[ale] Meeting topic idea - Best Practices for your home network

[Cliff Free]

I'm definitely interested. My data's getting too big to keep doing
tarball-to-DVD backups, so I'd love to hear what the more experienced
ppl have to say.

On 6/5/06, tfreeman at intel.digichem.net <tfreeman at intel.digichem.net> wrote:
>
> You get this pulled off, and I'll have to wander down the old I85 corredor
> to see the show.
>
> On Mon, 5 Jun 2006, Chris Farris wrote:
>
> > So I was pondering how best to store my collection of mp3s, movies,
> > rsynced server backups, email dating back to 1993, etc. I came up with
> > an idea for an ALE meeting that would be interesting for beginners and
> > experiences linux types alike.
> >
> > The idea is a best practices panel discussion of our more interesting
> > gurus, Mike Warfield, Dennis Boylan, Vernard Martin, etc. Prior to the
> > meeting ppl would email questions to the moderator (I'll volunteer for
> > that role), and I'd combine them into thoughtful questions for the panel.
> >
> > Would this be of interest to ALE members? Are there any guru's that
> > would commit to participating?
> >
> > If this format works out we can do best practices panel discussions for
> > lots of topics, but I think the first topic should be limited to home
> > network issues. What do I consider home network? Storage and backup is
> > one topic. Firewalls and routers, email storage and indexing (for when
> > you have over a decade of email to search) Linux/Windows/Mac
> > interoperability, etc. Cost is a major factor in home networks, we don't
> > have the same big budgets as our employers.
> >
> > Chris
> >
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