Last July I posted asking about storage and backup. I still don't have a good solution, but am thinking offsite backup is the way to go. I got a few responses then, but no consensus.

What is your backup solution?

Poll Backup

If you have any other comments, more data is better!

mew0422 and I are trying to sort out our data-storage needs. She has a laptop, I have a desktop. We want some NAS and we want a good backup solution.

It looks like Apple's Time Machine is entirely client-based and so can use any mountable storage, be it a Time Capsule, a USB HDD, or something else ( Read more... )

I have a 160GB hard drive that is on its way out. I bought a 250GB drive to replace it. I partitioned said 250GB drive using gparted to have 30GB for /, 10GB for swap, and the rest for /home, similar to the way the 160GB drive was partitioned but with more space in /home.

I did dd if=/dev/sda2 of=/dev/sdb2 to copy /home over. That worked great ( Read more... )

The other day we attempted to set mew0422 up with a wireless connection from her eMac in her third-floor room to the cable modem on the second floor. One requirement was that it needed to be done this weekend, so at that point online shopping was out of the question. The obvious solution was to buy a wireless router and a wireless USB dongle for her ( Read more... )