[CS-FSLUG] Would someone take pity on me?

[Ruth Marlene Friesen]

On June 25, 2005 11:25 pm, Nathan T. wrote:
> I've always found backups on the same computer not to be very
> dependable, burning to CDs or DVDs is a nice cheap alternative to this
> but with blanking the disks and burning them again you soon find it
> takes a long time to do backups, especially if you have to filter
> through files so you only get the ones you want.
>
True!

> The best solution I've ever come across, and this is what is done in
> schools, is to have a file server. It doesn't matter whether you
> upgrade the OS on your computer, or whether it dies, your important
> files are stored on the backup server which hopefully has RAID 1 with
> two or better yet, three drives.
>
Oh..., Nathan. That sounds terrific. I do happen to have this older computer 
here. Doesn't have an ethernet card, but I learned a lot on it, after the 
Lord provided it in 1999. I was going to leave Win98 on it so I could 
continue to use my Brothers Keeper for my genealogy database.

Thing is, now I have to learn what a RAID 1 is and how I would connect the 
computers. It's sitting an inch from my main computer, but how would you 
connect them?

The one I'm using now (also a gift from the Lord last year) has two hard 
drives. The first, 10 GB has Windows on it, but I can only reach down into it 
to fetch files from within Mandrake as the Explorer.exe file is broken or 
located on a bad spot. I tried copying that file from the old computer last 
night, but "I wasn't allowed..." to replace the broken one. I'm going to 
delete the whole thing after I've finished backing up my files, and then I 
can install another Linux program to try out, or Win98 again. I had thought 
of saving a partition for backup storage.

Is that considered good enough?


> The server alternative is expensive, but if you happen to get an older
> computer you don't think is good for much and you have some spare hard
> drives around, consider putting a light Linux distribution on it.
> After that you just need to set up your /etc/hosts.allow and
> /etc/hosts.deny files to block anything that isn't coming from inside
> the network, then just disable unnecessary services ("daemons") and
> you're set. Setting up network servers should be fairly
> straightforward with a distribution like SUSE which was designed with
> that kind of thing in mind.
>
Ohmm. Sounds so simple. You're sure it's that easy? I do have a SuSE live CD 
I'd burned, but I've considered getting the full works. Would it work with 
Mandrake 9.1?

> Anyway its just an idea.
>
Thanks, Nathan. It's an idea worth considering!

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