2009.02.11 MEETING NOTES

Meeting is held at the Lawrence HQ Branch of the Mercer County Library System.

Rt #1 & Darrah Lane Lawrenceville, NJ

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Chris starts the meeting – 19:25 - about 15 people so far, some new faces tonight.

Disaster Recovery is tonight's Theme.

Chris is going to start member introductions, tonight's question for intro's is to tell us briefly about you worst “disaster recovery”

excellent member disaster recover stories tonight!

Baseball Outing July 18th, 2009 – Saturday night – not sure about tickets;

• Cloud Computing: Amazon EC2;
• Is this is the future? {some debate about the utility}

Survey – what tools are you using for backup/recovery/rescue in the Linux/FOSS environment?

• Amanda - http://www.amanda.org/
• Bacula - http://bacula.org/en/
• SyncBackPro - http://www.2brightsparks.com/syncback/sbpro.html
• tar - {see the man page}
• Rsync – {see the man page}
• cpio – {throw that crap out}
• rdiff-backup – http://www.gnu.org/savannah-checkouts/non-gnu/rdiff-backup/
• dump (terrible) - http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net/
• BackupPC (multi-protocol [tar, rsync, smb] for Unix/Windows machines)
• Unison - http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/
• Clonezilla - http://clonezilla.org/

Disk Analysis:

• Kdirstat - http://kdirstat.sourceforge.net/
• Filelight - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filelight

Forensics: (boot cds) – good for Windows workstations/servers too!

• BackTrack 3.0 - http://wiki.remote-exploit.org/index.php/Main_Page
• Deft Linux - http://www.deftlinux.net/about/
• Trinity Rescue Kit - http://trinityhome.org/Home/index.php?wpid=1&front_id=12
• System Rescue CD - http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page
• Gparted - http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php
• RIP Linux - http://www.tux.org/pub/people/kent-robotti/looplinux/rip/

LUG/IP – Linux Users Group in Princeton – Monthly Meeting – 11-FEB-2009 – 19:00 – Darrah Ln.