[Nottingham] Backup box on a 486...

[Michael Erskine]

On Thursday 02 December 2004 14:52, David Wolfson wrote:
> As we STILL have NO BACKUP of the research group's data, I've now got a
> scheme afoot to stick a BIG drive in an old 486 and keep it somewhere else.
>  I've had some advice on whats going to be needed (rsync, ssh, iptables, -
> cheers roger), but only have RH9 discs to deal with. This is a bit of
> another 'disto  selection' question, but what do people think would be
> happy and minimal on a machine of this spec (debian?), and where might a
> get it?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Dave

Slackware is happy on a 486 -- the package management won't tax it in the way 
that apt would.

Regards,
Michael.