[tech] the aftermath

[Nick Bannon]

On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 11:43:03AM +0800, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 17, 2003, Paul Day wrote:
> > Old PC with a couple of cheap 120GB IDE drives, somewhere _other_ than UCC
> > (ie, elsewhere on campus or colo-ed somewhere on WAIX for free) doing an
> > rsync at 4am each morning?
> 
> .. once the network upgrade happens. It'll suck otherwise.
> What about a firewire caddy and a fat removeable hard disk?

Those are useful, but insufficient. They save us from "oh dear the
hardware exploded", but they don't help for "someone fucked up the
config/deleted something/rootkit'ed the machine but no-one noticed
until a month later".

This (and its links at the bottom) can help:
http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/

Nick.

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