Re: [CentOS] Some basic LVM questions

2009-11-08 Thread M. Hamzah Khan
On Sun, 2009-11-08 at 10:44 -0800, Monte Milanuk wrote: > M. Hamzah Khan wrote: > > There won't be any issue in doing this. The installer just tries to make > > things easier by creating one big volume group. > > > > I'd say that in some ways sepera

Re: [CentOS] Some basic LVM questions

2009-11-08 Thread M. Hamzah Khan
you would still be in a very unhappy situation if the data drive fails but it would still save you a lot of headache in the event that you encounter a situation in which only the OS drive fails. :) Regards Hamzah -- M. Hamzah Khan RedHat Certified Engineer Number:

Re: [CentOS] IPSec VPN Under CentOS 5.4

2009-10-22 Thread M. Hamzah Khan
cond this. IPSec also has another advantage over SSL as it is compatible with non-linux devices (Cisco etc) which don't have support for SSL based VPNs, and is just as (if not more) secure. Regards Hamzah -- M. Hamzah Khan RedHat Certified Engineer Number: 804005539516829 Email:

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4 and BitTorrent

2009-10-16 Thread M. Hamzah Khan
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Re: [CentOS] Updating an AntiVirus trougth a proxy (ERROR)

2009-09-28 Thread M. Hamzah Khan
k with that specific updater, but maybe try: export http_proxy="http://$USERNAME:$passw...@$proxy_address:$PORT"; Regards Hamzah -- M. Hamzah Khan RedHat Certified Engineer Number: 804005539516829 Email: ham...@hamzahkhan.com URL: http://www.hamzahkhan.com Mobile: +44 (0)

Re: [CentOS] External Backup Systems?

2009-09-27 Thread M. Hamzah Khan
ve disk that ginormous (and cannot imagine having disks that > size). I have a 73gig SCSI system disk, that I do monthly fulls and > daily incrementals to an enternal 120gig SATA 2.5" disk in an USB > enclosure. I run a cron job that uses dump and a Tower Of Hanoi > sequence. Monthly

Re: [CentOS] External Backup Systems?

2009-09-27 Thread M. Hamzah Khan
f (connected to internet > of course). > > > Then also comes the benefits of less electricity usage to pay for. > That stuff aint cheap. Its a very smart solution for a growing > problem and the best factor that I have found with it is that it is > simple to setu

Re: [CentOS] External Backup Systems?

2009-09-27 Thread M. Hamzah Khan
n&q=netgear+nas > +storage&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=cuu_Sr6GHsKe8Abz1ZShAQ&sa=X&oi=product_result_group&ct=title&resnum=7 > > On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 5:40 PM, M. Hamzah Khan > wrote: > Hey everyone, > > My home server just had a d

[CentOS] External Backup Systems?

2009-09-27 Thread M. Hamzah Khan
The only other option I could think of is to use tapes, but this option can be quite pricy for a home user. So I was wondering what you guys use for external backups for a home system containing at least 500GB worth of important data? Regards Hamzah -- M. Hamzah Khan RedHat Certified Engin