[SGVLUG] Dev/admin sig for August: backup server

[Emerson, Tom (*IC)]

First off, the next Devsig meeting will be quite early in the month of August - in fact, it will be on the 1rst!

At the last meeting we got the kinks worked out for some e-mail accounts, and tuoched upon some of the discussion as to why they were having problems in the first place: the "backups" that the system was making were filling the drive/partition where the e-mail configurations were stored...

This month my dad and I will be renovating some old hardware to add to their network to work as a "backup server" - and by this, I don't mean the kind that stands-in for the primary server should it fail, but rather a server that sits on the net and actively probes-and-pulls data from the other computers in order to make a backup.  Anyone with experience in setting up this type of server is welcome to lend a hand on the logistics and configuration; anyone interested in LEARNING how to create such a server should plan on attending (though space will be limited - seems there will be some other groups in attendance that day - please RSVP to me(*))

Some of the details that we will work out at the meeting will be the actual network configuration (the library has multiple subnets to keep the "webserver" in the DMZ and the rest of the "client" computers safe from the the big-bad-internet...)  Also up for discussion will be the backup strategy and configuration of the software [most likely we will use "Amanda", but if you have a better suggestion we're all ears...]

Tom

(*) I've set up a facebook "group" for SGVLUG and set this up as a "closed" event - if your on facebook, join the group and send a request to be invited - if you're not on facebook, send a message either to my home address [osnut at pacbell.net] or work [tom.emerson at wbconsultant.com]

And a final p.s.: although I've posted this announcement on the main list, I'd like to keep discussion on the dev-sig list - see the sgvlug website for details on joining the devsig list.