[H-GEN] Non-member bounce for "Dan Roe" <grem at shells.homeunix.net>]

[Jason Parker-Burlingham]

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[Another bounce for Dan.  Dan, I see you're intending to fix your mail
server; I'd recommend sooner rather than later since the alternative
is having me forward your messages for you when I feel like it as
opposed to something approaching a timely manner.  I am not in the
same timezone as you.                                        --ListMom]

From: "Gremlin" <grem at shells.homeunix.net>
To: <general at lists.humbug.org.au>
Subject: RE: [H-GEN] Admin bounce for "Dan Roe" <grem at shells.homeunix.net>
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 11:28:27 +1000
Message-ID: <000c01c25eb2$b0283590$0100a8c0 at qld.optushome.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0209181043490.14908-100000 at avon.timetraveller.org>

> Not bad.  I do have a couple of suggestions :)
>
> I've always found nfs performance to not be up to the demands placed on it
> with respect to backups.  Also if you start allowing root access via nfs
> it becomes quite insecure.  I prefer using scp.  I have a cronjob run on
> each Linux box doing a tar which is then scp'ed to the backup server.

Yes performance isnt to great...
It takes a good 6 to 7 hours to complete... but hell im not here at midnight
I backup very little from my linux servers, its mainly windows machines i backup

Id really prefer a system where the 'clients' backed up their own data
And send their tar/zip/gz/dir to the server
However the lusers here have no idea what or how to backup so automation is
needed

On another note im pondering the idea of a central contact list (address book if
you want)
We use Outlook 2k here and ive looked into LDAP but the fact i cant add entries
from outlook turns me off
Are there any other ways around this without having to manually export/import
the address book from outlook
Or using any sort of M$ exchange server (I try keep my services on linux)
Should i just consider rolling out a different client? (If so any suggestions)

Daniel Roe

- Yers i will fix my mail server when i get the time -
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