With hard disks getting larger by the month, keeping all your data backed up can be tricky. Raid will give you reliability, but no possibility of taking your data off-site, and tape drives are expensive.

I found myself needing to keep backups of an 80GB raid array for a small office server, and recalled an article I had read a few months ago in Linux Journal. The article details how you can keep snapshot backups of thumb drives on your harddisk... and that made me think doing the reverse should be workable too.

I'm not sure why, but it seems pretty tricky to find a v0.7 copy of the lightning extension for thunderbird on amd64. (Ubuntu Gutsy only comes with v0.5)

This is the version that supports remote calendars and is as such much more useful than the versions that don't.

I had a go at changing the targetPlatform tag in the i686 package yesterday, but that resulted in my Thunderbird being broken and not even displaying mail correctly. Not good.

Anyway, to make a long story short, today I compiled one and please find attached lightning 0.7 for x86_64.

Now I'm not allowed to vote in two and a bit weeks time, but that doesn't mean I don't enjoy anything that mocks the current prime minister. This clip was made by a friend of a friend :-)

Or see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TwlaaX7xDw