[Leaplist] backup application

[Hank Lambert]

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I do run a Windows XP box for my ham radio software (can't get all of
it to run under Wine). Currently I am using a Dell Dimension 3000 that
I got from a client who upgraded workstations. I did a fresh install
using XP Pro SP-2, and after install, updates, cleanup, anti-malware
install and config, and finally ham radio software install, update,
and config, I was looking at almost 10 hours.

That is why I now image the machine after it is all updated and
everything is the way I like it. Every few months, or after a new
program is installed and set up, I re-image the machine. That way, if,
no wait...when the OS crashes or starts running sluggish, I drop the
saved image on the computer and I am back to where I started, all in
under 30 minutes.

It's sad that I have to do this, I never have to do this on my Linux
boxes, but for those who have to deal with MS, take a look at Acronis
or Shadow Protect. Both will save you valuable time.

I am getting ready to install Linux Mint 6.0 on my laptop. I am
currently running 4.0, and want to upgrade it. Afterwards, I am going
to give Backula a try. I have read good things about it, and it seems
easy enough.

- --Hank


Patrick wrote:
> 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.
>>  
> 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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Hank Lambert, KB4MTO
www.hanklambert.com
hank at hanklambert.com
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