On 11/15/05, Michael ODonnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ...in which the Open Source development model makes an appearance:
> http://www.gladwell.com/2005/2005_09_05_a_bakeoff.html
When I saw the subject line, my first thought was of HTTP protocol
state mechanisms.
I think I need a vacatio
On 11/15/05, Bill McGonigle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is 'target' on a different filesystem?
In the test I ran with that message, no. I just repeated said test
across multiple filesystems. Same behavior -- it appears to preserve
hard links onto the target filesystem. That is on Whitebox 3.
...in which the Open Source development model makes an appearance:
http://www.gladwell.com/2005/2005_09_05_a_bakeoff.html
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Jim Kuzdrall wrote:
However, I hear CD-ROM is unreliable even over 12 months, so that's
out.
I have heard this too. Does anyone know the physical mechanism
responsible for the deterioration? I seem to associate the tale with a
study at a library, and the CDROMs being scratched by handl
> However, I hear CD-ROM is unreliable even over 12 months, so that's
> out.
I have heard this too. Does anyone know the physical mechanism
responsible for the deterioration? I seem to associate the tale with a
study at a library, and the CDROMs being scratched by handling. If
that is th
On Nov 15, 2005, at 17:23, Ben Scott wrote:
$ mkdir target
Is 'target' on a different filesystem?
Last experience I had with this was on an FC3 with a disk used for
rsnapshot backups - the hardlinks on that disk represent ~15 copies of
the data, and when copying this filesystem to another d
Brian Chabot wrote:
Take a PC, add a removable HDD enclosure, and buy a couple extra caddies
to go with it. Add appropriately sized HDD's.
Insert removable HDD. Mount it. Mirrordir to it. Unmount it. Remove
and store safely.
Lather. Rinse. Repeat.
I do my backups at home in two stage
On 11/15/05, Bill McGonigle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> cp -a will ruin your hardlinks.
"cp -a" preserves hardlinks in the version *I* have.
$ rpm -qf `which cp`
coreutils-4.5.3-26
$ mkdir testdir
$ cd testdir
$ mkdir source
$ cd source
$ touch foo
$ ln foo bar
$ cat bar
$ echo hello > foo
$ c
For any of you who occasionally manage to accidentally do something
stupid to one of your systems (as I did today) I highly recommend
keeping a statically linked copy of busybox (combined core system
tools, e.g. ls, cp, mv) tucked away somewhere on your root filesystem.
:-) I was able to recover
I help run the domain HowsYourHealth.Org
Unfortunately the domain was deleted from the root servers on Friday.
These are the status lines from whois:
>
Domain ID:D34496398-LROR
Domain Name:HOWSYOURHEALTH.ORG
Created On:12-Sep-2000 14:43:19 UTC
Last Updat
On Nov 15, 2005, at 15:50, Ed Lawson wrote:
Just to clarify, when you say turn it off, you mean simply
turning off the hotswap drive tray before you take it out and
plugging the next one in and then turning the drive on. Right?
Exactly right. After unmounting, the drive/sled is still powered
On Tue, 15 Nov 2005 15:34:15 -0500
Bill McGonigle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I use (3) 300GB IDE hard drives, mounted into IDE 'hotswap'
sleds which
> slide into a firewire case.
>
> Backup procedure:
> 1) umount the current disk (disk a)
> 2) turn it off
> 3) swap sleds (disk a comes out, di
On Tue, 15 Nov 2005 14:42:11 -0500
Ted Roche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> What's the current thinking on backup systems for small
businesses? I
> have a client with a 6-year-old PC and tape drive, still
running
> (tested and verified) tapes on rotation.
It all depends of the size of the ba
On Nov 15, 2005, at 14:42, Ted Roche wrote:
Anyone else have a different idea for backups or is tape still the
thing?
I use (3) 300GB IDE hard drives, mounted into IDE 'hotswap' sleds which
slide into a firewire case.
Backup procedure:
1) umount the current disk (disk a)
2) turn it off
3) s
Ted Roche wrote:
> Anyone else have a different idea for backups or is tape still the
> thing?
I've set up tape backups for customers in the past... PITA.
I've not tried it yet, but I have an idea for one...
With the price of hard drives these days, you might as well at least
consider a HDD b
If 256MB is big enough, then rsync + dirvish could be worth considering.
You'd need enough bandwidth to push the data to an off-site location
running dirvish. Dirvish uses hard-links to provide daily snap shot
directories where unchanged files are linked into as many consecutive
snapshots as possi
From: Thomas Charron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [Add to Address Book] [View Source]
> I agree with Ken on this one. If you're looking for a plop down, configure,
> and just run server, eJabberd is the best open source solution.
I found that after having deployed the Jabberd v1 a
Speaking, as Ben was, of backups
What's the current thinking on backup systems for small businesses? I
have a client with a 6-year-old PC and tape drive, still running
(tested and verified) tapes on rotation. Is there a better solution
these days? Years ago, I thought CD-R or DVD would
Hrm, another project that I just found, and looks pretty nice for an open project
http://winprinthylafax.sourceforge.net/
Just print it to the fax, and it asks for information such as fax number, etc..
Thomas
On 11/13/05, Dan Jenkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Thomas Charron wrote:> On
Yes, the fax number can be.. Well, blech.. ;-)
I've been wanting too see someone try out http://www.ifax.com/content/view/36/88/
It actually serves as a fax service within the Microsoft Fax environment, so things like 'Send Fax From Word', etc, would be directed thru the server itself.
Bill McGonigle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> If you don't trust the user to not copy the ssh key off the image (you
> mentioned honest users) and you're not using SELinux and you allow
> them root on their machines then you need a smart-card.
Let's just say that I believe them to be honest, but I
I agree with Ken on this one. If you're looking for a plop down, configure, and just run server, eJabberd is the best open source solution.
IF, and I say IF real loud, you need to do ANY sort of custom integration, i.e., external user authentication, rosters modified by external applciations
On Nov 15, 2005, at 12:49, Ben Scott wrote:
Or, for something simple like this,
cp -a /source /target/
cp -a will ruin your hardlinks.
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On 11/14/05, John Abreau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> After that, well, RAID protects you from a hardware failure; it's not a
> replacement for backups.
This cannot be over-emphasized. I've repeatedly had the argument
with clients/bosses/etc. about "Why do we need backups? We've got
redundant
On 11/15/05, Michael ODonnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> theoretically it should be possible to lay the {RAID,LVM,otherFT}
> metadata down on the disks such that any existing
> MBR,filesystem} bits remain untouched and the disk becomes
> usable as part of an FT config ...
Sure! Just use the e
On Nov 15, 2005, at 08:36, Michael ODonnell wrote:
theoretically it should be
possible to lay the {RAID,LVM,otherFT} metadata down on the disks
such that any existing {MBR,filesystem} bits remain untouched
and the disk becomes usable as part of an FT config
I bet this has something to do with
300GB drive $89 after $40 rebate at TigerDirect:
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1388892&Tab=5
Limit 1.
Seagate / 300GB / 7200 / 8MB / ATA-100 / 5-year warranty.
Also, make sure you have a boot CD that speaks RAID, in case you oops. :-)
--DTVZ
On 11/
On Nov 14, 2005, at 20:53, Paul Lussier wrote:
What I'm looking for is something that when an honest person leaves
the company, or switches out of a position where this type of access
is required, the card can then be passed on to another person without
necessitating the change of keys on all cu
>> perform an on-the-fly conversion from my vulnerable
>> single disk config to an FT config that brings that
>> second disk (hdc) into play without me needing to make
>> substantial changes to hda.
>
>No, that won't work; when you set up RAID or LVM on the
>disks, you'll lose all the data on the
On Nov 14, 2005, at 11:32 AM, Robert E. Anderson wrote:
We'll be going through all the initialization scripts and
configuration files starting with grub.conf on up through the
boot sequence to the application level.
THAT sounds like a great topic! Hope it went well.
_
> Should I just attempt to reinstall k3b ?
I would. Under GNU/Linux, it *shouldn't* lose packages or file or have a
lot of other issues that are common in the Windows world. But it
occasionally does have those issues.
When something "weird" like that goes on, my preference is to delete
On Nov 13, 2005, at 11:36 PM, Dan Jenkins wrote:
How does it determine the fax number to send to? Does it still try
to extract it from the document? The last testing I did had real
problems recognizing the fax number in the documents. The
formatting needed was too strict for my clients' need
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