Personal Backups
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Submitted by
jccooper.
on 2008-01-02 12:08.
Rice provides a backup space for everybody, and we should probably use it. It's not too hard...
My father's firm recently had all of its machines stolen, and it got me to
thinking that while we may not be totally destroyed by machine loss of some
sort, it would sure be inconvenient, and I have plenty of stuff that isn't
version-controlled (and other people probably have more.)
Since we don't have homedir backups, I figured I'd set up to dump stuff into
storage.rice.edu. Here's
Rice IT's page on
mounting under Linux and
under Windows (it's an SMB share), which works, with a few addendums:
- You'll need sudo or root to get this done.
- Debian/Ubuntu machines will probably need the 'smbfs' package installed--it doesn't come standard, or even with Samba!
- This mounts up at the top of the server. Your space will be under mountpoint/x/xavier (if your username were xavier.) The mount filesystem string doesn't seem to be very flexible, so I don't know that this can be altered to mount directly into your storage space. Perhaps storage.rice.edu should be mounted to a central place and your particular directory linked in.
- I'm using the mountpoint /ricestorage right now.
Stay tuned; more information as I figure stuff out.
