http://hol.net.nz/home/ http://hol.net.nz/blog/backups-are-go/#PageComment_144168 Thanks for the info. I will be trying this tonight on my shiny new Zimbra install. --Mike Mon, 07 Dec 2009 06:03:15 +1300 Mike http://hol.net.nz/blog/backups-are-go/#PageComment_144168 http://hol.net.nz/blog/kubuntu-with-fakeraid/#PageComment_13 Cheers mate, glad you found it useful. The changes you needed to make are most likely because you're using x64, which I'm not touching at the moment on desktop machines (makes flash and java etc a lot easier!). Its probably too late for you now, but if you're not using Windows you're probably better off using Linux's software raid rather than fakeraid - the performance is about the same, and it is a hell of a lot easier to set up! Fakeraid is only really useful if you dualboot to Windows and you want them to share data on a raid setup. Thu, 12 Feb 2009 22:40:40 +1300 al http://hol.net.nz/blog/kubuntu-with-fakeraid/#PageComment_13 http://hol.net.nz/blog/backup-your-lamp/#PageComment_11 @Keith: -aHk should do what you need - the -a (archive) preserves file permissions, dates etc, but leaves links alone. the -H means hard-linked files are included, and the -k makes rsync copy symlinked files into the backup as if they were really there. @Benjamin: Cool, I'll have to take a look at that. Rsync on its own can also do this, utilizing Linux's hard links. I do it on our work servers. At some stage I'll post a howto for setting that up. @Others: Thanks for your comments - I'm glad you find this stuff helpful Thu, 12 Feb 2009 22:31:51 +1300 al http://hol.net.nz/blog/backup-your-lamp/#PageComment_11 http://hol.net.nz/blog/00000080-bytes-of-pain/#PageComment_6 No, I haven't overclocked mine. For some reason the motherboard says my CPU temp is 100 deg! I'm pretty sure it isn't , as there is no smoking hole in my PC, but I'm not going to overclock it if I can't monitor the temperature. I think in the end I actually got the 3GHz CPU anyway... Do you get the temperature reading issue? Thu, 12 Feb 2009 22:13:22 +1300 al http://hol.net.nz/blog/00000080-bytes-of-pain/#PageComment_6 http://hol.net.nz/blog/zimbra-on-ubuntu/#PageComment_4 Cheers, glad you enjoy it! Thu, 12 Feb 2009 22:07:22 +1300 al http://hol.net.nz/blog/zimbra-on-ubuntu/#PageComment_4 http://hol.net.nz/blog/kubuntu-with-fakeraid/#PageComment_12 You sir, deserve a medal. This works and it works really well. I adapted this to Ubuntu Desktop 8.10 amd-64, using an Nvida nForce4 integrated chipset, and have installed the system onto a 2TB RAID 0 across 4 500GB disks. (For more details google: HP ProLiant ML115) I only had to make a few changes. Primarily, I had to use GParted to setup the partitions. Both fdisk and parted failed to properly read/write the MBR. As a bonus however, no reboot is required after partitioning with GParted. The size of my disk may have been the problem. Other changes were small, like my grub directory (/usr/lib/grub/x86_64-pc) and making a directory in /boot (below). Also, i skipped all the windows stuff. I switched to Ubuntu because it became impossible to run windows on my machine (too many hardware incompatibilities). Also, you may need to append this to your guide, after apt-get update and install dmraid on /target. I don't know if this exists after installation fails in kubuntu, but it doesn't in ubuntu. "mkdir /boot/grub" Thu, 20 Nov 2008 05:12:15 +1300 quequotation http://hol.net.nz/blog/kubuntu-with-fakeraid/#PageComment_12 http://hol.net.nz/blog/zimbra-on-ubuntu/#PageComment_3 Good pages and design! Thanks webmaster! Tue, 02 Sep 2008 13:25:17 +1200 Alexis http://hol.net.nz/blog/zimbra-on-ubuntu/#PageComment_3 http://hol.net.nz/blog/zimbra-on-ubuntu/#PageComment_2 Nice good blog! Sat, 02 Aug 2008 00:01:36 +1200 Sharon http://hol.net.nz/blog/zimbra-on-ubuntu/#PageComment_2 http://hol.net.nz/blog/backup-your-lamp/#PageComment_9 Clean and neat. Tue, 29 Jul 2008 04:14:04 +1200 Kenny http://hol.net.nz/blog/backup-your-lamp/#PageComment_9 http://hol.net.nz/blog/backup-your-lamp/#PageComment_10 I'm curious as to your choices for rsync options, -aHk. I have a directory I need backed up that's soft linked in multiple places. I only want to back it up once and preserve the soft links... Does this convert all those to hard links? Tue, 29 Jul 2008 04:14:04 +1200 Keith Valeba http://hol.net.nz/blog/backup-your-lamp/#PageComment_10