backup plan for home server

I'm in the phase of planning a backup strategy for my home server (mail, web, wiki, documents, pictures) and I wanted to have the opinion of those more experienced so that I don't discover I did something wrong when it's too late. What do I want to protect against: - drive failure - accid

Re: Re: How to send hostname through DHCP more often.

Title: Re: Re: How to send hostname through DHCP more often. Thanks for the dhcp-lease-time tip, it works fine. Bogdan.

How to send hostname through DHCP more often.

I use debian stable (sarge) and the dhcp3-client package. I register my hostname by adding send hostname "foo"; in /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf. Everything works fine but for some reason the DHCP/DNS server (which I don't control) loses the hostname registration and the next day I need to connect to

sarge installation causes BIOS to freeze on harddisk detection

drive detection. Now the big question: How could the installer affect the hard drive in such a way that it freezes the BIOS? Even if it messes up the MBR and all the partitions, I should still be able to get into the BIOS setup, right? Your help is dearly appreciated, Bogdan Calmac. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,