you might look into amanda for your backups, it's quite nice.  also, ask
yourself "Can I re-rip(download?) this if I lose it?", before you bother
wasting money on drive space to back it up.  that's enough OT for now
though~~

On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 5:02 PM, <cac...@quantum-sci.com> wrote:

> On Thu 20 January 2011 15:57:22 Christ Schlacta wrote:
> > if ipmi is unfirewalled, any user who can jack into an open port can just
> > use ipmi.  that's not good.  you should segregate ipmi to a dedicated
> vlan
> > at the switch if possible.  iptables rules are probably not the best way
> to
> > go about securing this situation.
>
> I know, but the switch is in my home.  Not worried about it here.
>
> See, my LAN has the HTPC, my work laptop, and the backup server.  I need
> the backup server as the HTPC has terabytes of my favorite movies & shows,
> and nowadays it's not practical to back up to anything but disk.  I've built
> a little SuperMicro mobo in a cube chassis with a SuperMicro 3x5 drive
> carrier, to put in the garage for backing up, in case of theft or fire of my
> other machines.
>
> I got the mobo with IPMI, which is a wonderful improvement.  I've set IPMI
> to a different class C in case my main LAN ever gets broken into from
> outside, and on my work laptop that class C is a subnet of the wlan
> interface.  I wasn't able to make that subnet get through Shorewall until I
> set it up in /etc/network/interfaces with the 'up  ip' command, as in the
> Shorewall wiki.  Now it works fine. (Thanks for pitching in Tom)
>
> I've had a terrible time with rsync and btrfs, but now seem to have them
> under control as well, and may just have a fine automated system going.
>  Still testing.  Next will be setting the backup server up to record my
> security cameras with ZoneMinder!
>
>
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