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Title: Ubuntu 11.04
Post by: pmp6nl on April 27, 2011, 10:12:31 AM
(http://www.ubuntu.com/countdown/banner2.png)

Only one day left until the new version of Ubuntu Linux is out!  If you dont know what Ubuntu is check out the Ubuntu Wikipedia Article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_%28operating_system%29).  Check out some of Ubuntu's features (http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop/features).

Im excited!  (BTW below is Tux, the Linux mascot)

:tux:
Title: Re: Ubuntu 11.04
Post by: Sal Atticum on April 27, 2011, 10:22:58 AM
Man, I swear I just managed to get my server upgraded to the last version...
Title: Re: Ubuntu 11.04
Post by: pmp6nl on April 27, 2011, 12:15:11 PM
Man, I swear I just managed to get my server upgraded to the last version...

What version you running the server on?
Title: Re: Ubuntu 11.04
Post by: Sal Atticum on April 27, 2011, 01:02:31 PM
Uhhh...looks like 10.04.
Title: Re: Ubuntu 11.04
Post by: pmp6nl on April 27, 2011, 01:29:41 PM
Uhhh...looks like 10.04.

You could keep it at 10.04, thats what my server runs on.  10.04 was designed as a long term release, meaning they will continue to release updates and support it for a long time.  I only recommend upgrading to 11.04 if its for your laptop or desktop computer, not servers (though servers should run fine on it).
Title: Re: Ubuntu 11.04
Post by: Sal Atticum on April 27, 2011, 01:37:43 PM
Thats what I was thinking.  The upgrade through 9 was painful (I recall) because of the difficulty mounting shared drives over the network, which is why I ended up moving to 10.04 in the first place.  As long as things keep working, I'll be happy with it on my old machine.

Here's a question: I have a drive mounted over the network that I am using Synkron to do backups on, but after a while of copying the drive seems to lock up (the light keeps flashing but I can't access it from any computer on the network).  Do you think that's a hard drive problem, a NAS problem (the drive is plugged into an Apple Time Machine), or something with Ubuntu?

Backups are a grizzly bear to get right.  I think I'll move the drive to plug into the server and just access it (on the rare occasions I need to) over the Internet through FTP--but I'd rather be able to mount it as a drive in OS X from my laptop so I can run backups onto it from there as well.

In any case, I need to get Ubuntu on a decent machine so I can see how well it really works!
Title: Re: Ubuntu 11.04
Post by: pmp6nl on April 27, 2011, 05:04:11 PM
Im planning on sticking with 10.04 for years -- until I get bored and decide to redo the entire server in a couple of years.

Is your network setup like this:

(http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1243306/cd/other/sal_network.jpg)

Do you mount the drive over the network through the mac's os or Synkron?  I am not too familiar with Synkron, have you tried using rsync, there are plenty of guis for it that work on mac... If you give rsync a try you might be able to figure out where the problem lies by comparing...

I don't think its an Ubuntu problem if you have anything setup correctly, have you tried accessing the server or drive from another computer?

Let me know so I can further help out.

--

You could always dual boot Ubuntu on your laptop!

Title: Re: Ubuntu 11.04
Post by: Sal Atticum on April 28, 2011, 07:38:17 AM
That's it, except the Time Machine also acts as a router.  The drive is mounted (on the Mac side) with Macfusion and on the Ubuntu side with fstab.  I would gladly just use sftp for everything except Synkron won't see the drive as far as I can determine (on the Mac side).  If that were the case I wouldn't have a problem plugging the external right into the Ubuntu machine and then sftp-ing in to do backups.

For the record, I'm using Time Machine for most backups but I have a folder of files I periodically update and am trying to do this automatically.  I think I may have solved my own problem, it's the Ubuntu drive I'm mounting via Macfusion, not the external.  Hmm.
Title: Re: Ubuntu 11.04
Post by: pmp6nl on April 28, 2011, 11:20:23 AM
So you were just mounting the wrong drive?  If you cant get Synkron to work correctly I would look into rsync.  Rsync will do a good job of automatically keeping stuff synced, whereas sftp is more manual.  I guess it depends on how you want your network/backup setup.  I backup online, but my Ubuntu server can also backup my entire network and it serves as my media center and a webserver for testing stuff.  I guess it depends on what exactly you want to do and how you want to do it.

Are you just using the server as a webserver or does it also do other stuff?