March 2005
Beginner to intermediate
342 pages
15h 55m
English
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Make Network Backups #83
Chapter 9, Administration and Automation
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This display is easy to read on a laptop even in bright sunshine, making it an
ideal tool for outdoor work. The histogram slowly sweeps to the left, giving
you a history of the last few moments of wireless connectivity. Wavemon
runs in a terminal, so you can easily run more than one instance to monitor
multiple radio links simultaneously.
When you need a high performance signal and noise meter for Linux, Wave-
mon is hard to beat. The current version is available from Freshmeat at http://
freshmeat.net/projects/wavemon/.
—Rob Flickenger
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#83
Make Network Backups Hack #83
No need for cumbersome tapes and disks; save your precious data across a
network.
The cost of computing is so low that it is not uncommon to have more than
one computer in a house. Increasingly, people are buying many computers,
networking them together, and using them for different purposes. For exam-
ple, in my home are two Linux boxes, one Linux server, one Linux firewall,
two Windows machines, and a Mac. With a large number of computers,
each with important data on it, backups of that data become a very real and
important issue to consider.
The natural assumption when faced with a need to perform backups is to
use a medium such as tape or a CD/DVD. But in this hack you are going to
Figure 9-4. Pretty little scrolling waves of data.
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