Firewall

[Mark Holbert]

Funny this should come up.  I good friend of mine just last weekend had a
huge spike in the power that fried the power supply in his main computer and
the hard drive in his Linux/firewall box.  He didn't even know that the
Linux box had a problem, as it was slinging packets just fine, until a day
later when he went to log in.

On that note...he is looking for a solution for backing up that box and
another Win box in his home.  The old QIK-80 isn't enough, CD-R's don't hold
much info and two hard drives seems like a waste in this machine.  Any
suggestions?  Please keep in mind that he is looking for cheaper solutions
as this is a home network.

Thanks in advance.
Mark Holbert

>>Why would you ever have to reboot?? (sorry for the wise ass remark just
>>couldn't resist.) <g>

>Actually I see this as one of the biggest down falls of linux in general.
>After having uptimes of several months with no maintance or reboots needed
>you never know what kind of fire wall rules, kernel customizations, deamons
>you started 6 months ago and such that are not going to come up on reboot.
>This can obviously open up several security holes that you thought were
>fixed.

>At least with Windows you get to test and make sure that yours servers are
>going to come back up daily.  (Sometimes more often than just daily.) I
>hink that the kernel needs a few more hard locking bugs and perhaps a
>"blue screen of death" to really fit into the coorprate world.

>PS. If you couldn't see the sarcasm dripping off of all that please
disregard
>the entire message.
>Thankyou