[01:29] <BugeyeD> my laptop battery indicator shows RED - "only" 1hr 25 minutes left. i love my circa 1995 laptop. :)
[04:44] <holstein> BugeyeD: i let mine go the other day :/
[04:45] <holstein> took it to the recycler
[12:08] <BugeyeD> holstein: what cpu type?
[12:09] <BugeyeD> mine is a centrino, 1ghz i think, with 512MB ram. as small as today's netbooks, but mine has an optical drive. :) refuses to boot from usb, though.
[12:10] <BugeyeD> also the first laptop with built-in cellular service (att) which i never used because *nix never supported the hardware.
[12:10] <BugeyeD> sony vaio vgn-t350p
[12:10] <BugeyeD> keyboard is a bit on the small side, but that's my ONLY complaint.
[12:11] <BugeyeD> okay, that's a lie. video has been a pain off and on, but when that works it works great.
[13:17] <holstein> BugeyeD: did you try plop ?
[13:17] <holstein> ive had decent luck forcing USB boot with plop
[13:17] <holstein> the dell i had was a 500hmz with 256 of ram
[13:19] <holstein> one of the small ones with no CD-rom drive onboard
[13:19] <holstein> it was like a pre-netbook in most every way
[13:36] <BugeyeD> holstein: i was able to "boot" from usb using something or other, just not from the bios.
[13:37] <holstein> its such a convenience, when you go back to no USB boot, its odd
[13:38] <BugeyeD> just found a screenshot of plop - that's definitely what i used
[13:38] <holstein> hehe.. its cool :)
[13:39] <holstein> got the galaxy.gif or whatever
[14:16] <BugeyeD> akgraner: wrt the grub issue mentioned earlier, this appears to have fixed my particular issue:
[14:16] <BugeyeD> GRUB_GFXMODE=1024x768    --> /etc/default/grub
[14:16] <akgraner> oh good
[14:16] <BugeyeD> i was unable to figure out what mode grub was using that was out-of-range for the monitor
[14:17] <BugeyeD> so now i'm back on track. just have to get the user data moved back over and deliver.
[14:17] <akgraner> glad it worked out for you!
[14:17] <BugeyeD> anyone here use lvm snapshots?
[14:18] <akgraner> I was broken last week somehow in one of the updates - when you rebooted it removed unity
[14:18] <BugeyeD> akgraner: me too. of course this isn't even a linux issue. which is why it was so lost.
[14:18] <akgraner> it was crazy - it's fixed now
[14:18] <BugeyeD> removed unity? as in deinstalled?
[14:18] <akgraner> yep..it was a bug
[14:18] <akgraner> they fixed it
[14:18] <BugeyeD> i'll say. wow.
[14:19] <akgraner> which is why I am not upgrading to the alpha on my main machine
[14:19] <akgraner> I'll see what else wonky is happening and may even wait til Final release to upgrade this time
[14:20] <BugeyeD> server-side, in general, i use solaris10 or freebsd. and take advantage of zfs, which has snapshotting capabilities. i'm looking for something similar for linux boxes. does lvm snapshots work in this capacity for anyone here?
[14:20] <BugeyeD> my main boxes have to be stable, else i get no work done. so i'm hesitant. i'm still at 10.10 on my main linux dual-headed box.
[14:21] <BugeyeD> and have only been there for a few months.
[14:22] <BugeyeD> hi all. server-side, in general, i use solaris10 or freebsd. and take advantage of zfs, which has snapshotting capabilities. i'm looking for something similar for linux boxes. does lvm snapshots work in this capacity for anyone here?
[15:00] <BugeyeD> fwiw, i'm not looking for a howto - i can figure it out on my own and plan to write a program to handle it anyway. i'm mostly looking for gotchas or pains that others may warn me about in order to save myself some time/suffering.
[17:13] <internalkernel> BugeyeD: on the trilug mailing list there was someone just talking about how to use LVM to manage snapshots, one of the guys referenced a presentation he did a while back... he said he uses LVM on everything... I was meaning to check out what he was talking about... having had a moment though... http://trilug.org/
[17:15] <internalkernel> do you (or anyone) use rsync to do incremental backups? I'm trying to sort this out in my head...
[20:38] <BugeyeD> internalkernel: thanks, i'll take a peek
[20:40] <BugeyeD> and yes, i use rsync for 300+ servers nightly. works like a champ. been using it for a decade at least.
[20:41] <BugeyeD> internalkernel: rsync nightly to same spot every time. following the rsync, snapshot (target side). rinse, repeat. you now have versioned snapshots/backups.
[20:42] <BugeyeD> i use zfs for the storage/snapshots, with all kinds of things as sources. i'm looking for a similar function with linux and figured lvm snaps might do the trick.
[21:04] <internalkernel> BugeyeD: nice, I saw that trick with ZFS - I answered my own question... I was confused about --link-dest, but... then I thought about it. :D