Re: No-brainer backup from Linux to space on remote drive?

2012-02-14 Thread Stephen Ryan
On Tue 14 Feb 2012 05:06:24 PM EST, Alan Johnson wrote: > On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 4:47 PM, Stephen Ryan > mailto:step...@sryanfamily.info>> wrote: > > On 02/14/2012 03:16 PM, Ralph A. Mack wrote: > > I don't want to take a lot of time studying the problem or > fiddling with a lot of op

Re: No-brainer backup from Linux to space on remote drive?

2012-02-14 Thread Lloyd Kvam
On Tue, 2012-02-14 at 15:16 -0500, Ralph A. Mack wrote: > Backup for me is a practical necessity rather than a life project, so > I want something that just works, errs on the side of caution, doesn't > require continuing attention and maintenance, etc. I use rdiff-backup. The current files are i

Re: No-brainer backup from Linux to space on remote drive?

2012-02-14 Thread Ralph A. Mack
Thanks, all, I looked through the suggestions. Remote backup turned out to be something different than what I had in mind. BackupPc is expected to sit on a centralized server and so, it would seem, is rsnapshot, or at least rsnapshot is using Linux file system properties to optimize storage.

Re: No-brainer backup from Linux to space on remote drive?

2012-02-14 Thread Ted Roche
On 02/14/2012 04:38 PM, Alan Johnson wrote: > Another trick I've learned is to make sure you have stable/static IPAs: > That's India Pale Ales, right? I was keeping up with your acronyms up 'til then... -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com __

Re: No-brainer backup from Linux to space on remote drive?

2012-02-14 Thread Alan Johnson
On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 4:47 PM, Stephen Ryan wrote: > On 02/14/2012 03:16 PM, Ralph A. Mack wrote: > > I don't want to take a lot of time studying the problem or fiddling with > a lot of options. I'd rather do my creative stuff than spend my life doing > IT. (I switched from Gentoo to Ubuntu for

Re: No-brainer backup from Linux to space on remote drive?

2012-02-14 Thread Stephen Ryan
On 02/14/2012 03:16 PM, Ralph A. Mack wrote: > Hi folks, > > I just had to replace my backup drive for my main development system here at > the house and I replaced it with a 2 TB WD network drive. Now that all my > systems can see it, I'd like to do reasonable backups for all the systems, > inc

Re: No-brainer backup from Linux to space on remote drive?

2012-02-14 Thread Alan Johnson
On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 3:57 PM, Shawn O'Shea wrote: > I've heard good things about BackupPC, but never personally tried it. It > supports Linux/Win/OSX, and is designed for backing up to servers (your > network drive in this case). It has a Web GUI. > http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/info.html >

Re: No-brainer backup from Linux to space on remote drive?

2012-02-14 Thread Shawn O'Shea
On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 3:16 PM, Ralph A. Mack wrote: > Hi folks, > > I just had to replace my backup drive for my main development system here > at the house and I replaced it with a 2 TB WD network drive. Now that all > my systems can see it, I'd like to do reasonable backups for all the > syste

Re: No-brainer backup from Linux to space on remote drive?

2012-02-14 Thread Bill Freeman
The solutions that some to mind are: amanda tar bzip2 scp rsync All require configuration. A problem with rsync is that if you back up the system after it has lost or corrupted files, then the rsync copy no longer has those files or good versions of those files either. It is possible t

No-brainer backup from Linux to space on remote drive?

2012-02-14 Thread Ralph A. Mack
Hi folks, I just had to replace my backup drive for my main development system here at the house and I replaced it with a 2 TB WD network drive. Now that all my systems can see it, I'd like to do reasonable backups for all the systems, including my Linux boxes. (With 2 TB, I'm not too concerned

Boston Linux Meeting Wednesday, February 15, 2012 - Full disk encryption

2012-02-14 Thread Jerry Feldman
When: February 15 2012 7PM (6:30PM for Q&A) Topic: Full Disk Encryption Moderator: Ned Harvey, Bill Ricker, me Location: MIT Building E51, Room 335* * please note room change. I apologize for the late meeting notice. Summary An informal discussion of disk encryption and encryption pr

Boston Linux Meeting Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - Security with Snort and OSSEC

2012-02-14 Thread Jerry Feldman
When: February 15 2012 7PM (6:30PM for Q&A) Topic: Full Disk Encryption Moderator: Ned Harvey, Bill Ricker, me Location: MIT Building E51, Room 335* * please note room change. I apologize for the late meeting notice. Summary An informal discussion of disk encryption and encryption pr