pete_c
Guru
On the Linux side of stuff been shrinking my stuff to mostly single function application stuff tiny stuff. Never breaks. It just works most of the time. (today its running on a variety of "portable" memory devices (USB and SSD)).
The seagate dockstar running mcsSprinklers on Archlinux backs itself up every night. It is using two memory sticks. Now running about two years like this. Utilize Smoothwall for a firewall; now building a PFSense firewall box; way different than Smoothwall. .
Recently I built a 2Gb XBMC box using the flash memory that is soldered into one device. I did do a lot of playing with it in vivo using ssh and would boot up with a generic Linux Mint "doo what" and just command line DD the working stuff on the flash memory to an image file on another USB stick. If I toast (brick) the flash memory then I just reformat it as the boot bios chip (another flash chip) remains intact and is replaceable.
This is though on a little atom based table top capacitance screen tablet. I have also found some nice backup utilities utilizing the Linux gui's. Recently using mostly BTRFS have downgraded a bit to using EXT4; playing with it some then upgrading the build to BTRFS. Mostly because its easier to resize the partitions in EXT4 then it is in BTRFS (that is me though). I also like using the GUI GParted Linux version. Quick.
The seagate dockstar running mcsSprinklers on Archlinux backs itself up every night. It is using two memory sticks. Now running about two years like this. Utilize Smoothwall for a firewall; now building a PFSense firewall box; way different than Smoothwall. .
Recently I built a 2Gb XBMC box using the flash memory that is soldered into one device. I did do a lot of playing with it in vivo using ssh and would boot up with a generic Linux Mint "doo what" and just command line DD the working stuff on the flash memory to an image file on another USB stick. If I toast (brick) the flash memory then I just reformat it as the boot bios chip (another flash chip) remains intact and is replaceable.
This is though on a little atom based table top capacitance screen tablet. I have also found some nice backup utilities utilizing the Linux gui's. Recently using mostly BTRFS have downgraded a bit to using EXT4; playing with it some then upgrading the build to BTRFS. Mostly because its easier to resize the partitions in EXT4 then it is in BTRFS (that is me though). I also like using the GUI GParted Linux version. Quick.