I have never used rsnapshot. A friend of the last admin where I work originally wrote the rsync-backup script. The former admin and myself wrote the 'backup' script as a wrapper for the other one, to produce a report, etc. The script here also uses links to factor files which do not change, but only on a host level (it won't pick up that two files are the same between hosts and only backup one of them.)
We have explored switching to Backup PC for the easier file restores, but the instances in which we need to restore anything is so rare that it's not an issue. As a side note, we're using these scripts to backup nearly 3.6TB of data for the company, and I use it for about 500GB of my own.
Last, something I didn't mention above is the scripts have support for creating an off-site copy. The way currently implemented, we rotate USB drives weekly for the offline copy. These copies do not have the versioned data, only last night's complete copy, which is under 1TB (but just). It would be fairly trivial to add code to send to a remote data center, your largest limiting factor being bandwidth.
That's all you need. We even use a script to create versioned backups going back six months using perl as a wrapper.
Assuming the same paths, edit to your liking. I've made the scripts available at http://www.secure-computing.net/rsync/ if you're interested. It requires the system you're running the script for have root ssh access to the boxes it's backing up. We use password-less ssh keys for authentication.
The README file has the line I use in my crontab. I didn't write the script, but I've made a few modifications to it over the years.
And as we've all had drilled into our heads 'RAID is not backup.'
What the phrase means is that simply installing a RAID on a given system is not a backup for that system. It is still more than acceptable to use *another* system, with a RAID or not, as the backup for the original system. For years, we've been running one large systems with tens of disks in a large RAID array as our backup system, for the other systems. The point of backups is to have the data in more than one place, regardless of where that place is. DVD, tape, an external disk, etc.
Drobo, or something similar, would be a perfect device for a home backup server.
I've found Nagios and NagVis a solid solution. NagVis is a plugin/addon for Nagios which allows you to create a Heads-Up display with status information on your own network diagram. It has an interactive map, which is 100% customizable. When kept in a browser window, it will play a sound during an event and flash the icon for a host indicating the problem.
PNP adds graphing of performance data to Nagios. It allows you to click through the nagios interface directly to the graphs for a given host or process. It will graph anything that has performance data output.
Finally, Cacti is a great solution for things which you may not roll into your Nagios insallation. We use it for monitoring network bandwidth utilization, mostly.
I help develop for a health care website, which is used internally by large clinics, etc, in Minnesota. With a strong, persistent insistence on clients switching from IE to Firefox, we've got from ~97% of users using IE to this month's stats showing 48.4% using IE, 50.8% using Firefox. We've also been pushing notices that IE6 has been EOL'd by Microsoft, and given links to upgrade to IE7. this has seen that 48.4% of IE users to be split with 20.3% of total users using IE7 and only 28.1% still using IE6.
IMHO, it's been a quite successful campaign. I'm not a huge fan of IE, in general, but it's far easier to code for IE7 than IE6.
Openfire and the server, Spark is the client. http://igniterealtime.org./ We use it in healthcare where I work and it's pretty solid. Archiving is an optional module and works well.
For backups where I work, we've got a few different systems in place. We've done away with tape backups long ago, and our primary backup system is a disk-based system. Twelve drives in a RAID 6+0 for maximum availability and ability to recover from disk issues. This system keeps a daily snap shot from the past week, a weekly snap shot for the past month, and a monthly snap shot for the past six months. We then place the most recent daily snap shot on a USB external disk drive, which we carry off-site each day. This disk is encrypted and not connected to a network or otherwise available except physically.
This has worked well, and if the proverbial crap does hit the fan, we've got our off-site disk for last-chance recovery if the world comes to an end.
I spent a decade in the physical security realm, and I still own a small firm doing security systems, etc. I wanted to get in to IT as a Unix/BSD/Linux admin, so I started getting my name out there years ago. When an ideal job came up, I had a resume I was happy with, describing how my current and past positions would help me with my newly-sought position, whether there was any direct relation or not. From there, I showed some things to prove I could do it. I accepted a slight pay decrease to get my foot in the door with a clause that allowed for a large pay increase should I prove my worth. I've been working in my new IT career for over two years, and I got the large pay bump I sought.
This first thing you need to do is become a salesman. You need to learn how to sell yourself. If you're not confident, any prospective employer will figure that out. A good, solid resume will get you in the door for an interview, but you've got to demonstrate your ability.
Why can they do that? Because they didn't take stupid risks 10 years ago. I should know -- they wouldn't give me a home loan. The bank that did was first in line for a taxpayer bailout.
It's nice seeing blatant honesty! Very funny. I see you've not had a problem paying your internet and slashdot subscription fees.;)
This is a misconfiguration on their end. EV certificates, the ones that turn your address bar green and coax turtles into doing happy dances, are really expensive. It's my guess that they've either reused a certificate on another system, or one of their developers made a mistake in how the site and server cluster is configured. It's certainly something to complain about.
If you're ever in doubt about the validity of the certificate or security of a transaction, however, DON'T DO IT!. This goes for standing at an ATM in a shady neighborhood or doing business online.
Maybe it's a bit of a reach, but as soon as I saw mention of Adamo, I though Awesom-O. They should absolutely run Cartman as their spokesman for this...
There are two things that people jailbreak their phones for: Running software that Apple doesn't want on the phones (backgrounder, some emulators, tethering) and running software that was downloaded/purchased illegally.
How does one purchase software illegally? I mean, if you've purchased it, it's not illegal.
This would be good for people wanting to let their friends know where they are or for parents wanting to know where their children are at all times.
What it really means: This would be good for girlfriends wanting to know where their boyfriends are or for parents wanting to know where their children are at all times.
As long as you get the revenue sharing and such figured out, as is mentioned above, keep in mind we're heading deep into a recession, and jobs, alone, are valuable. Basically a 5-year guarantee of a job is kind of nice.
No, I think most people on this side of the pond are becoming whiney little kids. As was said above (somewhere), everyone expects blazing speeds, all the time, for almost no money at all. We've all come to expect everything for free (or close to it).
Read more about traffic shaping before you speak. Thanks
Try this. Take a LARGE file, and transfer it locally across your LAN. While you're doing that, try your VoIP, WoW, whatever. You may find it's a bit difficult. Throwing a random 'Read more about X so I sound smart, as if I've read about it,' doesn't mean anything. If you look heavily into corporate network infrastructure, I think you'll find a lot more traffic shaping going on that you think.
For the record, it's FLAMEBAIT, not FLAMEBATE. Learn how to spell, you ignorant ass.
Why is it that every form of bandwidth throttling is seen as evil? There are some good, legitimate, reasons for managing traffic flow across a network. While most of the pukes on Slashdot may be hugely inconvenienced by having their latest pirated copy of software X, or DVD rip of 'I love it in the ass' over BitTorrent slowed down, there are people who are trying to use the same pipes for more normal activity. Who cares if it takes an extra five or ten minutes to download that file. I'm much more annoyed when a VoIP call, or streaming video gets choppy.
Whether you mod me -1 Troll or -1 Flamebait or not, you know you agree with me, at least in part.
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I have never used rsnapshot. A friend of the last admin where I work originally wrote the rsync-backup script. The former admin and myself wrote the 'backup' script as a wrapper for the other one, to produce a report, etc. The script here also uses links to factor files which do not change, but only on a host level (it won't pick up that two files are the same between hosts and only backup one of them.)
We have explored switching to Backup PC for the easier file restores, but the instances in which we need to restore anything is so rare that it's not an issue. As a side note, we're using these scripts to backup nearly 3.6TB of data for the company, and I use it for about 500GB of my own.
Last, something I didn't mention above is the scripts have support for creating an off-site copy. The way currently implemented, we rotate USB drives weekly for the offline copy. These copies do not have the versioned data, only last night's complete copy, which is under 1TB (but just). It would be fairly trivial to add code to send to a remote data center, your largest limiting factor being bandwidth.
That's all you need. We even use a script to create versioned backups going back six months using perl as a wrapper.
Assuming the same paths, edit to your liking. I've made the scripts available at http://www.secure-computing.net/rsync/ if you're interested. It requires the system you're running the script for have root ssh access to the boxes it's backing up. We use password-less ssh keys for authentication.
The README file has the line I use in my crontab. I didn't write the script, but I've made a few modifications to it over the years.
What the phrase means is that simply installing a RAID on a given system is not a backup for that system. It is still more than acceptable to use *another* system, with a RAID or not, as the backup for the original system. For years, we've been running one large systems with tens of disks in a large RAID array as our backup system, for the other systems. The point of backups is to have the data in more than one place, regardless of where that place is. DVD, tape, an external disk, etc.
Drobo, or something similar, would be a perfect device for a home backup server.
I've found Nagios and NagVis a solid solution. NagVis is a plugin/addon for Nagios which allows you to create a Heads-Up display with status information on your own network diagram. It has an interactive map, which is 100% customizable. When kept in a browser window, it will play a sound during an event and flash the icon for a host indicating the problem.
PNP adds graphing of performance data to Nagios. It allows you to click through the nagios interface directly to the graphs for a given host or process. It will graph anything that has performance data output.
Finally, Cacti is a great solution for things which you may not roll into your Nagios insallation. We use it for monitoring network bandwidth utilization, mostly.
I help develop for a health care website, which is used internally by large clinics, etc, in Minnesota. With a strong, persistent insistence on clients switching from IE to Firefox, we've got from ~97% of users using IE to this month's stats showing 48.4% using IE, 50.8% using Firefox. We've also been pushing notices that IE6 has been EOL'd by Microsoft, and given links to upgrade to IE7. this has seen that 48.4% of IE users to be split with 20.3% of total users using IE7 and only 28.1% still using IE6.
IMHO, it's been a quite successful campaign. I'm not a huge fan of IE, in general, but it's far easier to code for IE7 than IE6.
Here's to the end of IE 6 and all the hacks needed for site to render correctly!
Openfire and the server, Spark is the client. http://igniterealtime.org./ We use it in healthcare where I work and it's pretty solid. Archiving is an optional module and works well.
Sure, but you know how geeks are. They're kind of like fat men and sex. When the get an opportunity, they put everything they've got into it.
The tag gives it away. Too bad.
I wouldn't be surprised if the whole achievement thing is a prank. Nevertheless, I've got mine unlocked!
For backups where I work, we've got a few different systems in place. We've done away with tape backups long ago, and our primary backup system is a disk-based system. Twelve drives in a RAID 6+0 for maximum availability and ability to recover from disk issues. This system keeps a daily snap shot from the past week, a weekly snap shot for the past month, and a monthly snap shot for the past six months. We then place the most recent daily snap shot on a USB external disk drive, which we carry off-site each day. This disk is encrypted and not connected to a network or otherwise available except physically.
This has worked well, and if the proverbial crap does hit the fan, we've got our off-site disk for last-chance recovery if the world comes to an end.
I spent a decade in the physical security realm, and I still own a small firm doing security systems, etc. I wanted to get in to IT as a Unix/BSD/Linux admin, so I started getting my name out there years ago. When an ideal job came up, I had a resume I was happy with, describing how my current and past positions would help me with my newly-sought position, whether there was any direct relation or not. From there, I showed some things to prove I could do it. I accepted a slight pay decrease to get my foot in the door with a clause that allowed for a large pay increase should I prove my worth. I've been working in my new IT career for over two years, and I got the large pay bump I sought.
This first thing you need to do is become a salesman. You need to learn how to sell yourself. If you're not confident, any prospective employer will figure that out. A good, solid resume will get you in the door for an interview, but you've got to demonstrate your ability.
It's nice seeing blatant honesty! Very funny. I see you've not had a problem paying your internet and slashdot subscription fees. ;)
This is a misconfiguration on their end. EV certificates, the ones that turn your address bar green and coax turtles into doing happy dances, are really expensive. It's my guess that they've either reused a certificate on another system, or one of their developers made a mistake in how the site and server cluster is configured. It's certainly something to complain about.
If you're ever in doubt about the validity of the certificate or security of a transaction, however, DON'T DO IT!. This goes for standing at an ATM in a shady neighborhood or doing business online.
Maybe it's a bit of a reach, but as soon as I saw mention of Adamo, I though Awesom-O. They should absolutely run Cartman as their spokesman for this...
For those not in the know: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AWESOM-O
Here's a legit pic (NFW): http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/2c/802_image_14.jpg
/me stops his adwords campaigns.
Has anyone thought about how this will hurt their customer base? Such a tactic will hurt us little guys that can barely afford advertising as it is. :\
The Norton Forums are now offline.
http://skitch.com/ecrist/b8t5e/forum-maintenance
The space station part occurs at 12:16 into the first episode, and at 1:29 for the second one.
How does one purchase software illegally? I mean, if you've purchased it, it's not illegal.
If I had some mod points left, +1 insightful. As I'm sure the OP of the thread is aware, anything on /. which is boo-Apple, get's modded down.
How the article reads:
What it really means:
This would be good for girlfriends wanting to know where their boyfriends are or for parents wanting to know where their children are at all times.
As long as you get the revenue sharing and such figured out, as is mentioned above, keep in mind we're heading deep into a recession, and jobs, alone, are valuable. Basically a 5-year guarantee of a job is kind of nice.
Just my two cents.
No, I think most people on this side of the pond are becoming whiney little kids. As was said above (somewhere), everyone expects blazing speeds, all the time, for almost no money at all. We've all come to expect everything for free (or close to it).
Try this. Take a LARGE file, and transfer it locally across your LAN. While you're doing that, try your VoIP, WoW, whatever. You may find it's a bit difficult. Throwing a random 'Read more about X so I sound smart, as if I've read about it,' doesn't mean anything. If you look heavily into corporate network infrastructure, I think you'll find a lot more traffic shaping going on that you think.
For the record, it's FLAMEBAIT, not FLAMEBATE. Learn how to spell, you ignorant ass.
NOT ALL TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT IS BAD YOU FUCKTARDS!
Why is it that every form of bandwidth throttling is seen as evil? There are some good, legitimate, reasons for managing traffic flow across a network. While most of the pukes on Slashdot may be hugely inconvenienced by having their latest pirated copy of software X, or DVD rip of 'I love it in the ass' over BitTorrent slowed down, there are people who are trying to use the same pipes for more normal activity. Who cares if it takes an extra five or ten minutes to download that file. I'm much more annoyed when a VoIP call, or streaming video gets choppy.
Whether you mod me -1 Troll or -1 Flamebait or not, you know you agree with me, at least in part.