Hello folks,
I am considering using Fedora and have downloaded R.8, but done nothing
else yet. Is there any email list I can go to that uses language more
newbie-friendly? I have no clue what you people are talking about...the
terminology is super-proprietary and without a dictionary or years of
experience I am totally lost.
BTW I am not computer-illiterate. My working career was IBM mainframe
tech support. I am still lost in here. With all respect for what you
all seem to know, I need to go somewhere else to learn about this OS.
Any suggestions?
Additionally, reading these emails has given me the thought that I may
have to become a Systems Programmer again just to keep my teeny desktop
running. Not an attractive proposition at this stage of the game....
Thanks in advance,
Bill K
PS This post is the most familiar-sounding of any I have read today....
Les Mikesell wrote:
Reid Rivenburgh wrote:
Hi. I have a small network at home consisting of one wired, always-on
F8 desktop (mine), a roving Mac laptop running OS X, and a rarely-on
Windows XP laptop. The laptops are wireless. I also have a new 500
GB external hard drive that some of you may remember. The Mac user
was thinking about getting a drive for herself to do backups using
Time Machine or whatever Apple's backup app is. But we figured there
ought to be a way to backup to my desktop/hard drive. I looked around
and found BackupPC. It sounds like it'd do the job, if I could figure
it out. (I'm having trouble discovering the Mac on the network
[doesn't respond to nmblookup], and I have a feeling if I can get past
that, I will have additional trouble getting rsync or tar to work
there....) I thought I'd check here to see if there's anything else
out there that would work. Ideally, it would be transparent to the
clients, automatic when they're on the network, incremental.... You
know, um, everything BackupPC does! Free and open source would be
best....
If it is your network you shouldn't have to 'discover' it. The simple
fix is to configure your dhcp server to always give the same IP
addresses to the same MAC addresses and then either put the addresses
and names in the backuppc's hosts file or set up local DNS service.
There shouldn't be any problem running ssh, rsync, or tar on a Mac.
Many people on the backuppc mail list are backing up macs, so ask
there if you run into any problems.
