Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: back up gentoo system

2008-05-10 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 09 May 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: > A backup device is just a storage appliance, if should not be > parochial about the origin of the data it stores. Agreed. I have gentoo boxes out there that contain backups for themselves, other gentoo machines, tens of various Windows machines and e

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: back up gentoo system

2008-05-09 Thread Ian Hilt
On Fri, 9 May 2008 at 10:51pm +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: A backup device is just a storage appliance, if should not be parochial about the origin of the data it stores. hmmm ... parochial #include main() { printf("%s", parochial); } $ gcc parochial.c -o parochial $ ./parochial $

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: back up gentoo system

2008-05-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 09 May 2008 15:38:51 +0200, Michael Schmarck wrote: > >> No. Not to a drive used for backups of Linux machines. > > > > Why? > > Different OS. So. We can use the same web pages, read the same email, why not share hardware? > > My partner has to use Windows for > > work, are you sa

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: back up gentoo system

2008-05-09 Thread Michael Schmarck
Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 08 May 2008 09:55:50 +0200, Michael Schmarck wrote: > >> >> To a backup device? Why? >> > >> > Don't Windows users need to backup? >> >> No. Not to a drive used for backups of Linux machines. > > Why? Different OS. > You could equally be say