[ale] My Raspberry π is here

[Jim Lynch]

On 10/17/2012 04:22 PM, Ron Frazier (ALE) wrote:
> Excellent ideas.  Many of these concepts would also be welcome for discussion over at the Atlanta Hobby Robot Club.  They love PI too.
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> http://www.botlanta.com/
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> Sincerely,
>
> Ron
>
>
A while back I was looking for a remote backup solution that was sort of 
bullet proof.  So I'm going to connect my Rpi to a USB hard drive, 
connect the power supply to a mechanical timer that will turn it off for 
15 minutes each day.  That way if something hangs or fails to boot due 
to bouncing mains, it'll get reset.   I'll configure the Rpi to listen 
to a non standard ssh port and configure the router to pass that port to 
the Rpi.  I'll be able to determine when the 15 minute period is 
scheduled by looking at the uptime and avoid running any backups around 
that time.

It should be a fun project.  There's no reason you couldn't do the same 
thing with a friend's Internet connection.  Have two identical systems 
and backup to each other's device.  Make sure you do backups during 
sleep time of course.

I really like having a remote system that I can ssh into and run 
rdiff-backup to it.

Jim.