The Elvidge Family

Here's how I added sub domains to our website so we could point to different IP addresses (such as our office server).
1. Register with www.zoneedit.com and create a 'Zone' by specifying the domain you are using. This service is free if you do not exceed their bandwidth limits.

2. Login to your newly created zoneedit account and create the necessary records so your fasthosts hosting will still function after the dns transfer.
Choose 'Edit Zone' and select 'IP addresses (A) to add A records that will point to the right services. Enter A records for all the Fasthosts services as shown in their article here. Here's the list for your convenience (check this is up-to-date):

• webmail.yourdomain.co.uk - 213.171.216.231
• matrixstats.yourdomain.co.uk - 213.171.192.197
• sitebuilder.yourdomain.co.uk - 213.171.195.58
• ftp.yourdomain.co.uk - shown in your control panel
• mcp.yourdomain.co.uk - 213.171.195.22
• cp.yourdomain.co.uk - 213.171.195.47
• ssh.yourdomain.co.uk - 213.171.218.5
• exchange.yourdomain.co.uk - 213.171.192.50

Add the custom subdomains that you would like to add.

• custom.yourdomain.co.uk - your i.p. address

3. Delete Mailforward that was automatically created when you added the zone to zoneedit by going into 'MailForward' and deleting the entry.

4. Now go into 'Mailservers' and add an MX record for all the mail on your domain to be still sent to your fasthosts servers. Fasthosts instructions found here. BUT - make sure you check your fasthosts control panel (Mail) where it will tell you the correct external server. Here's what is says the entry should look like:

• domain (domain.com) server ( smtpin1.livemail.co.uk)

NB. You will also need to set up A records for the two mail servers used for accessing pop/smtp mail.

• mail.yourdomain.co.uk - ip address shown in Control Panel for mail
• smtpyourdomain.co.uk - ip address shown in Control Panel for mail

5. Now when zoneedit is all ready, you need to change the DNS servers on fasthosts. Login to the control panel, Domains & hosting, Your Domain, Registration settings, Nameservers. Your new nameservers should look like this:

• ns2.zoneedit.com
• ns3.zoneedit.com6.

Changes will take a few days to become active accross the net.

Here's how I successfully made a backup of my Windows (C) drive in Ubuntu - so I can restore if things go wrong.
1. Install Partimage: apt-get install partimage (I go into root console by typing 'sudo -s')
2. Check the place you want to backup to is mounted in Ubuntu/Linux. In my case Ubuntu has already mounted my Documents partition as '/media/Docs'
3. Run PartImage: sudo partimage
4. Select the partition to backup - in my case it was sda1 - the top partition (NTFS)
5. enter the destination of the backup file: /media/Docs/Backups/XP-Backup-2008-12 (note this is case sensitive!!)
6. I left all the other settings unchanged - F5 to go to the next screens
Backup took about 3 hours for 15GB.

Thanks to this guide here