[TriLUG] Free Sun Ultra 5 for TriLUG

Jason Tower jason at cerient.net
Thu Oct 31 13:53:46 EST 2002


not knowing the details of trilug's physical infrastructure and setup, this 
may be a foolish question: is there any particular reason for adding a 
dedicated machine to accomplish this goal vs. adding a disk to the existing 
machine with the home directories and mounting it as /backup?

jason

On Thursday 31 October 2002 13:27, Tanner Lovelace wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-10-31 at 12:36, Robert Floyd wrote:
> > Tanner is going to pick up the machine today for use at TriLUG. Thanks
> > to all for the suggestions as to its disposition. Feel free to pass
> > those on to Tanner and the SC.
>
> Hi folks,
>
> The SC had previously discussed the possibility of setting up
> a machine with a large hard drive to be a backup server for
> our home directories.  The recent snapshot backup using rsync
> was the basis we were going to use for this.  The idea being
> to provide a server that can be mounted so that if you accidentally
> lose some data, all you would need to do is look in the /backup
> directory and there would be a snapshot of your directory
> 5 minutes ago, 10 minutes ago, 30 minutes ago, 1 hour ago,
> a day ago, etc...
>
> This is particularly timely for me, since my 30GB drive that
> I had /home on in my personal computer just died yesterday.
> And no, I didn't have any backups. :-(
>
> Anyway, we'd love to hear any comments about this.
>
> Thanks,
> Tanner




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