Thanks

Now it works fine for me. But there where to spelling mistakes in part 4 of this section, that crashed my system:
You wrote:
> 4. In the same file (/etc/ufw/before.rules), locate the line -A ufw-before-output -o lo -j ACCEPT and add these lines right after:
> -A ufw-before-input -i tap0 -j ACCEPT
> -A ufw-before-output -o tap0 -j ACCEPT

Instead of ufw-before-output -o … it has to be ufw-before-output -i

I am ‘new’ to rdiff-backup. I’m not really happy with the online docs and wiki sites (for rdiff-backup) but with a little patience I know it will do ‘everything’ I want and desperately need.

Sure there are a lot of good backup apps like amanda, backuppc; but rdiff-backup is really the most powerful and ‘simple’ tool for the job.

I’m not the best script programmer – so your ‘script’ is a great start for me; and I can easily modify it to suit my own needs.

The only thing really missing from your ‘setup’ – is a bootable CD distro with the required rdiff-backup packages on-board (loaded). It’s only a want to have – not a must have; since bare-metal restores are not going to happen every day; but and it’s a big BUT – I’m a sysadmin for a LARGE server farm and ‘IF’ I had a really bad SAN failure and had to rebuild EVERYTHING; then having a bootable CD recovery disk would make things faster, less stressful etc.

So, I going to try to build a custom usb/CD and possibly a PXE-boot loader image (just in-case).

I’ll try to post/send it to you when I have something ready.

BFN,

Thanks for your blog Linux rules… to infinity and beyond!

You can install your copy of Windows on *one* machine, virtual or not. You CANNOT legally use the same copy of Windows on two or more logically-unique machines. The fact that one machine is virtual does not circumvent this restriction. Read the full EULA here:

http://www.microsoft.com/About/Legal/EN/US/IntellectualProperty/UseTerms/Default.aspx

As for your “Single User (Student)” copy, because *you* bought the software, *you* are licensing it from Microsoft. I would imagine it follows the same license restrictions as any copy of Windows. (“Single user” actually means “single machine;” any number of people can use it while it’s installed to that machine, even if they have separate user accounts [hence, "install for all users"].)

As to differences, there’s only one that I can see, and it’s negligible since Windows 7 uses RDP 7.0. When you edit group policy (gpedit.msc) to change the max color depth, it’s under “Local Computer Policy > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Remote Desktop Services > Remote Desktop Session Host > Remote Session Environment > Limit maximum color depth.” By default it’s set to “No,” so you don’t even need to change it.

There are two reasons I wish to use 7:
My copy is supposed to be a Single User (Student) copy and it happens to be my primary Operating System on this computer. I know Microsoft doesn’t usually do anything if you install these to ‘multiple machines’.

1.) Reason one is the legal reason, although I’d technically be installing it twice I’m still only using Win7 on one machine (and only one at a time).

2.) Since Win 7 is my Primary OS it will be much easier to keep my settings in sync if I use Win 7 in my Virtual Machine.

Speaking synchronizing settings: I was curious if I could somehow set this up to a folder and use Symbolic Links to keep certain data synced (that’s what I do with WINE but, Wine doesn’t always support the newest versions like I keep on Windows and is still extremely limited).

Lastly (before I forget): I was wondering if I could somehow use this sort of virtualization setup to work with Compressed NTFS files better (at current Mail and Torrents won’t work compressed).