Roasted
September 28th, 2009, 04:36 PM
For a simple backup SAN that won't be accessed or used much at all, besides it being set up and being existent, would it be a good idea to somehow enable updates so you automatically download and install all updates?
Scenario - Whenever I get out of the house, I'm obviously taking my computer with me. I have a hard drive in my computer that acts as a backup drive that the other computers (XP) synchronize to via Samba every day. I was going to redo my setup and put that backup drive in a spare rig I have when I leave, which is P4 1gb RAM.
I was thinking about just running Ubuntu Server, turning it on, and walking away, leaving it to do its job for all eternity.
Should I somehow enable automatically installing all updates? I figure it'd be a good idea because, to be frank, even if an update comes through that breaks something, if the thing doesn't run for a week, two weeks, whatever, it's not a REALLY big deal... but that's also banking on there being an update that I'd auto install later to fix whatever issue arises.
Is that a smart idea?
And uh - to be blunt - how would I even do that via command line?
Scenario - Whenever I get out of the house, I'm obviously taking my computer with me. I have a hard drive in my computer that acts as a backup drive that the other computers (XP) synchronize to via Samba every day. I was going to redo my setup and put that backup drive in a spare rig I have when I leave, which is P4 1gb RAM.
I was thinking about just running Ubuntu Server, turning it on, and walking away, leaving it to do its job for all eternity.
Should I somehow enable automatically installing all updates? I figure it'd be a good idea because, to be frank, even if an update comes through that breaks something, if the thing doesn't run for a week, two weeks, whatever, it's not a REALLY big deal... but that's also banking on there being an update that I'd auto install later to fix whatever issue arises.
Is that a smart idea?
And uh - to be blunt - how would I even do that via command line?