[H] Buffalo Terastation
Being a photographer I have a need for lots of storage space. I currently have 500 Gigs in my PC and am close to running out. Instead of adding more drives I was thinking about purchasing a Buffalo Terastation, seems like pretty good RAID storage for a decent price. Does anyone have any experience with these? Are they decent units? Should I be looking at something else? Thanks! -- Gary
Re: [H] Buffalo Terastation
They seem intersting. I have not fired it up yet, but I have one here at the office for a special project. under $800 for a 4x250GB version, (750GB in RAID5). They run embedded linux. I will post more once we fire it up. Harry Gary Udstrand wrote: Being a photographer I have a need for lots of storage space. I currently have 500 Gigs in my PC and am close to running out. Instead of adding more drives I was thinking about purchasing a Buffalo Terastation, seems like pretty good RAID storage for a decent price. Does anyone have any experience with these? Are they decent units? Should I be looking at something else? Thanks!
Re: [H] Linux imaging
Christopher Fisk wrote: On Mon, 17 Apr 2006, Winterlight wrote: What program can image and restore Linux partitions? You had a couple of responces for actual partition imaging, so I'll go on a slightly different vein. If you were just going for backup, or transfer of a linux system to another hard drive you can just use tar, preserve permissions, etc and tar up the filesystem and restore to another drive. For cloning, we use either Tar and Netcat, Tar and MCat, or rsync for small changes. Harry Christopher Fisk
[H] Running a task at shutdown in XP
I want to use Karen's replicator to replicate files from my laptop to my server when I login in the morning, and again when I shutdown at night. I have the login working, with Windows scheduler, but I can't figure out the shutdown. How do I do that? T
Re: [H] Linux imaging
Tar isn't really cloning. :) Ghost4UNIX is. And it's free. Harry McGregor wrote: Christopher Fisk wrote: On Mon, 17 Apr 2006, Winterlight wrote: What program can image and restore Linux partitions? You had a couple of responces for actual partition imaging, so I'll go on a slightly different vein. If you were just going for backup, or transfer of a linux system to another hard drive you can just use tar, preserve permissions, etc and tar up the filesystem and restore to another drive. For cloning, we use either Tar and Netcat, Tar and MCat, or rsync for small changes. Harry Christopher Fisk
Re: [H] Running a task at shutdown in XP
I think you can create a logoff script in your local Group Policy. Thane Sherrington (S) wrote: I want to use Karen's replicator to replicate files from my laptop to my server when I login in the morning, and again when I shutdown at night. I have the login working, with Windows scheduler, but I can't figure out the shutdown. How do I do that? T
Re: [H] Linux imaging
Ben Ruset wrote: Tar isn't really cloning. :) For Linux it sure is, you don't have any nasty things like a registry to get in your way. Fresh format file system is always cleaner than a partition or sector image. Using Mcat (multicast cat) (Master) #!/bin/sh mount /dev/hda3 /mnt cd /mnt tar clp --numeric-owner --totals . | udp-sender --full-duplex --max-bitrate 30m (Clients) #! /bin/sh PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin echo Reformating... umount /dev/hda3 mkfs.ext2 /dev/hda3 mkswap /dev/hda2 echo Mounting... mount /dev/hda3 /mnt cd /mnt echo Joining multicast... udp-receiver --rcvbuf 50m --nokbd | tar xlp --numeric-owner --totals echo Enabling journal tune2fs -j /dev/hda3 sync echo Fixup grub echo -e root (hd0,2)\nsetup (hd0) | grub --batch --no-floppy echo Done. /sbin/reboot Ghost4UNIX is. And it's free. I might look at that... Harry
Re: [H] Linux imaging
Tar is taking files out of a compressed (well, if it's gzipped) archive and recreating them on your system. Imaging is doing a sector by sector copy, archival, compression, and sector by sector restore on another machine. Now, if you were dd'ing disks, I'd say you were imaging. BTW, we do tar restores of our Linux boxen here. :)
Re: [H] Running a task at shutdown in XP
Would that run before or after all your user processes were given the kill signal? I'd like to use that in place of the manual batchshutdown.cmd that I call instead of doing a standard shutdown. The batch does some stuff and then calls shutdown.exe. The reverse would be useless since user process DriveCrypt (for example) would have already terminated. BTW, the policy paths are: %windir%\System32\GroupPolicy\Machine\Scripts\Shutdown %windir%\System32\GroupPolicy\User\Scripts\Logoff Ben Ruset wrote: I think you can create a logoff script in your local Group Policy. Thane Sherrington (S) wrote: I want to use Karen's replicator to replicate files from my laptop to my server when I login in the morning, and again when I shutdown at night. I have the login working, with Windows scheduler, but I can't figure out the shutdown. How do I do that? T
Re: [H] Linux imaging
Ben Ruset wrote: Tar is taking files out of a compressed (well, if it's gzipped) archive and recreating them on your system. :) Imaging is doing a sector by sector copy, archival, compression, and sector by sector restore on another machine. Not necessarily. Ghost under Fat32/NTFS does not do sector copy, it does file copy, and recreation. Now, if you were dd'ing disks, I'd say you were imaging. DD works well for forensics work, dd-rescure is better. BTW, we do tar restores of our Linux boxen here. :) Harry
RE: [H] Linux imaging
Depending on the imaging solution. DriveImage or whatever before Symantec used to do sector cloning by default. Ghost has almost always done file ghosting except when explicitly given the sector cloning flag. To do real sector cloning is a pretty huge and inefficient process. Its only good for forensics. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Harry McGregor Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2006 12:47 PM To: The Hardware List Subject: Re: [H] Linux imaging Ben Ruset wrote: Tar is taking files out of a compressed (well, if it's gzipped) archive and recreating them on your system. :) Imaging is doing a sector by sector copy, archival, compression, and sector by sector restore on another machine. Not necessarily. Ghost under Fat32/NTFS does not do sector copy, it does file copy, and recreation. Now, if you were dd'ing disks, I'd say you were imaging. DD works well for forensics work, dd-rescure is better. BTW, we do tar restores of our Linux boxen here. :) Harry
Re: [H] Running a task at shutdown in XP
At 02:39 PM 4/18/2006, Ben Ruset typed: I think you can create a logoff script in your local Group Policy. I'd create the script so it does all the backup stuff that you want then run GRC's wizmo shutdown as the last command line in the script. --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com
[H] Active Directory administration utility
I don't know how many of you work with Active Directory, but I just wanted to mention a tool I was exposed to recently. DameWare NT Utilities. There is a 30 day demo, and a single user license (licensed per admin user) is $300. http://www.dameware.com/ If any of you admin any sizable AD and haven't heard of this tool, I'd strongly recommend trying it out. It is pretty amazing. Greg
Re: [H] Active Directory administration utility
Yep. We use Dameware at work Highly recommended. :) --- Greg Sevart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know how many of you work with Active Directory, but I just wanted to mention a tool I was exposed to recently. DameWare NT Utilities. There is a 30 day demo, and a single user license (licensed per admin user) is $300. http://www.dameware.com/ If any of you admin any sizable AD and haven't heard of this tool, I'd strongly recommend trying it out. It is pretty amazing. Greg -- JRS [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please remove **X** to reply... Facts do not cease to exist just because they are ignored.
[H] asx to asf ?
anyway to convert a asx to asf so it can be imported into powerpoint ? thx fp -- Tallyho ! ]:8) Taglines below ! -- Why did I ever start this, anyway?
Re: [H] Running a task at shutdown in XP
What is the advantage of wizmo over the stock shutdown.exe? As to my earlier question about the logoff script happening before or after user processes are terminated I guess no one knows, so I will have to try it find out. Wayne Johnson wrote: At 02:39 PM 4/18/2006, Ben Ruset typed: I think you can create a logoff script in your local Group Policy. I'd create the script so it does all the backup stuff that you want then run GRC's wizmo shutdown as the last command line in the script. --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com
Re: [H] Running a task at shutdown in XP
At 10:38 PM 4/18/2006, warpmedia typed: What is the advantage of wizmo over the stock shutdown.exe? One is written by MSFT the other can use the ! as an argument that forces the command such as wizmo shutdown! aka as wizmo shutdown damnit. ;-) --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com
Re: [H] Running a task at shutdown in XP
At 10:38 PM 4/18/2006, warpmedia typed: As to my earlier question about the logoff script happening before or after user processes are terminated I guess no one knows, so I will have to try it find out. Excerpts from http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/shutdown/base/about_system_shutdown.asp All file-system buffers are flushed to the disk Logging off stops all processes associated with the security context of the process that called the exit function, logs the current user off the system http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/shutdown/base/shutting_down.asp Most scripts are associated with users logging off which happens before Winders shutting down to a certain extent you can tell a script when to run with RSOP_ScriptPolicySetting http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/policy/policy/rsop_scriptpolicysetting.asp. This is not to say I wouldn't be interested in seeing what your test results yield. --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com
