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On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 17:18:23 +0000 Tom Potts wrote: > On Thursday 13 March 2008 11:59, Julian Hall wrote: > > Tom Potts wrote: > > > Do any of the ISP backup/restore things (as so infuriatingly > > > advertised by BT) work easily with Linux? > > > Tom te tom te tom > > > > Personally I would not trust a third party to host my private > > documents. I'd much rather get an external USB drive and back it up > > myself. That way I know: > Just to re-iterate - I'm trying to push rehashed Linux PC's to the > unsuspecting public and wondering if Linux can easily be backed up to > these hosted storage areas without having to have some crappy > proprietary software to get started. I know a lot of ISP's have to be > kick started in Windows but then run fine in Linux but thats no good > for me trying to throw machines out the door at people > Tom te tom te tom If your ISP has this, then I would get a WinXP machine to run the software and monitor what happens on the network with another machine running Wireshark. I can't imagine all these ISPs popping up with this "backup solution" will each have invented their own protocol(s), so it's really only a question of finding out which one(s) they're using. Grant. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html