[TriLUG] Free Sun Ultra 5 for TriLUG

[Mike Broome]

On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 01:27:03PM -0500, Tanner Lovelace wrote:
> The SC had previously discussed the possibility of setting up
> a machine with a large hard drive to be a backup server for
> our home directories.  The recent snapshot backup using rsync
> was the basis we were going to use for this.  The idea being
> to provide a server that can be mounted so that if you accidentally
> lose some data, all you would need to do is look in the /backup
> directory and there would be a snapshot of your directory
> 5 minutes ago, 10 minutes ago, 30 minutes ago, 1 hour ago,
> a day ago, etc...
> 
> This is particularly timely for me, since my 30GB drive that
> I had /home on in my personal computer just died yesterday.
> And no, I didn't have any backups. :-(
> 
> Anyway, we'd love to hear any comments about this.

This sounds like a good use of an Ultra 5 and a large drive to me.

Sorry to hear about the your personal /home drive. :(
(/me makes note to run a backup this weekend at home since it's been
over a month since the last one.)

Mike

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Mike Broome
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