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Backup laptops mac address in local network

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http://serverfault.com – I am looking for a good method to automatically clone directories from laptops that is currently connected to the local network to a server on the same local network at a regular interval in a small office environment. The server runs Ubuntu and the laptops runs various GNU/Linux distros or OSX. There are also a few Windows laptops but somthing like cygwin could be used on them for compability. As people come and go and takes their laptops with them there is no guarantee that a full backup could be run before the laptop is disconnected or shutdown. My idea is something like register the exi (HowTos)

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Submitted by taskli on 01/08/2013

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I support a bunch of road warriors how either plug into our network or connect wirelessly as convenient. My question: how do I distribute the same IP address to the same laptop regardless if they are wireless or wired ?

80% of them will leave their laptops in the office overnight so I can complete a backup of their data but its hard to do if my dhcp server (Fedora) hands them a different IP a

I saw these laptops at the Ubuntu website.

http://www.ubuntu.com/certification/...ategory=Laptop

It says here that these laptops are certified by Ubuntu. It says that these laptops are certified. Particularly I am looking at the laptops with hybrid graphics, but how sure am I that these laptops will run well under Ubuntu? Is the driver pre-installed?

I moved from win.7 to Ubuntu (Unity) on all my machines and really like it. There is just one issue I just can't solve.

I have 3 machines at home - a desktop (with no monitor, keyboard and mouse connected) and two laptops.

The desktop is connected by a cable to the router and the laptops are connected with a solid wireless connection.

The connection quality inside the local network and outside

Is there anyway to backup various laptops/desktops connected through my network to my server.

I can put any kind of operating system on this server. I was thinking maybe there is some type of clonezilla that will work for this task.

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SSH in local wireless network 3 years 30 weeks ago

Hello everybody.

I've been using ssh recently to access a schools supercomputer, and that made me wonder if I could somehow do the same between my home machines.

I figure that if I get my machines (2) into a wired network I can make them 'see' each other (and interact through ssh), in fact I used to control one PC from another using VNC.

I've built an Internet service that's going to handle a few hundred simultaneous users. It'll run smoothly on a grid of VMWare+Windows 2008 servers.

Why can't I use laptops instead of traditional towers and rack-mountable servers for my hardware infrastructure? No one ever does this. I'm sure there's a good reason for it. But what is it?

I recently set up DHCP reservations in my Ubuntu Server-based DHCP server. So far it's working well. However, I have three laptops on the network that will get a reserved DHCP address, and I'm wondering if I can assign the same IP address to the wireless cards and to the integrated wired cards.

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I have two laptops (both wifi enabled) and a wireless router. I want to use one of the laptop on a robot and other laptop to SSH into the first one. My question is that is it possible to connect the two pcs even if I dont have a modem or internet and just use the wifi router? If so how to do that?