Replacing Firmware on the Siemens Orange Netbox

2013-02-23 Thread Amichai Rotman
Hi all, I was one of the unfortunate ones that got connected to Orange's home VOB line with the Seimens Gigaset 604, based on the Infineon Danube platform. Once I have left them, they "opened" the router, giving me "admin" on it and disabling the SIP capability. I heard there is a way to replace

Cloud Backup

2013-02-23 Thread Nadav Har'El
Hi, I'm looking for a "cloud backup" solution for Linux, where I'll be able to use "rsync", "sftp" (and similar utilities) to a remote server to back up by files, and when needed, look at individual files (e.g., using sshfs) or restore all my files. I am *not* looking for a solution based on speci

Re: Cloud Backup

2013-02-23 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi, Few things: - You can use S3, but then the rsync could be problematic, since there is no rsync "server" on the other side. - Amazon EBS is nice, but the Micro instance to use it with EBSis free based on your usage. I used the free Micro instance as a slave DNS and after 2 month

Re: Cloud Backup

2013-02-23 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Sat, Feb 23, 2013, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote about "Re: Cloud Backup": >- You can use S3, but then the rsync could be problematic, since there >is no rsync "server" on the other side. This is the part I'd need to code - run some sort of server process on EC2. I agree that it would be easier t

Re: Cloud Backup

2013-02-23 Thread Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda
On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 6:33 PM, Nadav Har'El wrote: > On Sat, Feb 23, 2013, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote about "Re: Cloud Backup": > >- You can use S3, but then the rsync could be problematic, since there > >is no rsync "server" on the other side. > > This is the part I'd need to code - run some s

Re: Cloud Backup

2013-02-23 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Sat, Feb 23, 2013, Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda wrote about "Re: Cloud Backup": > Google lets you pay for a minimal time of 15 minutes. > ProfitBricks charges by 3 minute chunks. Thanks, good to know. However, for my purposes, 60 cents (one hour a day) vs 15 cents (15 minutes a day) are not big differ

Re: Cloud Backup

2013-02-23 Thread Tomer Cohen
For this purpose I am using an old desktop computer equipped with big enough disk and a cron job to automatically fetch backups from remote servers when it is switched on. Yes, it store data in a fixed location, but given that it is only meant to backups, I can live with it for now. By the way, the

Re: Cloud Backup

2013-02-23 Thread shimi
On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 6:15 PM, Nadav Har'El wrote: > Hi, I'm looking for a "cloud backup" solution for Linux, where I'll be > able to use "rsync", "sftp" (and similar utilities) to a remote server > to back up by files, and when needed, look at individual files (e.g., > using sshfs) or restore a

Re: Replacing Firmware on the Siemens Orange Netbox

2013-02-23 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
OpenWRT lists it as not fully supported yet, but their site and forums are probably some of the better sources for information on the subject: http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/siemens/gigaset604il If you manage to get usable source from orange you may be able to assist th openwrt in getting the device