Re: Starting isp and going to use Debian

2004-02-21 Thread Ed Thomson
Chris Hoover wrote: > > Anyway, my question is what software do most of you use? Obviously, we have > decided to use Debian for our base os. However, what do most of you use > for: > > 1. Webmail I use IMP (part of Horde, http://www.horde.org/). It's not the best, but it turned out to be the

Re: Which SATA RAID controller?

2004-03-24 Thread Ed Thomson
Russell Coker wrote: > > If you gave me a Promise card I would not use it, most reports of them are not > positive. For what it's worth - and it's probably not worth alot, I have had an okay experience with the Promise 2-port SATA RAID card in mirror mode on a not heavily loaded machine. Despit

Re: backup software: Legato's Networker, Veritas' NetBackup, or IBM's Tivoli?

2004-04-05 Thread Ed Thomson
Martin Foster wrote: > > So far, I've trialled Legato's Networker 7.1, and Veritas' NetBackup 5.0 > code, with IBM scheduled to drop off a media kit for Tivoli Storage > Manager 5.2.2 in a day or so. I didn't like Veritas' software at all -- it worked (moderately) under Linux by running as root

Re: backup software: Legato's Networker, Veritas' NetBackup, or IBM's Tivoli?

2004-04-05 Thread Ed Thomson
Lucas Albers wrote: > How else is it going to have permissions to backup everything on the system? > The port it locked to a particular backup server... > So only that ip address can connect to that port. You're right, I was being vague. It absolutely has to run as root. But I am generally wary o

Re: Which SATA RAID controller?

2004-03-24 Thread Ed Thomson
Russell Coker wrote: > > If you gave me a Promise card I would not use it, most reports of them are > not > positive. For what it's worth - and it's probably not worth alot, I have had an okay experience with the Promise 2-port SATA RAID card in mirror mode on a not heavily loaded machine. Des

Re: backup software: Legato's Networker, Veritas' NetBackup, or IBM's Tivoli?

2004-04-05 Thread Ed Thomson
Martin Foster wrote: > > So far, I've trialled Legato's Networker 7.1, and Veritas' NetBackup 5.0 > code, with IBM scheduled to drop off a media kit for Tivoli Storage > Manager 5.2.2 in a day or so. I didn't like Veritas' software at all -- it worked (moderately) under Linux by running as root

Re: backup software: Legato's Networker, Veritas' NetBackup, or IBM's Tivoli?

2004-04-05 Thread Ed Thomson
Lucas Albers wrote: > How else is it going to have permissions to backup everything on the system? > The port it locked to a particular backup server... > So only that ip address can connect to that port. You're right, I was being vague. It absolutely has to run as root. But I am generally wary o