So I’ve been seeing people post pics on their uber workspaces with 15 monitors spread out across their wall, etc.  And I’m thinking, hey that’s cool, but I can’t afford that.  Heck, I’m still trying to get rid of all the 15″ Packaged Hell monitors spread out around the building.  Even if I could buy [...]

So last night was our second SMUUG (http://www.smuug.org) meeting.  Last time we had four people, by the end of last night we had seven, so we’re growing.  We’re still trying to figure out what we’re all about and what our plans for the future are.  I think we’re going to try an install party sometime [...]

It appears we’ve got a problem with a UPS and my server has been rebooting unexpectedly.  I’ve switched which servers were plugged into which UPS and thus diagnosed the problem.  But this caused an error in the backup script that was supposed to be handled.  I’m connecting Server1 to Server2 via iSCSI, and the script [...]

So today I fired up the backed up VM that I’ve been using rsync to sync to all week, with the script from my previous post, and it fired up and worked beautifully.  The VM server in question is Ubuntu 7.10, with Samba+LDAP configured as a Windows NT-style Primary Domain Controller, and the main file [...]

I forgot to mention, this process has cut my backup time down to about 6 hours from 16 hours.  I’m backing up about 400GB worth of data.  We don’t have much data change nightly, so all that time is spent processing.
I’m backing up to a removable hard drive in another computer over iSCSI.  I have [...]

So I’ve been evaluating our backup procedures. Of course I’d like to go ahead and buy some software and do it all proper, but the $$’s not there, so I’m just trying to improve the free solutions we have at our disposal. So browsing around the IntraWeb I found some more info about [...]