Dear Donna,
Mention to your husband John how pleased our entire community is at his
MySQL command line prowess... This sort of expertise is the first step
down the slippery slope of Linux advocacy.
Note that with the data backed up with no incident you stand a chance of
weathering a disaster. However, when the time comes, hopefully never, the
restoration process of a MySQL data set can be fraught with complication.
I would like to show you and your intrepid husband how to back up the
entire machine, operation system, database, applications and all. There
are several good tools for this, I use a combination of partimage and
gparted. Again I stress to you, the door of the Barre Open Systems
Institute is open to you, and that door is conveniently located close to
the Aldridge library, grab that machine and show up any Tuesday or call
ahead any other weekday afternoon.
It turned out the animation and game crazed wunderkins who are beating up
"blender" were not as interested in learning the fine art of image backup
as I would have liked.
The term they used was "boring" ah, to be young again!
Yours in bitterness and regret... :^)
With
Kindest Regards,
Paul Flint
On Tue, 22 Apr 2008, Donna Malinowski wrote:
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 22:46:52 -0500 (CDT)
From: Donna Malinowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Re: Jericho library Linux setup
Paul,
Just to let you know John used the mysql dump command to back up the entire
database. It put the backup on my desktop and then transferred to a USB
drive/burned to CD.
I would like to keep in touch regarding this project.
Thanks so much! Donna
On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 10:56 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dear Donna,
My wife goes to work this afternoon, and I could come by later in the
afternoon if all goes well.
Please give me a call and we can exchange numbers. I expect this afternoon
would be fine.
Regards,
Paul
(802) 479 2360
On Tue, 22 Apr 2008, Donna Malinowski wrote:
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:52:16 -0500 (CDT)
From: Donna Malinowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Jim Hefferon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Richard Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Re: Jericho library Linux setup
Hi Paul,
Thanks for your prompt response!
The Jericho Town Library is off of Browns Trace Rd. There is a Jericho
Center Green and we are 7 Jericho Center Circle. Directly accross the from
the Jericho Country Store on Browns Trace.
If you let me know when you are available after today I can work out
meeting you anytime at your convenience. (The library only has partime
hours.)
Thanks again,
Donna
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 2008/04/22 Tue AM 09:26:18 CDT
To: Jim Hefferon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Richard Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Jericho library Linux setup
Dear Donna,
Please call me. I really worry you are at a critical stage where the
loss of data could end your project and/or interest in Free Software.
What you need is a copy of "partimage" STAT.
BTW what is the address of the library? I need an address I can drive to.
Are you right off of Brown's Trace Road?
Regards,
Flint
(802) 479-2360
On Tue, 22 Apr 2008, Jim Hefferon wrote:
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:28:20 -0400
From: Jim Hefferon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Paul Flint <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Richard Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Jericho library Linux setup
Hello Richard and Paul,
Thanks for responding to the query on the Vague list. As I mentioned
there, Donna Malinowski of the Jericho Town Library contacted me about
some trouble she is having, and I've put her summary below.
Rather than fill up the mailing list, I thought to take the discussion
offline so I put the four of us in this mail.
Donna,
Richard Lawrence and Paul Flint are folks from the Unix group who
responded to the mailing that I cc'd you on. I thought that if folks
saw what you wrote then they might be able to say what could be done.
Jim
......................................................................
BACKGROUND
I have been employed by the Jericho Town Library, in Jericho Center,
which has been in operation for 108 years and has only about 6,000
volumes. Basically the library heavily depends on volunteers because the
budget is very tight. We are the last library in Chittenden county to
have a manual card catalog system. The Chittenden County libraries are
checking out a linux based Koha library program. They are looking to
save money by switching from very expensive software such as Follett.
Their vision in the future is to have a system in which patrons can
check out a book on line from any of the libraries in the county, and a
delivery system would drop materials at the patron’s nearest library.
This is already being done in other states i.e. Georgia. The Vermont
Department of Libraries is also very interested in this project and
eventually would like to offer it to all VT libraries.
PROBLEM
The assistant library director in Hinesburg at Carpenter Carse Library
is very knowledgeable in Linux. Several libraries have been meeting with
him once a month since November. I am using a donated 500Mhz Compaq
machine. We have installed Linux (Debian) and Koha (open-source
Integrated Library System (ILS) version 2.2
(http://www.koha.org/about-koha/). My son manually has imputed about 400
patrons into the system. However, in March Koha version 3.0 came out,
and we also installed this version. The conversion to transfer patrons
to the new version still has a glitch. In the meantime I do not want to
lose this patron database. I am not quite sure how to back it up since
the machine does not have a CD burner. I found a web site that may be
helpful http://www.kohadocs.org/usersguide/ch07s01.html however it is a
little too challenging for me!
Any help would be appreciated!
Donna Malinowski
Library Director
Jericho Town Library 899-4686
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please send an acknowledgement in response to this note.
Paul Flint
Barre Open Systems Institute
17 Averill Street
Barre, VT
05641
http://www.bosivt.org
http://www.flint.com/home
skype: flintinfotech
Work: (202) 537-0480
Fax: (703) 852-7089
Consilium
gratuitum .~.
valet /V\
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numerantur ^^-^^
