Hello,
I'm looking into some hardware to buy to start testing few
Freedombox-related
ideas. I came to the conclusion that having an hard drive inside the box
is a must
for the following reasons:
1) Storage space: I need lots of GB to store photos, etc.
2) Wear: I'm not very comfortable on hav
On 11-04-29 at 07:10am, Lorenzo wrote:
> I'm looking into some hardware to buy to start testing few
> Freedombox-related ideas. I came to the conclusion that having an hard
> drive inside the box is a must for the following reasons:
>
> 1) Storage space: I need lots of GB to store photos, etc.
>
On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 10:53 PM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> Those are good arguments for using harddrive instead of flash drive, but
> not for requiring it to be inside same box as the computer.
>
> Here are a few arguments for putting the harddrive separate from the
> computer, attached with a U
On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 2:10 PM, Lorenzo wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm looking into some hardware to buy to start testing few
> Freedombox-related
> ideas. I came to the conclusion that having an hard drive inside the box is
> a must
You might look at the GoFlex or Dockstar, people have gotten Debian
r
On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 6:25 PM, Sandy Harris wrote:
>
> Yes, but if possible e-sata is preferable to USB attachment.
> It is faster and, unlike USB, it supports the SATA erase
> commands.
>
The primary problem I see with eSATA ports is that they aren't USB
ports. USB ports are like Velcro: You ca
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On 05/07/2011 08:10 PM, Robinson Tryon wrote:
> USB-connected devices, especially storage devices, will give us a good
> way to help our users extract data off of their Freedomboxes when
> something goes catastrophically, Jellorifically wrong with the
Fantastic idea, and it seems it could easily be accomplished with
tools that are very common...
LUKS for encryption of backup drive and rsync to do the backup:
rsync -avc --progress --delete /home/fb/files /media/fb-bak/
Or just use dd to image the FB data partition to any external drive
after e
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On 05/09/2011 01:53 PM, Jonathan Zeppettini wrote:
> LUKS for encryption of backup drive and rsync to do the backup:
>
> rsync -avc --progress --delete /home/fb/files /media/fb-bak/
rdiff-backup also works quite well for this.
> Or just use dd to i
On 11-05-09 at 02:40pm, The Doctor wrote:
> On 05/09/2011 01:53 PM, Jonathan Zeppettini wrote:
>
> > LUKS for encryption of backup drive and rsync to do the backup:
> >
> > rsync -avc --progress --delete /home/fb/files /media/fb-bak/
>
> rdiff-backup also works quite well for this.
>
> > Or jus
On 05/09/2011 02:40 PM, The Doctor wrote:
> The utility would have to ensure that any running processes which kept
> files open (like a database server) would be shut down prior to the
> backup run, and then started back up when it was complete.
Would this be a useful place for something like LVM
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