Two things missing from Ubuntu - Backup and Firewall - can we havethem in Horay

[Nano]

Thomas Beckett Wrote: 
> On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 00:12:30 +0000, Ben Edwards <funkytwig at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I have to say Ubuntu is almost the perfect Desktop distro, apart from
> > two ommisions - User Friendly Firewall and a User friendly Backup
> > solution.  so lets deal with each.
> > 
> > Backup
> > 
> > I recently put a backup system in place to copy /home to a DVD-RW
> > every nite.  I used a series of DVDs with eatch day of the week
> > written on them.  The backup run at 4am and eatch morning they would
> > come in, remove the disk from last nite (which is ejected) and
> replace
> > it with the relevant disk.  Every week the Friday disk is taken off
> > site and kept - and replaced with a new dist.  I am emailed the
> > results.
> > 
> > This is a very simple effective solution but fiddly to set up (I use
> > dar, cdrecord and makeiso and set up a cron job).  What we really
> need
> > is a GUI which allows the user to select a backup strategy, gives
> them
> > instructions and just works.  Douse such a thing exist and can we
> have
> > one in Ubuntu?
> > 
> > This may be a desktop distro but lots of people are using it as such
> > stand alone - dragging/drooping /home onto the window that popes up
> > when you insert a DVD is hardly a elegant solution, for a start the
> > DVD may need to be blanked.
> > 
> > Firewall
> > 
> > Antivirus may not be necessary but a firewall is.  A lot of people
> > have them built into there router but not all.  My very cheap
> wireless
> > router (£35) has one and it comes set up in a sensible way by
> default.
> >  It would be great if Ubuntu had one by default.  Again as a stand
> > alone desktop distro people may connect it to a cable modem or DSL
> > router which douse not have a Firewall.  Myself I use Telewest in the
> > UK and it comes with RJ45 cable modem without a firewall and I own a
> > budget DSL router without one.
> > 
> > Ben
> > 
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> 
> 
> There was talk on this list a while ago about mondo which is aparently
> very good for backups but has some internal problems with its
> develoepers or something and so is not in active development any more
> - i dunno
> 
> Failing this - you could just use the dar command and set a cron job
> for whenever you want it to run.
> 
> As for firewalls, Ubuntu by default does not have  any external ports
> open at all and would only start listening for connections if you
> installed a relevent server such as mail/ftp/ssh/telnet etc.
> If you want to use a server then install firestarter - its a great
> tool for a firewall.
> 
> http://www.fs-security.com/
> 
> it is available in universe i think , but the latest vesion was only
> released on Dec 13th so the version in universe is likely slightly
> old. from the site you ca get .deb packages anyway so shouldnt be too
> much bother to install - or rebuild an ubuntu package from source.
> 
> Tom
> 
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£35 a wireless router?
Wow, that's great. Here in Spain everything is muche more expensive :(


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Nano