[Leaplist] backup application

[Patrick]

Kevin Korb wrote:
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> I think I might actually prefer the loss of data files to the loss of a
> Windows system.  There is nothing worse that having to
> install/configure/patch a Windows system.  Even people who know Windows
> can blow an entire day doing that.
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I install Linux on systems to donate.

 I take in those systems that Smart Guys and Best Buy Geek Squad have 
totally kluged, and for which folks have paid $50, $150, and more, that 
nothing was done at all.

There are a very few instances where I will reload Microsoft's totally 
unsupported Win 2000,  or Win XP,  and  they have been, so far,
1. computer used for Framemaker on government contracts
2. computer used for SOS ( a home school program, for 5 students, that 
ONLY runs on virus magnet.

So far, due to Microsoft dropping support on those, the systems have 
failed totally twice, each. 

A total install, along with some of the 100 Open Source programs on the 
TTCS _ open Source Software for Windows disk, all drivers, Avast or 
AVG8.5; CCleaner or Glary Utilities, complete registry scans, full virus 
scans, takes about 8 to 10 hours.

The Linux installs along with tweaks, opening up all the repositories, 
and grabbing  400 more programs, games, apps. for the system, takes me 
about 1.5 hours, on similar computers.

Other than the fact that the Microsoft installed systems fail in so many 
ways, "eat the homework", and cause stressful outages, there are some 
few applications that simply won't work in Wine on Linux.

I totally despise Microsoft for many more reasons:
-  WGA, (having to prove the owner is NOT a thief!)
-  hidden agendas, using back doors;
-  DRM that won't let some formats play
-  system up to 200 times SLOWER than a similar unit running Linux
-  only has a single desktop (that dual switching  trick is  not a   
         con-current environment!)
-  BSODs
-  1 million virus/malware/bot and exploits, and counting
-  4 hours or MORE required each week, to debug, anti-kludge, AV!
_ Back-ups that don't!

What is commendable about Linux (and, the *BSDs), is:

-  the support for drivers, from Brother, HP, and the huge community   
     of  users/developers who respond  quickly  to  user's needs and 
      requests, pumping out Open Source drivers.   Driver base now
      greatly exceeds anything in any other OS, with the possible
      exception of the *BSDs.

- ease of install on every system I have built, at the average of 4 a week
   since 1997.

-  Huge amount of forums, tutorials, books, &  documentation available.


As for Back-ups, I have salvaged old servers, that have RAID and am 
setting one up as a network file server.  It has four drives, hot-swap 
able.  A Compaq 1250 MHz, unit, running Centos.

Advice and input always welcome! This thread and others do a good bit of 
education for me, though I do seem to simply lurk on the lists, when I 
find something noteworthy you will get it.

I do know where some deals on used servers are, such as I have found.

Southeastern Data is at 142 Park Road, Oviedo, 32765, Phone 
407-971-4654.       One block North of the U Store It/drug store 
(located on Palm Street and North of the Walmart Neighborhood Market), 
but, on the North bound side of Alafaya Trail, in Oviedo.  In a blue 
steel building, visible from the highway,

http://www.southeasterndata.com/


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