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

[Solomon K. Chang]

The 1st?

I hope you mean to say it's going to be in Las Vegas.  At the Riviera Hotel.  And it's on the DC17 schedule somewhere.  I don't know anyone who's sticking around town that weekend.

Solomon

--- On Tue, 7/21/09, Emerson, Tom (*IC) <Tom.Emerson at wbconsultant.com> wrote:

> From: Emerson, Tom (*IC) <Tom.Emerson at wbconsultant.com>
> Subject: [SGVLUG] Dev/admin sig for August: backup server
> To: "'dev-sig at sgvlug.org'" <dev-sig at sgvlug.org>
> Cc: "'SGVLUG Discussion List.'" <sgvlug at sgvlug.net>
> Date: Tuesday, July 21, 2009, 3:23 PM
> 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.
>