Linux

Fedora re-installed, home partition seems safe. Now the boring part of re-installing all my apps. Hopefully this doesn't happen again!

Have you considered a backup regime?

Backups are the brakes of the computer world. Pfft.

#don'tevenridefixedanymore

Backups are the face cage of the computer world.

As in "should have worn a face cage"...

new ubuntu came out today. anyone tried it yet?

Fuck it. Reinstalling Fedora, hoping the /home partition will be fine. Assuming the HDD is okay, I'm mostly annoyed about having to get Wine running Office again.

I recently set up office with PlayOnLinux, which went very smoothly.

Yeah... But I miss minimal installs since leaving gentoo.

Some distro's have a server edition which avoids all the default packages, you can then futz about setting up a desktop to your hearts content.

My preference is to go from a basic debian install.

Really quick question.

Say somebody has CIFS share mounted like so.

/var/www/local_files
/var/www/files ***CIFS mounted to a windows server in fstab

If I rm -r the www will it delete the stuff from the CIFS share?

Yes.

Phew good job I cancelled then.

I knew it was a bad way to do it, damn one man bands.

Cheers

OK back on this.
Essentially I've been tasked with DR for one of our onemanband developed web systems.

Bit of background

LAMP
Drupal

The way it is done (I'm preparing to virtualise it also for use with veeam) is so.

/var/www/
/var/www/sites/defaults/files <-CIFS mounted share in fstab

The folder above is backed up manually currently my task is DB and code. So far all the files that change are in the files folder so I think I'm OK there.

I've undecided as to whether I use rsync or drush (being a *nix noob)

On my test system I've got the folder structure set like this.

/var/www/
/var/www/sites/default/files <-symbolic link to /media/FILES which is a CIFS share.

If I du -s /var/www it reports 83MB which is about right as the FILES directory is TB's of media
Can I assume if I rm the www dir it will only remove the symbolic link and not the data in the files dir?

To me that seems a logical way of keeping the data secure and up to date as I go through and strip out all the shit the dev hasn't removed from the live site.

Use rsync.
Removing /var/www will delete the symlink only.

new ubuntu came out today. anyone tried it yet?

Been running since last friday. Xubuntu flavour, clean install no problems. Going to upgrade from 12.10 on the laptop this weekend.

Thanks now onto db replication

MySQL?

Yep. LAMP innit

Yo dawgs. What's the latest on the 'best linux for an old laptop' question?

I have a 8-year old ish Acer with a 2GHz AMD turion 64 chip, 1MB ram. It was the mother-in-laws and when it got gummed up with windows about 3 years back they were about to chuck it so I wiped it and started fresh with Ubuntu. It was quite fast and I was well chuffed but recently has been getting slowww.

So before I upgrade to 12.04.2 Precise Pangolin, is there a better option?

I only use this machine for web browsing and basic re-sizing, cropping etc of photos.

Cheers all
PS. I am quite shit with computers so best with a plug-n-play type of linux.

I was impressed with Mint Linux. Shoved it on an old (2005?) laptop and it ran perfectly.

XUbuntu or Lubuntu 13.something.

XFCE and LXDE lightweight desktops respectively.

I installed OpenBSD 5.3 on a machine with 64MB RAM and a 133MHz CPU at the weekend

Cheers guise. Gonna try Lubuntu I think.

Seth Vidal killed in a hit and run whilst out on his bike

sad news

Been given a Lenovo T61 (Centrino) laptop at work with Puppy Linux 5 preinstalled to do some Arduino stuff.

Woo, Arduino at work! (Extracurricular)

Boo, Puppy Linux sucks! Thinking of shoving Arch Linux on it. At least that'd be a mindfuck I'm used to.

How depressing. It's been 10 years I've been using linux and STILL there's massive problems detecting EDID of monitors. Stuck with 800x600 on my 23" Samsung. Guess I'll have to manually write my Xorg.conf but really, 10 years and still this shit ?