Re: Does anyone have something they'd like to present for this month?

2012-09-06 Thread Stuart Jansen
On Thu, 2012-09-06 at 16:10 -0600, Steve Meyers wrote: > Our meeting is next Wednesday, and I haven't planned ahead. Does anyone > have anything they could present on somewhat short notice? I'll have to double check my schedule, but if enough people are interested I could probably discuss Chef.

Re: Looking for a server rack

2012-09-06 Thread Gabriel Gunderson
On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 5:57 PM, Thomas S Hatch wrote: > I thought I would ask here, primarily because I know that a few guys on > here have posted server racks for sale recently. I am looking for a full > 42U or half rack (full is preferred) and it does not need to be enclosed, > it is for a serve

Re: What does everyone think of Fog?

2012-09-06 Thread Tod Hansmann
On 9/6/2012 12:10 PM, Samuel Morales wrote: > I've been looking for Symantec Ghost clones and found Fog. I've only tested > it on virtual machines, but it seems to work pretty well. Has anyone else > used and what's your experience been like? Are there any other Ghost clones > that you might recomm

Does anyone have something they'd like to present for this month?

2012-09-06 Thread Steve Meyers
Our meeting is next Wednesday, and I haven't planned ahead. Does anyone have anything they could present on somewhat short notice? Actually, I thought someone had said they might be able to present, but I don't recall who it was. If this is true, I apologize for my faulty memory and lack of f

Re: /dev owner as current user?

2012-09-06 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, 6 Sep 2012 15:16:51 -0600 "S. Dale Morrey" wrote: > I'm using lubuntu precise. I've noticed whenever I plugin anything to > USB that it mounts to /dev/ttyUSBn but the device is always owned by > root. > Is there anyway to make it default to ownership to the currently > logged in user? O

Re: /dev owner as current user?

2012-09-06 Thread Jessie Adan Morris
On a lot of modern linux distros you can use UDev to do this. For example, on my Ubuntu box I have the following line in "/etc/udev/rules.d/60-galaxy- s3.rules" for my Galaxy SIII: SUBSYSTEM=="usb", SYSFS{idVendor}=="04e8", SYSFS{idProduct}=="6601", MODE="0666" On Thursday, September 06, 2012

/dev owner as current user?

2012-09-06 Thread S. Dale Morrey
Hello, I'm using lubuntu precise. I've noticed whenever I plugin anything to USB that it mounts to /dev/ttyUSBn but the device is always owned by root. Is there anyway to make it default to ownership to the currently logged in user? Otherwise I have to remember to chown each time I plug in a new

Re: What does everyone think of Fog?

2012-09-06 Thread Barry Roberts
On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 12:10 PM, Samuel Morales wrote: > Are there any other Ghost clones > that you might recommend? > > -- > Sam Morales > IT > Aquaveo > > I've used parted magic a couple of times with great success on windows machines: http://sourceforge.net/projects/partedmagic/ The last tim

Re: What does everyone think of Fog?

2012-09-06 Thread Corey Edwards
On 09/06/2012 12:10 PM, Samuel Morales wrote: > I've been looking for Symantec Ghost clones and found Fog. I've only tested > it on virtual machines, but it seems to work pretty well. Has anyone else > used and what's your experience been like? Are there any other Ghost clones > that you might reco

Re: What does everyone think of Fog?

2012-09-06 Thread Jeff Nyman
I use PING (PartImage is not Ghost). Seems to work well for me. On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 12:26 PM, Eric Olsen wrote: > On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 12:19 PM, Jonathan Duncan < > jonat...@bluesunhosting.com> wrote: > > > dd ? > > > > unless I'm mistaken, dd does a sector-by-sector copy, whereas Ghost (un

Re: What does everyone think of Fog?

2012-09-06 Thread Jonathan Duncan
On 06 Sep 2012, at 12:38, Joel Finlinson wrote: > On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 12:19 PM, Jonathan Duncan < > jonat...@bluesunhosting.com> wrote: > >> >> On 06 Sep 2012, at 12:10, Samuel Morales wrote: >> >>> I've been looking for Symantec Ghost clones and found Fog. I've only >> tested >>> it on vir

Re: What does everyone think of Fog?

2012-09-06 Thread Joel Finlinson
On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 12:19 PM, Jonathan Duncan < jonat...@bluesunhosting.com> wrote: > > On 06 Sep 2012, at 12:10, Samuel Morales wrote: > > > I've been looking for Symantec Ghost clones and found Fog. I've only > tested > > it on virtual machines, but it seems to work pretty well. Has anyone el

Re: What does everyone think of Fog?

2012-09-06 Thread Eric Olsen
On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 12:19 PM, Jonathan Duncan < jonat...@bluesunhosting.com> wrote: > dd ? > unless I'm mistaken, dd does a sector-by-sector copy, whereas Ghost (unless told otherwise) does a file-by-file copy. I've used CloneZilla in the past, but only for small personal projects, never for

Re: What does everyone think of Fog?

2012-09-06 Thread Jonathan Duncan
On 06 Sep 2012, at 12:10, Samuel Morales wrote: > I've been looking for Symantec Ghost clones and found Fog. I've only tested > it on virtual machines, but it seems to work pretty well. Has anyone else > used and what's your experience been like? Are there any other Ghost clones > that you might

Re: cloud archival data storage

2012-09-06 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, 6 Sep 2012 11:50:12 -0600 Merrill Oveson wrote: > 3) Storage method. You make a request to get your data, then it takes > 3 to 5 hours. Can you look thru your data before you choose to > download something? Maybe that's why it's called Glacier. Not a good name for a computer product.

What does everyone think of Fog?

2012-09-06 Thread Samuel Morales
I've been looking for Symantec Ghost clones and found Fog. I've only tested it on virtual machines, but it seems to work pretty well. Has anyone else used and what's your experience been like? Are there any other Ghost clones that you might recommend? -- Sam Morales IT Aquaveo /* PLUG: http://pl

Re: cloud archival data storage

2012-09-06 Thread Lloyd Brown
While I've recently become a big fan of crashplan, it's more of a backup service, not an archival service. The difference is subtle, but significant: https://www.computerworld.com/s/article/103152/Backup_vs._archiving_It_pays_to_know_the_difference Lloyd Brown Systems Administrator Fulton Superc

Re: cloud archival data storage

2012-09-06 Thread Jonathan Duncan
On 06 Sep 2012, at 11:50, Merrill Oveson wrote: > Anybody know of a good Cloud Archival Data Solution? > CrashPlan (http://www.crashplan.com/) /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */

cloud archival data storage

2012-09-06 Thread Merrill Oveson
Pluggers: I was excited about Amazon Glacier, but after reading about it - not so much. I love Amazon s3! What concerns me about Glacier: 1) No tool to upload data - users need to be able to do easily - S3 has about a billion different tools, 3rd party add-on, etc. I suppose Glacier will too i