Clonezilla

Hi Guys & Girls

I'm planning to reuse my old hw for a home server based on debian.
I want to provide my lan with 4 to 5 services like router/dhcp, tftp, pxe/fw, nfs-server, media-server, clonzilla-server, squid-dansguardian and eventually later on a small mta/webmail, horde solution.

How would you set this up?

An all-in-one machine running natively on the hw or separate vms @ kvm?
I would also like to have a stable and good manageable backup architecture, like using a central clonezilla server instance to pick up everything from the other services.

Greetings and thanks a lot

vi

Hi all

I got this interesting problem:

I have a server that has two ethernet connections, cabled up to the switch.

The server has a clonezilla liveboot cd in it which I am currently booting from. The clonezilla is a debian OS.

So from the cmd line I can see I have two eth interfaces that is connected, eth0 and 2.

Now I need to configure one of these two interfaces to do let clonezilla do its job.

The problem is that each of these two interfaces are going to different subnets. I got the two subnets, which we will just call them A and B. And I can't recall whether A belongs on eth0 or B belongs there.

Now I know there is a simple solution to this: config one and try it out. I could do that, in fact I will do that just to save time. But I was wondering, cause when I did ifconfig I can see from the packet counters that these two interfaces are live, if there is some other way to monitor these two interfaces, and by looking at the packets that is being sent to these interfaces, I can determine which interface goes with which subnet?

Or phrased another way: you just installed a new computer, and have plugged in the internet cable, but you forgot to put an IP address on it and really don't want to wait for your IT guy to come in on monday to tell you what your IP is and dhcp is not an option. What do you do?

Thanks
Feel free to ask questions if anything is not clear.

Hey guys,

From researching, I came across 3 different methods to do this; however, just need some recommendations.

my drive @ 150GB is out of memeory

-I have a spare 150GB memory that I can add for free. can I combine the 2 drives? or use a raid 5?

-but a new 1TB hard drive, use clonezilla to back it up and restore it back on the 1TB

-add the 2nd 150gb HD and use LVM?

what do you guys recommend

Hi,

I have created primary and Secondry Dns Server i am not getting any errors but master server transfer has started but zone files not updating...my doubt should i create create zone files else server itself create....

Am running a P4 @ 2.66 with Hardy Heron 8.04.4 .
Have googled a decent amount of commands for terminal to find out that alone.
Saw posts from 2004&9 that said to use Mysql server or Postgresql server to get the benchmark packages to cook the box.
I am going to try and read everything through commands, then decide on new distro.
1st Mint looks easy enduser. Ubuntu is looking kinda' commercial.
Ubuntu still looks like the distro to follow.
If you want to tell me a package that the synaptic will load and let me use, I thank you. All the us.ubuntu.olderversions. server addresses are worthless.
THX again
Paul

Hi Guys,

I'm new to this community and i just have a basic Linux knowledge especialy Ubuntu+ UbuntuServer. I'm Studying IT its my last year and im working on a thesis called "Windows Vs Linux". I'm trying to setup a virtual company environment in windows and the same in Linux. I want to compare the both... what are the pros and cons from both operating systems, stability, Security, managability, TCO,... . I did some research and stuff but for the Linux part its not easy... So i have a few questions, hopefully I'm getting some response. First of all I'm thinking of using Ubuntuserver LTS as server side OS and for the workclients Mint or ubuntu. Is this a good distro choice ?

My second and i think its the hardest part of setting up a manageable Linux Company environment is an Active directory alternative that offers the same functionality in Linux. Is this possible ? Ok you have like openlDAP and stuff but thats just basic authentication password and shit, but do you have something like GPOS for Linux ?

I'm hoping someone can help me out a bit

Grtz

I just read that in 2013 nasa stopped using windows and moved to linux quoting the need for a more stable ssystem with better security. They also said that they were using debian.

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/1...ed-reliability

They also use lenova thinkpads for the same reasons.

My question is, what is the functionality difference with debian? Is it more stable than other distributions? If ubuntu is Debian based, what is the difference?

I'm currently using ubuntu studio Distro and very happy with it but I'm very interested in the reasons why nasa use Debian.

Sorry if this has been discussed, im inclined to believe it has. Im getting that new machine on Friday and plan to create the partition immediately and install either one, i only said Ubuntu because i havent tried Mint (yet).

So would you mind telling me why you like Mint or why you like Ubuntu and why you prefer the one over the other. I will download some Mibt ISO's tomorrow, i have plenty Ubuntu's, CentOS, OpenSUSE, Kali, Gentoo and a cple others, just not Mint..

Also, i am in MPLS/St Paul, willing to pay for some help to tutor me around a couple config issues (cash-in person, perhaps a coffee shop meeting. (I hope thats not breaking a rule, i just need to tweak a cple issues and would love some hands on experience.

Thanks in advance

~cheers
Randy

Im looking for a distro for a web server (Apache).

Ive always used Ubuntu but I didnt think it was the best for the job so I looked around and found CentOS.

CentOS is great, really simple to use but I wanted the latest and greatest.

Im getting replies that CentOS is about stable and I cant put the latest so I see now that distro is not for me.

Im looking for a distro that is simple to setup to run a small website off of (no big traffic, if any) and with the latest possible to be installed. It will probably be Wordpress. What distros do you guys recommend that I can run cutting edge web server technology (talking Apache 2.4.12, MySQL 5.6.24, PHP 5.6.8, etc.) and upgrade as soon as a new version comes out.

hello all at linuxquestions

first off would just like to say how useful this resource is, Ive been setting up a VM server in lubuntu recently and this site has given me alot of help and helped me get it off the ground. Im certainly a linux noob and only been messing around in linux for a week, so please forgive me for any derpy terminology

anyway, I installed lubuntu onto a VM as an intention to use it as a server
to be honest it was an ISO I had lying around and due to it being "light" I just went for it

however I have since discovered ubuntu do a flavour known as "ubuntu server"

first off..
what is the difference between ubuntu server and regular ubuntu/lubuntu etc?
is it just that it does not load a full fat gui?
if there is a big diffrence would it be easy to "turn" lubuntu into ubuntu server? since they are sort of based off each other?

secondly, lubuntu loads up lxde upon boot, I was wondering if there was a way for it to just boot up without the gui with the option to turn it on via shell (startx etc)
this is because I have little ram to play with but I also like to use the GUI sometimes when needing to do certain admin stuff, for example I use steam via Wine to download steam games sometimes

I was pondering the idea of installing ubuntu server and then downloading the lxde desktop and going that route, but Im not sure if it would bring any benefit opposed to just modifiying my current lubuntu installation

any advise or tips would be welcome

thanks!