backup software recommendations?

2008-07-12 Thread Alex Dean
I need backup software for a home network. Mix of Linux and OSX machines. Will be using an external HDD for backup media. The backup server will run on one of the OSX machines, since it's the only non-laptop I have. I'm mainly looking for something that's easy to configure and has minimal

Re: backup software recommendations?

2008-07-12 Thread Matrix Mole
On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 10:35 AM, Alex Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need backup software for a home network. Mix of Linux and OSX machines. Will be using an external HDD for backup media. The backup server will run on one of the OSX machines, since it's the only non-laptop I have. I'm

Re: Spy Bill Debate Comes to an End

2008-07-12 Thread Micah DesJardins
IANAL! There seems to be some confusion about Ex Post Facto laws and the constitution. All the interpretations I've read basically say you cannot prosecute someone for something that was previously legal that they did, that is now illegal. This in no way prohibits the government from making

Re: backup software recommendations?

2008-07-12 Thread Alex Dean
Matrix Mole wrote: On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 10:35 AM, Alex Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need backup software for a home network. Mix of Linux and OSX machines. Will be using an external HDD for backup media. The backup server will run on one of the OSX machines, since it's the only

Re: backup software recommendations?

2008-07-12 Thread Michael March
I don't have the link now but search for 'jwz rsync' on Google and he has a good plan for doing simple backups with rsync. -- march -Original Message- From: Alex Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2008 11:35:43 To: Main PLUG discussion listplug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us

Re: backup software recommendations?

2008-07-12 Thread Joseph Sinclair
I ended up using DAR for a backup I needed to do to a 500G USB drive. It took roughly 28 hours (USB isn't a very good filesystem interface, especially for 400G of backup data...), but it worked fairly well. Below is the command I ran (from /, and after dropping the system into single user

Re: Tee Shirts?

2008-07-12 Thread Lisa Kachold
A Hopi Kachina penguin, while a great idea, might be construed as cultural theft and misuse of sacred traditional people's symbols? And now that one appraises it critically, the whole global warming, endangered penguin situation might lead one to develop a new symbol, since everything is going

Re: Tee Shirts?

2008-07-12 Thread koder
I like the Penguin in the Desert myself. Harold -Original Message- From: Lisa Kachold [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Main PLUG discussion list plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To: Main PLUG discussion list plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us Subject: Re: Tee

Re: backup software recommendations?

2008-07-12 Thread koder
I like Joseph's use of NULL to avoid backing up tmp files. Here is my rsync script for backing up a small home network: # ## the line for wiki must be run as root ## ### ## Start script here: ##