speaking of which (I have kimsufi) I think I need to have tidy up :)
Alloc PE / Size 454400 / 1.73 TiB Free PE / Size 19842 / 77.51 GiB How could I EVER use up the best part of a 2TB disk!!! Regards, Phill. On 9 May 2013 19:51, William Anderson <ne...@well.com> wrote: > On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 6:46 PM, Gareth France <gareth.fra...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > I'll be using a desktop for the duration the machine is away. I have been > > looking at incremental backup solutions. What I'd like to do is setup a > > system where it connects to an FTP server and only backs up the data that > > has changed since last backup. Something I would trigger rather than > > scheduled as I'm on mobile broadband and would need to do backups > whenever I > > was near a proper broadband connection. I've found quite a few solutions > > which 'sort of' do this as I'd like but most don't cut it and some simply > > refused to connect to my server. Do you have any suggestions which may > help? > > Don't use FTP unless you plan to pre-encrypt the backup first (since > you will be sending the data in the clear; duplicity will do this > using gpg as the pre-upload/store encrypt mechanism). If you can > backup to somewhere that does ssh+rsync, use rsnapshot. Both are > packaged within Ubuntu. rsnapshot prefers to run automatically from > cron (/etc/cron.d/rsnapshot) but you can run it manually if you > prefer. > > You can get a cheap Ubuntu server from kimsufi.co.uk (OVH) for a > tenner a month that has 0.5TiB storage and 5TiB/mo traffic allowance, > ample as a backup/DR solution. > > > Bad customer service is something which really winds me up and you have > hit > > the nail on the head there. This is the customer service equivalent of > > painting by numbers. The collection has been arranged now and fingers > > I wasn't suggesting you were receiving "bad customer service", I was > suggesting you were receiving *cheap* customer service, with limited > scope to move beyond the standard support script. > > Just out of interest, how have you handled this hard disc issue? > > > crossed they will fix it. I know that my laptops always take quite a > > pounding but I can only think of one other which faired this badly, made > by > > a company called Hi-Grade. I really don't expect a machine to be virging > on > > unusable after only 8 months, regardless of how cheap it is. > > You're surely aware of the consumer maxim, "you get what you pay for". > Granted this is a personal preference within my own realm of income > and affordability, but this is why I usually wait until I have enough > cash to buy an Apple computer. The build quality is usually stunning, > and the level of support is unsurpassed. If you're going to > buy/accept a system manufactured by a boxshifter like Packard Bell, > don't expect stellar levels of support. > > In my experience, the cheaper the laptop, the less reliability you > should expect from it, and the less support you should expect from the > manufacturer. I have literally kicked the heck out of my MacBook Pros > and they have all lived to tell the tale (the slight dent on the lid > of one notwithstanding). I've also suffered maladies such as dead > GPUs on the mainboard, and they have been dealt with inside of 90 > minutes (albeit under warranty with the highest tier of support > pre-purchased [ProCare]). > > You get what you pay for. > > -n > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ > > -- > <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/>https://wiki.ubuntu.com/phillw >
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