Re: [Discuss] CrashPlan Home is discontinued - what's next?

2018-02-14 Thread Dale R. Worley
Bill Bogstad writes: > Do you actually put the entire subtree under your home directory into Git? > My home directory has lots of pictures, movies, ISOs, etc. in there. > Where do you put that kind of thing? Actualy, I put things that aren't to be saved in ~/not-replicated,

Re: [Discuss] CrashPlan Home is discontinued - what's next?

2017-09-07 Thread Dale R. Worley
> From: Rich Braun > > The tools to create such a thing are out there now, they just > need to be packaged in the way Ubuntu solved the new-user installation > problem that other Linux distros all had prior to 2007. That's true, but it's like, what, saying that the

Re: [Discuss] CrashPlan Home is discontinued - what's next?

2017-09-06 Thread Richard Pieri
On 9/6/2017 4:53 PM, Rich Braun wrote: > software you use. The tools to create such a thing are out there now, > they just need to be packaged in the way Ubuntu solved the new-user > installation problem that other Linux distros all had prior to 2007. No, they're not. The tools exist if you're

Re: [Discuss] CrashPlan Home is discontinued - what's next?

2017-09-06 Thread Rich Braun
> On Sep 6, 2017, at 09:35, Bill Bogstad wrote: > it seems > like every couple of years the "correct" CM package changes. Right now the main open-source options are Ansible (a Red Hat product), Chef and Puppet. I have used all three, and found that the learning curve for new

Re: [Discuss] CrashPlan Home is discontinued - what's next?

2017-09-06 Thread Dan Ritter
On Wed, Sep 06, 2017 at 12:35:16PM -0400, Bill Bogstad wrote: > On Fri, Sep 1, 2017 at 2:53 AM, Rich Braun wrote: > > > >> That would be etckeeper which I've used for some time. > > > > If you're still editing /etc config files, consider taking the time to > > learn how to

Re: [Discuss] CrashPlan Home is discontinued - what's next?

2017-09-06 Thread Bill Bogstad
On Fri, Sep 1, 2017 at 2:53 AM, Rich Braun wrote: > >> That would be etckeeper which I've used for some time. > > If you're still editing /etc config files, consider taking the time to learn > how to administer them in a centralized revision-controlled manner. This is for

Re: [Discuss] CrashPlan Home is discontinued - what's next?

2017-09-01 Thread Rich Braun
I wrote: > my new 2017 docker + ansible method is also there Doh'! I forget to say what "there" is: GitHub.com/instantlinux, the docker-tools and puppet-modules repos. -rich ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org

Re: [Discuss] CrashPlan Home is discontinued - what's next?

2017-09-01 Thread Rich Braun
> That would be etckeeper which I've used for some time. If you're still editing /etc config files, consider taking the time to learn how to administer them in a centralized revision-controlled manner. You can find my vintage-2011 puppet modules on my git repo, and my new 2017 docker +

Re: [Discuss] CrashPlan Home is discontinued - what's next?

2017-08-31 Thread Bill Bogstad
On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 9:47 PM, Dale R. Worley wrote: > Mike Small writes: >> How do you handle file permissions? > > It doesn't do any more than Git does normally. OTOH, I've never used it > for bulk restoration, either. Do you actually put the entire

Re: [Discuss] CrashPlan Home is discontinued - what's next?

2017-08-31 Thread Bill Bogstad
On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 12:50 PM, Mike Small wrote: > wor...@alum.mit.edu (Dale R. Worley) writes: > >> I have a cron job which commits my home directory into a Git repository >> every minute. Surprisingly, this puts no noticeable load on the >> computer. > > How do you handle

Re: [Discuss] CrashPlan Home is discontinued - what's next?

2017-08-31 Thread Mike Small
wor...@alum.mit.edu (Dale R. Worley) writes: > I have a cron job which commits my home directory into a Git repository > every minute. Surprisingly, this puts no noticeable load on the > computer. How do you handle file permissions? E.g. .ssh directory contents or PGP key files having

Re: [Discuss] CrashPlan Home is discontinued - what's next?

2017-08-30 Thread Dale R. Worley
I have a cron job which commits my home directory into a Git repository every minute. Surprisingly, this puts no noticeable load on the computer. Every week, I run a script which prunes commits out of the commit history so that at any time N in the past, commits are spaced no closer than N/365.

Re: [Discuss] CrashPlan Home is discontinued - what's next?

2017-08-29 Thread Rich Braun
John and Dan suggested Amazon S3 and rsync.net: I wanted to clarify my requirements. Those, like ad-infinitum cloud services, provide raw storage. While you can roll your own software to do backups to raw storage, they are not "backup systems" that provide the following capabilities: *

Re: [Discuss] CrashPlan Home is discontinued - what's next?

2017-08-29 Thread Daniel Barrett
On August 28, 2017, Rich Braun wrote: >What's your [CrashPlan-like] strategy? - For email, which changes frequently, hourly rsync to my Synology NAS with RAID 6. - For my main Linux computer, a nightly rsync to an external USB drive. This drive is moved to a safety deposit box once a month,

Re: [Discuss] CrashPlan Home is discontinued - what's next?

2017-08-28 Thread John Abreau
I use Amazon S3 for my backups. First 50 TB/month cost $0.0245 per GB for Standard Storage or $0.0135 per GB for Infrequent Access Storage. I wrote a script for my backups that uses s3cmd to sync my servers to S3 and manages a set of daily backups and monthly and annual archives. On Mon, Aug

Re: [Discuss] CrashPlan Home is discontinued - what's next?

2017-08-28 Thread Don Silvia
On 08/28/2017 05:32 PM, Richard Pieri wrote: On 8/28/2017 2:24 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: For people who don't need fancy interfaces and hand-holding, rsync.net is probably a good choice. Simple pricing: http://rsync.net/pricing.html Holy crap! that's expensive. Has anyone looked at backblaze:

Re: [Discuss] CrashPlan Home is discontinued - what's next?

2017-08-28 Thread Richard Pieri
On 8/28/2017 2:24 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: > For people who don't need fancy interfaces and hand-holding, > rsync.net is probably a good choice. > > Simple pricing: > http://rsync.net/pricing.html Holy crap! that's expensive. Me? I'm still using Unison with my home server. Hardware has changed

Re: [Discuss] CrashPlan Home is discontinued - what's next?

2017-08-28 Thread Bill Ricker
On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 2:18 PM, Rich Braun wrote: > As of next summer, there won't be any more low-cost CrashPlan backup service > for us Linux users. I liked the fact that its backup engine supports both the > CrashPlan cloud service and private backups between servers. >

Re: [Discuss] CrashPlan Home is discontinued - what's next?

2017-08-28 Thread Kent Borg
For my main backups of my daily computer I still do incremental backups to a series of encrypted portable USB disks. One stays at at work, one at home, etc. But for various things I do backup to the "cloud" more frequently: I commit to git and push, frequently, as soon as I feel like I have

Re: [Discuss] CrashPlan Home is discontinued - what's next?

2017-08-28 Thread Dan Ritter
On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 11:18:17AM -0700, Rich Braun wrote: > As of next summer, there won't be any more low-cost CrashPlan backup service > for us Linux users. I liked the fact that its backup engine supports both the > CrashPlan cloud service and private backups between servers. > > There are