The new site is up and I am in the process of getting a few articles out by the end of the month, I'm already off to a late start. I've been super busy at work with lot's of tasks and issues, the primary, having to develop a solid backup solution for our Chico, CA office. Before and during the weekend, we had power failures, all faults lie on PG&E, and found out that:
Most of our client workstations battery backup units did not work,
The configs on our main routers were lost due to not copying the running config to the correct flash disk
We could quickly rebuild the entire router config for our Chico, CA branch off of memory alone (Lucky)
Our Overall Backup Solutions Sucked
As far as the I.T. budget goes this year, we have reached a limit till the new year, so I've gone with Open Source options. For the routers a simple TFTP Backup Server and the addition a couple commands, the Router, ASA, and PIX configs are being backed up frequently. For the Servers in the Chico branch, I needed offsite backups of my local backups. I've tried Bacula, Zmanda, and DeltaCopy + Rsync. Due to hardware limitations and availability I had issues with these and failed originally. I have now moved on to BackupPC with a Debian Server host and rsyncd for windows. So far so good for the first couple servers. I'm running out of time and bandwidth. I'll be pasting my full howto and solution in the coming weeks.
I am also in the process of currently testing out Google Wave. My invitees have received their invitations so I am just now getting familiar. I wjust with I could embed google spreadsheets already, theres things I want to test but can't!
At work we have used our own Email servers to provide email for our employees. The servers were built in 2006 with Suse Enterprise Linux 10. It's been a pain in the ass trying to update these boxes, let alone remotely. Our first decision was to go to Qmail or Sendmail from Postfix, but we are thinking of fully switching over to Google Apps for our employees. To do this, we need to convince management. I am currently laying out an article that details our process of evaluating our employees and solutions, and putting that information together to produce a proposal that can easily win over Management.
The new site is up and I am in the process of getting a few articles out by the end of the month, I'm already off to a late start. I've been super busy at work with lot's of tasks and issues, the primary, having to develop a solid backup solution for our Chico, CA office. Before and during the weekend, we had power failures, all faults lie on PG&E, and found out that:
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