Firewall Builder firewall for a "pull" backup server

2017-03-31 Thread David Christensen
tensen wrote: > The backup server can be firewalled with no incoming ports and > outgoing ports limited to SSH and other required ports. I spent some time with my Debian 7.11 amd64 backup server and Firewall Builder today. I had previously created a firewall using the Firewall Builder wizard

Re: lvm on raid1 for a backup server or not?

2009-05-05 Thread randall
Zhengquan Zhang wrote: Dear debian community, I will build up a backup server which has 2x1T + 1x250G drives. the size of the one full backup will be about 400G. My initial plan was to install debian lenny on the 250G drive. leave 2x1T drive untouched and then make software raid1 on them after

lvm on raid1 for a backup server or not?

2009-05-05 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
Dear debian community, I will build up a backup server which has 2x1T + 1x250G drives. the size of the one full backup will be about 400G. My initial plan was to install debian lenny on the 250G drive. leave 2x1T drive untouched and then make software raid1 on them after the installation. I

Re: XFS / file system for backup server (Re: JFS / Unsupported file systems)

2008-04-29 Thread Alex Samad
partition for my avi/movies and fins xfs to much faster at handling them > > > I haven't implemented this in all detail and am currently testing it in > > various situation, so could change if you elaborated a bit or gave me > > pointers > > to resources on how to

Re: XFS / file system for backup server (Re: JFS / Unsupported file systems)

2008-04-29 Thread Ron Johnson
ere *the* last word in video processing, and so they needed a filesystem tuned for very large files. > I haven't implemented this in all detail and am currently testing it in > various situation, so could change if you elaborated a bit or gave me > pointers > to resources on how to

XFS / file system for backup server (Re: JFS / Unsupported file systems)

2008-04-29 Thread hh . eu
could change if you elaborated a bit or gave me pointers to resources on how to choose a good file system for a backup server holding data from several file systems. From this thread, XFS can cause trouble when it is not cleanly unmounted? Thanks! -Moritz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAI

Re: Slow access speeds for backup server

2007-12-05 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
rate intranets and like the servers, is running Sarge stable. > > Sarge is oldstable. With the emphasis on *old*. > > Anything that's visible to the hostile environment that is the > Intarweb, I'd bump that world-facing router to Etch ASAP. > > > Over the past cou

Re: Slow access speeds for backup server

2007-12-04 Thread Ron Johnson
ers, is running Sarge stable. Sarge is oldstable. With the emphasis on *old*. Anything that's visible to the hostile environment that is the Intarweb, I'd bump that world-facing router to Etch ASAP. > Over the past couple of weeks I've noticed that access times to the &

Slow access speeds for backup server

2007-12-04 Thread Duncan McDonald
ce attacks it would affect everything. Could this lag problem be something to do with process load on the backup server? If so is there a way to check what is causing the load? Or if this is a network issue is there a way to determine the cause? This network configuration has been running fin

Backup server SCSI setup problem

2006-06-15 Thread michael
I have been asked to set up a backup server using a "hand-me-down" HP SureStore DAT24X6 tape drive. The SCSI Card is an Adaptec 1944UW I installed debian stable on the computer, which has an IDE drive. I had to leave the SCSI card out during the initial install, as the inst

RE: Backup server with Windows Clients

2004-10-08 Thread Eduard Bosma
> -Original Message- > From: Marion Hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2004 12:21 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Backup server with Windows Clients > > I'm wanting to set my Debian machine to backup the data from our other > Windows

RE: Backup server with Windows Clients

2004-10-07 Thread Michael Kahle
setup Rsync as a service on the NT machine, but I prefer to use the cygwin utilities to do this. Michael -Original Message- From: Marion Hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2004 12:21 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Backup server with Windows Clients I'm wa

RE: Backup server with Windows Clients

2004-10-07 Thread Marion Hall
Jacob S. said >Backuppc can handle both Windows clients and Linux clients. apt-cache >show backuppc or apt-get install backuppc if you're using Sarge or >newer. Otherwise, http://backuppc.sourceforge.net . >HTH, >Jacob I'll give it a try. Thanks, Marion -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAI

Re: Backup server with Windows Clients

2004-10-07 Thread Jacob S
On Thu, 7 Oct 2004 12:20:44 -0500 "Marion Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm wanting to set my Debian machine to backup the data from our other > Windows PC's in the office. I was thinking this would best be done > with a client on the windows pcs that selects the files to backup and > then o

Backup server with Windows Clients

2004-10-07 Thread Marion Hall
I'm wanting to set my Debian machine to backup the data from our other Windows PC's in the office. I was thinking this would best be done with a client on the windows pcs that selects the files to backup and then on a schedule it archives and uploads the files to the linux. Has anyone successfull

Re: Need help designing backup/server system - raid

2002-12-14 Thread Alvin Oga
hi dennis On Sat, 14 Dec 2002, Alvin Oga wrote: ... > > My idea is to move all this stuff from Windows to a Debian > > fileserver, and in the process put it all on raided IDE > > drives so one HD failure doesn't provoke heart failure or > > stroke. > > > > Actual backups have been of limited us

Re: Need help designing backup/server system

2002-12-14 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya On Sat, 14 Dec 2002, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: > Hi Alvin! > > The problem is that I am *always* home! These are my > personal computers, at least in the sense that I own them, > but they are used for business purposes as well as personal. > > And me thinks you have a simplistic view of Win

Re: Need help designing backup/server system

2002-12-14 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Hi Alvin! The problem is that I am *always* home! These are my personal computers, at least in the sense that I own them, but they are used for business purposes as well as personal. And me thinks you have a simplistic view of Window machines! I have *nothing* in the "My Documents" folder, and ne

Re: Need help designing backup/server system

2002-12-13 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya mike/dennis collection of some backup scripts http://www.Linux-Backup.net -- and yes... backups should be done after everybody goes home ... and do backups in the middle of the day for the past 4 hrs so the morning work is not lost -- backups media is a whole ot

Re: Need help designing backup/server system

2002-12-13 Thread Mike Egglestone
Hi, You may want to look at using samba or smbfs. I sometimes use an smbmount command to mount a win98 share to my debian box. Then I can create tar files or rysnc the data to somewhere else. You can write a quick cron job that will do this auotmagically. hth, Mike > Thanks for that, but I ne

Re: Need help designing backup/server system

2002-12-13 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 03:42:30PM -0600, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: > > > My idea is to get some 120Gb IDE drives, which are pretty reasonable > > now, and set up some sort of raid array. I also have two or three > > 100mHz Pentiums, a 10/100 switch, an

Re: Need help designing backup/server system

2002-12-11 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 03:42:30PM -0600, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: > My idea is to get some 120Gb IDE drives, which are pretty reasonable > now, and set up some sort of raid array. I also have two or three > 100mHz Pentiums, a 10/100 switch, and the two windows systems that are > already networked t

Need help designing backup/server system

2002-12-11 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Greetings; I want to setup a fileserver and backup repository for two windows systems. It seems that no matter what I do, Gates' Law prevails, that is more prevalent in Win systems than Murphy's law, and every time I have a disk problem I lose half my life! (Gates' law: Everything will go wrong, e

Backup server

2002-03-11 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
I am currently in the process of making a mail/web server for a mid-sized corporation. What is the best way to create a backup server that will be automatically synchronized (users, home directories, settings, etc) in event of a primary failure? Rsync-Mirroring? [http://sunsite.dk/info/guides

Re: Duplicate Backup Server [AMANDA]

2001-08-23 Thread Jason Rashaad Jackson
OK, so I'm an idiot. The 'port not secure' failure was due to the setuid bit not being set on amcheck. So never mind. Thanks for listening. On Thursday 23 August 2001 11:23, Jason Rashaad Jackson wrote: > I have completely replicated functionality of our old Amanda backup s

Re: Duplicate Backup Server [AMANDA]

2001-08-23 Thread Jason Rashaad Jackson
x27;t even listed in my /etc/services file on the client-side, nor is it mentioned in the conf files on the server side. Jeez. On Thursday 23 August 2001 11:23, Jason Rashaad Jackson wrote: > I have completely replicated functionality of our old Amanda backup server > onto a new machine. Wit

Duplicate Backup Server [AMANDA]

2001-08-23 Thread Jason Rashaad Jackson
I have completely replicated functionality of our old Amanda backup server onto a new machine. With the exact same set up and the exact same config files (changed local information, of course), I get these when amcheck tries to contact the clients: ERROR: XX: [addr XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX