[ubuntu-za] Ubuntu small office server

Hilton Gibson hilton.gibson at gmail.com
Wed Mar 25 06:22:28 GMT 2009


Charl Wentzel wrote:
> Hi Guys
> 
> After some serious hardware failures I decided its time to install a
> central server in our office environment for which I plan to use Ubuntu
> Server edition (busy downloading) on a Pentium server.
> 
> After doing a lot of reading on the subject and feeling a bit
> overwhelmed by all the technical information (I did know there is so
> much to know!) I decided to ask the mailing list for help on a specific
> issue.
> 
> I plan to do many things, but the thing I'm most concerned about its
> data integrity.  I plan to setup a Samba server (my wife still uses
> Windows) but would like to implement:
> - Redundant storage
> - Automated backups
> 
> Given I'm using an old desktop PC as the server I don't have RAID.  Is
> it possible to do duplication on two hard drives on the same machine?
> Maybe as a start, before I invest in another hard drive is it possible
> to implement duplication across two partitions?
> 
> I have a DVD drive available in the machine.  Can I automate scheduled
> backups of data directories to DVD?
> 
> Charl
> 
> 
Hi Charl

Check out: 
http://www.ubuntu.sun.ac.za/wiki/index.php/Enterprise_Server_Management

Should give you some good starting points.

Cheers

hg.

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