Re: ProTools vs. Ardour. Why spend the money??????????
- From: "David Morgan \(MAMS\)" <mams@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2006 05:48:03 GMT
"The Spanish Inquisition" <ximinez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:44301c76$0$11076$e4fe514c@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
philicorda wrote:
On Sun, 02 Apr 2006 07:57:01 +0200, The Spanish Inquisition wrote:
Les Cramer wrote:
I have my Windows machines set up with Nod32 antivirus, Sygate FirewallAh, Yes. That's one thing that's actually much easier to do in Linux than
and to run Ghost to a network drive 3 times a week rotating image files.
In the event of a hard disk failure, I boot the Ghost CD and in 15
minutes I am up and running.
I've asked several times in the Linux groups how to do this EASILY, IOW
recover from a complete hard disk failure by booting a CD and re-imaging
the drive and I have been given solutions that are either beta, so
obtuse and cryptic that one needs a degree in Perl script writing or
half baked alpha versions of software.
I finally gave up.
in Windows. So easy that you don't need special tools (like Ghost) for it
and that paradoxically makes it more difficult for the end-user.
Making a backup involves no more than running a 'tar' command (tar is like
a windows zip file) that saves a file to a network drive (or over a
network pipe). Recovering from a backup is no more difficult than booting
from a rescue disk, recreating the partitions and formatting and
restoring the files from the tar file. Then recreate the boot record
with a grub boot disk.
Tell you what would be cool....
Set up a cron job to copy (uncompressed, untarred) the system and /home
onto another drive every saturday early morning. Make the script overwrite
/etc/fstab with the new drive's location. Make the backup drive hda1,
so grub is on it, with a second entry so you can boot off the backup
instead.
I'm doing that on my colo server already. First line of defense is a
nightly rsynced secundary drive. When the main drive fails, removing it
and rebooting is sufficient to fall back transparently to the secundary.
Second line of defense is the rsynced copy on my home server. Third line
is a hard link base snapshot tree, that allows me to go back and get old
versions of files up to 3 months back.
I could use RAID mirroring instead of defense 1, but in doesn't protect
against risk #1: Human error, some silly mistake by me or someone else
that makes the system remotely unbootable. Losing a day's worth of
changes is not a big problem in this case.
WTF does this paranoid bullshit have to do with audio or the thread topic??
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