Re: [9fans] Anyone using p9p or Plan 9 venti as a more generic backup system?

2010-11-22 Thread Latchesar Ionkov
I send the venti scores to my email account and burn them on the DVDs with the arenas. Lucho On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 9:51 AM, David Leimbach leim...@gmail.com wrote: I'm giving consideration to maintaining a venti-based setup for my house for all the digital media we have (since getting

Re: [9fans] Anyone using p9p or Plan 9 venti as a more generic backup system?

2010-11-22 Thread David Leimbach
Seems a very logical way to go. On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 7:56 AM, Latchesar Ionkov lu...@ionkov.net wrote: I send the venti scores to my email account and burn them on the DVDs with the arenas. Lucho On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 9:51 AM, David Leimbach leim...@gmail.com wrote: I'm giving

Re: [9fans] Anyone using p9p or Plan 9 venti as a more generic backup system?

2010-11-22 Thread Anthony Sorace
I use vac -a to back up several unix systems to my main Plan 9 file server. Currently I'm doing two nightly via cron and two sporadically (laptops); there have been more of each in the past. In addition to storing the scores locally, I wrote a little rc script that lives in /rc/bin/service.auth

Re: [9fans] Anyone using p9p or Plan 9 venti as a more generic backup system?

2010-11-18 Thread Bakul Shah
On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 09:44:27 PST David Leimbach leim...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 9:23 AM, dexen deVries dexen.devr...@gmail.comwrote : On Wednesday 17 November 2010 18:14:35 Venkatesh Srinivas wrote: (...) I'd be very careful with vac -m and -a on Unix; both have

Re: [9fans] Anyone using p9p or Plan 9 venti as a more generic backup system?

2010-11-18 Thread dexen deVries
On Thursday 18 November 2010 20:40:13 Bakul Shah wrote: On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 09:44:27 PST David Leimbach leim...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 9:23 AM, dexen deVries dexen.devr...@gmail.comwrote On Wednesday 17 November 2010 18:14:35 Venkatesh Srinivas wrote: (...)

[9fans] Anyone using p9p or Plan 9 venti as a more generic backup system?

2010-11-17 Thread David Leimbach
I'm giving consideration to maintaining a venti-based setup for my house for all the digital media we have (since getting our Apple TV, we've had more stuff to stream around the house). I've just now started playing with things like vac/unvac, to backup and extract trees of my HFS+ file system

Re: [9fans] Anyone using p9p or Plan 9 venti as a more generic backup system?

2010-11-17 Thread Venkatesh Srinivas
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 11:51 AM, David Leimbach leim...@gmail.com wrote: I'm giving consideration to maintaining a venti-based setup for my house for all the digital media we have (since getting our Apple TV, we've had more stuff to stream around the house). I've just now started playing with

Re: [9fans] Anyone using p9p or Plan 9 venti as a more generic backup system?

2010-11-17 Thread dexen deVries
On Wednesday 17 November 2010 18:14:35 Venkatesh Srinivas wrote: (...) I'd be very careful with vac -m and -a on Unix; both have been at the root of considerable data-loss on a unix venti for me. I'd recommend vac-ing tarballs, rather than using vac's on unix trees directly. But your mileage

Re: [9fans] Anyone using p9p or Plan 9 venti as a more generic backup system?

2010-11-17 Thread David Leimbach
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 9:14 AM, Venkatesh Srinivas m...@acm.jhu.edu wrote: On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 11:51 AM, David Leimbach leim...@gmail.com wrote: I'm giving consideration to maintaining a venti-based setup for my house for all the digital media we have (since getting our Apple TV,

Re: [9fans] Anyone using p9p or Plan 9 venti as a more generic backup system?

2010-11-17 Thread Venkatesh Srinivas
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 12:23 PM, dexen deVries dexen.devr...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday 17 November 2010 18:14:35 Venkatesh Srinivas wrote: (...) I'd be very careful with vac -m and -a on Unix; both have been at the root of considerable data-loss on a unix venti for me. I'd recommend

Re: [9fans] Anyone using p9p or Plan 9 venti as a more generic backup system?

2010-11-17 Thread David Leimbach
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 9:23 AM, dexen deVries dexen.devr...@gmail.comwrote: On Wednesday 17 November 2010 18:14:35 Venkatesh Srinivas wrote: (...) I'd be very careful with vac -m and -a on Unix; both have been at the root of considerable data-loss on a unix venti for me. I'd recommend