[Wolves] e-smith - and a question about local domains

[Mark Ellse]

David,

That's a good question. At the moment I am relying on staff backing 
their machines up regularly 'by hand'. Most of the machines on the 
network are Win2k. How would you suggest doing that automatically?

Mark


David Goodwin wrote:

> Mark Ellse wrote:
>
>> I've just installed e-smith (www.e-smith.org) on an old computer with 
>> a new 80G hard disk. (£45) After downloading the iso and burning it, 
>> it took about ten minutes to set it up and to add the user accounts. 
>> A total doddle - even for me.
>>
>> So now it sits on the network in a different building as a tame 
>> backup server. So if we get a fire in the main offices, we don't lose 
>> all our data!
>>
>
> How are you replicating the data to the server? Periodic cron job? 
> Rsync? DRBD?
>
> David.
>
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