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The PT410X thread: Linux/BSD and Open Source Software for users and beginners!
celticgeek:
My approach has been to use an external hard drive (i use Thermaltake BlacX dual bay docking station for this purpose) and do a complete backup of my data every couple of months).
The data that I back up is about 450 Gbytes, and it takes a while, but is relatively easy to do, just copy everything over to a folder on one of the external hard drives.
I am using Mint 14 at this point.
ankhtahr:
Okay, so I am currently fighting with Asterisk. I have no knowledge about telephony, so this is a little bit difficult to me. What I want to achieve is have all the 14 phone numbers I have arrive on my Cisco phone at home. I have the SIP firmware on the phone, so that won't be a problem. What could be a problem is running this asterisk behind the NAT of my router, but I don't think that should be such a big problem because I only want clients from the LAN to be able to use that server. What will be a problem is creating a dialplan and config for Asterisk, because those config files are kinda confusing, and Asterisk is such a big piece of software that there's far too much config for what I need.
hedgie:
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Anybody have any recommendations for something that's easy to use and works? Keep in mind I'm not a coder.
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How comfortable are you with the command line?
Stoon:
--- Quote from: hedgie on 26 Aug 2014, 19:12 ---
--- Quote from: Stoon on 26 Aug 2014, 12:03 ---
Anybody have any recommendations for something that's easy to use and works? Keep in mind I'm not a coder.
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How comfortable are you with the command line?
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I don't mind it just as long as the instructions are in English. People tend to say something like "That's easy, just do a ...." and then lapse into obscure codese. Or they skip steps assuming you know stuff.
This reminds me, the new edition of Linux for Dummies was supposed to come out in June, I should see if the book store has it.
hedgie:
I was just asking since it's pretty easy to do an automatic, versioning backup using rsync, and it doesn't really take much coding, just messing with one's crontab a bit. I'll try to dig up the actual script (it's not very long). I'm not much of a coder either, but when I used to have a Mac, I had to get friendly with the terminal in order to actually *do* anything, since Apple locks-down the interface so much to keep the window-lickers from causing too much damage.
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