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New Use for Old Hardware: Network RAID Backup

admin — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 15:16:21 -0500

Long unused, the old P166 PC seemed like it ought to have some use left in it. Then I remembered the 2nd hard drive wasting time in the other PC; the combination of the old PC and a 2nd drive seemed like a good candidate for a RAID, to be used as backup storage over the network. As it turns out, that was perfectly realistic and not too much work, at least if you know what you are doing. I learned a lot.

Setting Up Linux Server

admin — Sat, 22 Apr 2006 20:44:00 -0400

This tutorial really should be titled "How to get your
Debian server off the ground as quickly as possible", since it's based on
minimal Debian Linux (stable) install.

Here you'll be able to get your box secured very quickly, and then get the
services running with minimum hassle and pain.

Backing up Windows machines using rsync and ssh

admin — Sat, 17 Dec 2005 16:08:00 -0500

As all other unix tricks this is also the result of laziness and the need. I wanted to backup data on my windows laptop to a central linux/unix server. I didn't want all the features of available expensive backup solutions. Just a simple updated copy of my data on a central machine which is backed up to the tape daily. rsync is known for fast incremental transfer and was an obvious choice for the purpose.

Remote backup using ssh, tar and cron

admin — Mon, 03 Jan 2005 01:29:00 -0500

Are you looking for a solution to backup your data to a remote location? While a solid backup solution such as Arkeia or TSM from IBM are nice from an enterprise point of view, simpler solutions are available from a home user's perspective. I will walk you through on you how you can backup your data to a remote server, using the default tools available on all linux systems. In a nutshell, we will use ssh capabilities to allow a cron job to transfer a tarball from you local machine to a remote machine.