Re: [Discuss] On-site backups revisited - rsnapshot vs. CrashPlan

2013-02-20 Thread Tom Metro
Rich Braun wrote: > * Supplement rsnapshot with a script to make sha256sum checksums of > the archive contents, stored in a simple db table > > I'm not sure how aggressive I have to be with the integrity checking -- I've > actually never had a known instance of a file getting corrupt -- but I fi

Re: [Discuss] rsnapshot, "Back In Time"

2013-02-20 Thread Tom Metro
Jerry Feldman wrote: > I use rsnapshot at home to back up my entire Linux system as well as the > BLU mail server. If anyone is looking for the equivalent to rsnapshot for a Linux desktop, try "Back In Time" (http://backintime.le-web.org/), which is a GUI wrapper around rsync, and uses the same ha

Re: [Discuss] On-site backups revisited - rsnapshot vs. CrashPlan

2013-02-20 Thread David Kramer
On 02/20/2013 04:46 PM, Matt Shields wrote: > On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 4:40 PM, Rich Braun wrote: > >> I wrote last month a query about CrashPlan free peer-to-peer software from >> Code42. I failed to get satisfaction from the vendor, even though the CEO >> of >> Code42 made a response, you can vi

[Discuss] Capturing X11 video/pulse audio using avconv

2013-02-20 Thread David Kramer
(Sorry I wasn't at the meeting tonight. I really wanted to go but I work in Marlborough and got out too late) I'm trying to put a script together to capture the video and audio from a window. For instance, let's say I'm watching a Flash video on a website and I want to capture the Firefox window

Re: [Discuss] On-site backups revisited - rsnapshot vs. CrashPlan

2013-02-20 Thread Rich Pieri
On Wed, 20 Feb 2013 17:15:57 -0500 Jerry Feldman wrote: > Setting up a checksum of a directory tree is pretty easy, You could > keep them in a flat file at the same level where you archive is, so > after hourly.0 is complete, set up an hourly.0.checksum. Just make > sure you rotate it when rsnaps

Re: [Discuss] On-site backups revisited - rsnapshot vs. CrashPlan

2013-02-20 Thread Jack Coats
I have setup backuppc before. It works pretty well, and if you use their dedupe software, It is basically rsync with a reasonable interface. Not as easy to deal with as crashplan, but not bad. Check out the software here. http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ ___

Re: [Discuss] On-site backups revisited - rsnapshot vs. CrashPlan

2013-02-20 Thread Jerry Feldman
On 02/20/2013 04:40 PM, Rich Braun wrote: > I wrote last month a query about CrashPlan free peer-to-peer software from > Code42. I failed to get satisfaction from the vendor, even though the CEO of > Code42 made a response, you can view the thread at > https://crashplan.zendesk.com/entries/64160-H

Re: [Discuss] On-site backups revisited - rsnapshot vs. CrashPlan

2013-02-20 Thread Rich Pieri
On Wed, 20 Feb 2013 13:40:15 -0800 "Rich Braun" wrote: > I haven't yet found a suitable replacement for CrashPlan > (peer-to-peer) off the shelf, but here's the strategy I'm using going > forward: Both ZFS and Btrfs do most of what you need more or less automatically. Incremental staging can be

Re: [Discuss] On-site backups revisited - rsnapshot vs. CrashPlan

2013-02-20 Thread Matt Shields
On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 4:40 PM, Rich Braun wrote: > I wrote last month a query about CrashPlan free peer-to-peer software from > Code42. I failed to get satisfaction from the vendor, even though the CEO > of > Code42 made a response, you can view the thread at > > https://crashplan.zendesk.com/

[Discuss] On-site backups revisited - rsnapshot vs. CrashPlan

2013-02-20 Thread Rich Braun
I wrote last month a query about CrashPlan free peer-to-peer software from Code42. I failed to get satisfaction from the vendor, even though the CEO of Code42 made a response, you can view the thread at https://crashplan.zendesk.com/entries/64160-How-do-I-request-a-full-integrity-check ; he didn't

Re: [Discuss] Streaming video from MIT classrooms for BLU meetings?

2013-02-20 Thread Doug
A different solution is to start a Google Hangout. That is what I did for a talk I gave at MIT. It provided audio and my desktop. This then depends on the speaker connecting to the hangout and letting that run in the background as the meeting goes on. In Google Calendar, you can associate a han

[Discuss] Meeting Recap: Build a Home/Media Server

2013-02-20 Thread Will Rico
The most recent meeting of the Desktop SIG took place on February 6. The topic was "How to Build a Home/Media Server with GNU/Linux." For anyone who missed the meeting, good news: we have recordings and slides thanks to our two presenters, Brendan Kidwell and Stan Livitski. This is a link to Bre

[Discuss] Streaming video from MIT classrooms for BLU meetings?

2013-02-20 Thread John Abreau
In the past we've had discussions about providing streaming video of BLU meetings, but none of us were sure how to go about setting it up. However, at last month's BLU meeting, someone pointed out that MIT's classrooms now have built-in cameras which should make the process feasible. I contacted M