mkfs with ext3. 3, create a new mount point eg: /backup, and mount the new usb filesystem on that. 4, update /etc/fstab so that this is automounted 5, make some scripts to copy all your config onto that fs after every change. Total money cost..: $10 Total time cost..: about 10 minutes Total result...: Without Measure. 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. NOTE: URL removed for security purposes - contact [email protected] for support. > > I've always found that selling a backup system is hard work - until a > customer has lost something valuable/critical. Tom, I totally agree. Backup solutions can be so inexpensive. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 NOTE: URL removed for security purposes - contact [email protected] for support. _______________________________________________ Shorewall-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/shorewall-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
