Re: [uug] Backup Solution

2008-04-14 Thread Daniel
I have been pleased with RESTORE: http://sourceforge.net/projects/restore/ -Daniel On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 7:58 PM, Alex Esplin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 5:07 PM, Mark Gardner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > PS I think the UUG is the only LUG that understands how impor

Re: [uug] Backup Solution

2008-04-14 Thread Alex Esplin
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 5:07 PM, Mark Gardner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > PS I think the UUG is the only LUG that understands how important WAF > (wife acceptance factor) is in a home network. I saw a funny acronym for this the other day on a different forum: SWMBO (She Who Must Be Obeyed) --

Re: [uug] External USB Drive no partitions

2008-04-14 Thread Brian Phillips
Mark Gardner wrote: > On 4/13/08, Brian Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Nathan wrote: >>> BEFORE YOU TRY ANYTHING do yourself a a favor and copy the entire >>> flash drive contents to a file. And then make a copy of that file. >>> Then you'll always have something you can do forensics on.

Re: [uug] Backup Solution

2008-04-14 Thread Mark Gardner
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 5:23 PM, Josh Draper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Have you looked into bacula? Very flexible system, but may suffer from the > complexity problem. > > You also might want to be aware that a lot of the writable optical media > simply fails to work after 3-5 years. This has

Re: [uug] Backup Solution

2008-04-14 Thread Josh Draper
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 3:06 PM, Mark Gardner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok, in light of my USB Drive failure/scare/recovory I've decided to > add another layer to my backup solution. (If it's not coppied twice it > might as well be gone). > > Here's what I'm looking for. A little utility/progr

[uug] Backup Solution

2008-04-14 Thread Mark Gardner
Ok, in light of my USB Drive failure/scare/recovory I've decided to add another layer to my backup solution. (If it's not coppied twice it might as well be gone). Here's what I'm looking for. A little utility/program/suite whatever that I can point at what I want to backup and have it create back

Re: [uug] External USB Drive no partitions

2008-04-14 Thread Mark Gardner
On 4/13/08, Brian Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nathan wrote: > > BEFORE YOU TRY ANYTHING do yourself a a favor and copy the entire > > flash drive contents to a file. And then make a copy of that file. > > Then you'll always have something you can do forensics on. :) > > > > dd if=/dev/s