Re: [Discuss] RMS

2019-09-26 Thread Marco Milano
On 9/26/19 12:17 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: Joe Polcari wrote: You’re counting? I didn't recognize his name, so I asked my mail client. I can count to three pretty quickly. -dsr- How is the number of emails to the email list is related to anything? Are you saying that unless you are

Re: [Discuss] Reliable external HD enclosure for Linux?

2019-08-30 Thread Marco Milano
On 8/29/19 9:21 PM, Steve Litt wrote: Thanks, What makes you sure it's the enclosure and not the drive. As long as I can remember, Seagate drives had the reputation of unreliability. That may have been the case maybe 10/15 years ago, but not anymore. Their high end and high capacity

Re: [Discuss] full disk backups

2019-08-17 Thread Marco Milano
What happens if you use the following options? --no-specials --no-devices On 8/17/19 5:59 PM, Eric Chadbourne wrote: This is the command I ended up running: sudo rsync -a --delete -exclude={"/dev/*","/proc/*","/sys/*","/tmp/*","/run/*","/mnt/*","/media/*","/lost+found"} /

Re: [Discuss] Backing up the entire filesystem

2018-10-26 Thread Marco Milano
On 10/26/18 2:22 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: On 10/26/18 1:55 PM, Shirley Márquez Dúlcey wrote: Another thing to keep in mind is that ZFS does have one flaw; it's a memory hog. If you have a large ZFS filesystem you will need a LOT of RAM to get acceptable performance. But it does represent the

Re: [Discuss] Backing up the entire filesystem

2018-10-26 Thread Marco Milano
On 10/26/18 1:55 PM, Shirley Márquez Dúlcey wrote: Another thing to keep in mind is that ZFS does have one flaw; it's a memory hog. If you have a large ZFS filesystem you will need a LOT of RAM to get acceptable performance. But it does represent the current state of the art for file system

Re: [Discuss] Backing up the entire filesystem

2018-10-26 Thread Marco Milano
On 10/26/18 11:38 AM, Rich Pieri wrote: Having recently-ish rebuilt my home server with full ZFS I have to say that ZFS makes backups ridiculously easy. And quick. How did you get the root filesystem under ZFS? Is there a nice/clean/easy recipe ? -- Marco

Re: [Discuss] Backing up the entire software installation

2018-10-25 Thread Marco Milano
On 10/25/18 4:22 PM, Rich Pieri wrote: Avoid ext4 for anything important if at all possible. Why? -- Marco ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [Discuss] Linux has 100% of Market Share.

2018-06-18 Thread Marco Milano
On 06/18/2018 04:22 PM, Bill Bogstad wrote: On Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 5:59 AM Marco Milano wrote: On 06/09/2018 12:11 PM, Bill Bogstad wrote: On Sat, Jun 9, 2018 at 11:11 AM Bill Ricker wrote: the Top500 statistics include Historical charts. You can see how recently the last 2 AIX

Re: [Discuss] Linux has 100% of Market Share.

2018-06-11 Thread Marco Milano
On 06/09/2018 12:11 PM, Bill Bogstad wrote: On Sat, Jun 9, 2018 at 11:11 AM Bill Ricker wrote: the Top500 statistics include Historical charts. You can see how recently the last 2 AIX systems were pushed out of Top500, how "mixed OS" had a brief surge early last decade, etc.

Re: [Discuss] Surge Protection

2018-06-02 Thread Marco Milano
On 06/02/2018 08:33 AM, jbk wrote: Mid morning last Thursday there was a brief (fraction of second) power outage in my part of JP. It caused the power supply in both running computers to die. Obviously my surge protectors are outdated and need replacement. Any recommendations? If it was a

Re: [Discuss] Fidelity voice-recognition security?

2017-11-30 Thread Marco Milano
On 11/22/2017 01:15 PM, Joe Polcari wrote: As already mentioned - my voice can be recorded. Not secure at all. If they are also requiring that you call from your "registered phone", maybe it is not as bad as it looks. (Although fake CID is getting very common these days.) On 11/22/17,