Thank you, AMS. This is exactly the response I was expecting. But The List seems to think otherwise. *shrug* So I am trying to reformat questions for the quiz on linux-delhi site.
Regards, -- Manish In infinite wisdom Abhijit Menon-Sen proclaimed thus on Saturday Sep 17, 2005 23:15: > In light of the replies to your posting, I thought I'd mention that I am > quite comfortable with the tradition of soliciting personal replies to a > questionnaire and summarising the responses to the list. I doubt I would > have looked at a web-based version of your questionnaire. > > At 2005-09-14 21:47:18 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > 1. distro: > > SuSE (9.1, 9.3). FreeBSD 5.4. > > > 2. kernel version: > > 2.6.5, 2.6.11. > > > 3. LVM version: > > I don't use LVM. > > > 4. disks (count): > > 10 (4+2+1+1+1+1). > > > 5. RAID (#/no): > > 2*80GB in RAID-1. > > > 6. bootloader (lilo/grub/other): > > GRUB. > > > 7. backup media (disk/cd/dvd/tape/other): > > Disk, CD, DVD. > > > 8. primary use (browsing/programming/multimedia/sever/other): > > A mixture of development machines and servers. > > > 9. backup tool (tar, cpio, mondo, ..., other): > > tar, rsync. > > Configuration files are kept under version control (in Perforce, and the > Perforce repository is itself backed up). > > PostgreSQL databases are backed up via pg_dump, but I'm investigating > PITR (Point-In-Time recovery) and WAL archiving as an alternative. > > > 10. backup frequency (daily, weekly, ...): > > Twice daily. > > > 11. ever tried recovery: > > Yes, a few times, both as a test and by necessity. > > > 12. please elaborate your backup plan's objective and > > how you plan to recover, if required: > > Not sure how to answer that. The objective is to have current, usable > backups of my work with a minimal effort. The system is simple enough > that recovery is just a question of hunting down some files and moving > them back to wherever they were lost. > > > 13. any exotic hardware/software/configuration: > > No. The closest it gets to exotic is the one Windows laptop that I > backup by using rsync against an SMB mounted filesystem. > > > 14. anything else that you think is significant: > > Given the amount of data involved, I prefer incremental distribution of > files over multiple hosts rather than burning "offline" backups to DVD > (or even tape, though that's too expensive for me anyway). > > -- ams _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/ Event: Freedel 2005, 17th & 18th September, 2005 - http://freedel.in
