Re: [sheflug] Backups and Instant messaging

[Dean Sas <dean [at] xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Simon Brown wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> It's time for me to buy a new computer as my trusty Athlon 900 can't  
> really cope with the pictures from my digital camera. I've picked out a  
> box to buy, but I need to rethink my backup strategy now that I have  
> more than a CD's worth of photos. Plan A is to start archiving in a  
> logical manner onto DVD. Plan B being SW raid which has the advantage  
> of being easy once setup but useless against theft. What do you all  
> actually use to backup your data and does it work well?

I back up to dvds every 6 months or so. I've just bought a linkstation
NAS box and plan on flashing the firmware so I can put debian on it and
use rsync and cron to do nightly backups in addition to the DVDs.

> Secondly I'm thinking of getting a camera so that I can use instant  
> messaging to video chat with my apple owning friends. Sadly the SW side  
> of things looks grim, gaim used to be better than the official win32  
> clients but development seems to have stopped, is there a client out  
> there which will easily interface with the AIM network nd which  
> supports video?
> 
I think nearly all GAIM work stopped while they worked on GAIM2 which
has took a long time but has had several betas out now, and from memory
should be out quarter one next year.

Dean

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