Sorry I did not mean give to Grandma, but meant that many of us are constantly called in as "tech support" thus how to quickly grab your stuff and do it while visiting said relative. Thus the talk would have two focuses 1) On how backup apply to supporting your extended family and 2) How it works in a SOHO (Small Office/Home Office) setting. I am not planning on bring it to the Enterprise level where you use a client/server and PixE boot the images, scaling from 1,000 to 1,000,000 instances, etc. etc.
I think talks on "how to backup your small office system so you don't go out of business" is interesting, but not academic level backup talks where "big-O" has to be mentioned. But that's me I am not by any means talking for anyone or any group of people, just my 2 cents. On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 4:22 PM, Matthias Johnson < [email protected]> wrote: > Clonezilla is awesome but not something I would give to grandma. Any > cloning software is destructive *crap I cloned the wrong way* and therefore > wouldn't recommend it to anyone not familiar. These kinds of things I am > happy to do for people as a tech person, spyware removal is really the only > thing I hate. The thing I like most about Clonezilla is it shows drive > serials and other information which makes it easier to determine which way > you are going especially if you have to of the same model drive which I > often run into when setting up offices and labs. > > As far as backup topics, I think that it is awesome and by no means boring. > I always like going over this stuff and swapping ideas as I deal with this > frequently enough. Just a few hours ago I dealt with my first LVM mounting > of an old Fedora install onto a new CentOS install to copy files. I have > mounted ext partitions plenty of times but had to dig around a bit to figure > out how to handle LVMs. A bunch of the websites I came across were > incorrect in their information. I would love to have a meeting with people > that have already dealt with all this kind of stuff and figured out the > easiest or fastest ways to work around things like this. > > Matthias Johnson > > _______________________________________________ > Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org > http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug > > Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium > Apr 6 - Introduction to IPv6 > May 4 - Inkscape > Jun 1 - Zimbra > >
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