Re: Windows front end to a backup utility?

2000-05-19 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Thu, 18 May 2000, jim t.p. ryan wrote: > Any suggestions as how one could back this machine up? I don't want to > leave any of the client machines up at night. All the shares will be on > the same physical device. I could put a tape drive in the Linux box. So > the backup would have to be e

Re: Windows front end to a backup utility?

2000-05-19 Thread Derek Martin
On Fri, 19 May 2000, Kevin D. Clark wrote: > I haven't read the other book mentioned in this thread, but I'd say > that you can't go wrong with reading AEleen's. I've read (at least good sized chunks of) both; both are good, but I thought Nemeth was better. It doesn't go into as much detail as

Re: Windows front end to a backup utility?

2000-05-19 Thread Derek Martin
On Fri, 19 May 2000, Paul Lussier wrote: > > In a message dated: Thu, 18 May 2000 15:47:09 EDT > Benjamin Scott said: > > > It is a good book, although it is a bit dated, and pretty much > completely >ignores the free Unixes. :( Sure, it kind of pre-dates > Linux, the BSDs have >been around a

Re: Windows front end to a backup utility?

2000-05-19 Thread Paul Lussier
In a message dated: Fri, 19 May 2000 11:36:48 EDT "Kevin D. Clark" said: > >Paul Lussier writes: > >> AEleen's book spends entirely too much time in Sun/Linux land, and not >> enough time covering the general basics. > >I must politely disagree. Okay :) I also must admit, I've only read the fi

Re: Windows front end to a backup utility?

2000-05-19 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Paul Lussier writes: > AEleen's book spends entirely too much time in Sun/Linux land, and not enough > time covering the general basics. I must politely disagree. AEleen's books (I've owned both editions) have helped get me through sysadmin problems on AIX, HPUX, IRIX and a tiny few problems

Re: Windows front end to a backup utility?

2000-05-19 Thread Paul Lussier
In a message dated: Thu, 18 May 2000 15:47:09 EDT Benjamin Scott said: > It is a good book, although it is a bit dated, and pretty much completely >ignores the free Unixes. :( Sure, it kind of pre-dates Linux, the BSDs have >been around a lot longer. For commercial Unix systems, though, you'

Re: Windows front end to a backup utility?

2000-05-18 Thread Ferenc Tamas Gyurcsan
Hi, >Any suggestions as how one could back this machine up? Following up on this question...I read about the Logical Volume Manager project some time ago. Actually, I read the Howto of it. My question is if anybody has tried it, and how suitable it is for production. I mean I wouldn't love to us

Re: Windows front end to a backup utility?

2000-05-18 Thread k1vp
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< On 5/18/00, 4:29:48 PM, "jim t.p. ryan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote regarding Re: Windows front end to a backu

Re: Windows front end to a backup utility?

2000-05-18 Thread Karl J. Runge
On Thu, 18 May 2000, "jim t.p. ryan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyway, so I don't reinvent the wheel, does anybody know of a web based > interface to a backup program? Here's one: Backup linuxbox Seriously, you may find something like that (amanda?) but it is somewhat dicey becaus

Re: Windows front end to a backup utility?

2000-05-18 Thread jim t.p. ryan
u, 18 May 2000 16:27:59 -0400 (EDT) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Windows front end to a backup utility? jim t.p. ryan writes: [please wrap your lines at around 75 columns] > But here is the problem that I have. This application is one that I > want

Re: Windows front end to a backup utility?

2000-05-18 Thread Kevin D. Clark
jim t.p. ryan writes: [please wrap your lines at around 75 columns] > But here is the problem that I have. This application is one that I > want to put on a machine that, in all other respects, has a very > intuitive web interface. One adds users, shares, printers etc via > this. It would be

Re: Windows front end to a backup utility?

2000-05-18 Thread jim t.p. ryan
EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Windows front end to a backup utility? On Thu, 18 May 2000, jim t.p. ryan wrote: > Picture a small office. All client machines are winsdows based (NTWK or Win9x). >One Linux based file/print server. People will use this as a common share as well as >pers

Re: Windows front end to a backup utility?

2000-05-18 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Thu, 18 May 2000, Derek Martin wrote: > There is a good section on data archiving in Evi Nemeth's (et. al.) > _Unix_System_Administration_Handbook_. I suggest you give it a good > once-over. > > Note to all GNHLUGers: Based on the number of times Paul and I have > mentioned this book, in or

Re: Windows front end to a backup utility?

2000-05-18 Thread Derek Martin
On Thu, 18 May 2000, jim t.p. ryan wrote: > Picture a small office. All client machines are winsdows based (NTWK or Win9x). >One Linux based file/print server. People will use this as a common share as well as >personal shares. No monitor keyboard or mouse on the box. Configured and manage

Re: Windows front end to a backup utility?

2000-05-18 Thread Paul Lussier
In a message dated: Thu, 18 May 2000 11:23:49 PDT "jim t.p. ryan" said: >True, and I'll have to read about rsync, but I was hoping for something a litt >le more "traditional" in terms of rotation and off-site storage. Well, can you log into the linux box via telnet, rlogin, ssh, etc? If you ca

Re: Windows front end to a backup utility?

2000-05-18 Thread jim t.p. ryan
> Picture a small office. All client machines are winsdows based (NTWK or Win9x). >One Linux based file/print server. People will use this as a common share as well as >personal shares. No monitor keyboard or mouse on the box. Configured and managed >from a browser. Sounds like a customer

Windows front end to a backup utility?

2000-05-18 Thread jim t.p. ryan
Picture a small office. All client machines are winsdows based (NTWK or Win9x). One Linux based file/print server. People will use this as a common share as well as personal shares. No monitor keyboard or mouse on the box. Configured and managed from a browser. Any suggestions as how one