FWIW, I like Mercurial as a version control system. It can be entirely local or
distributed, but there is no unique master repository. The commands are very
similar to Git. Whenever I have something that benefits from saving previous
versions, I create a Mercurial repository in the directory,
Ed, thanks for that. I've got a lot of old VHS news programs, etc., of me that
I'd like to transfer to DVD. It didn't occur to me it could be done so cheaply.
Pamela
On Apr 8, 2013, at 10:43 PM, Edward Angel an...@cs.unm.edu wrote:
Unable to find a VHS player to buy, I bought a refurbished
One more plug, then I'll crawl back into my hole. SparkleShare
http://sparkleshare.org/ uses Git as its storage mechanism. You can
revert to previous versions of files via the normal Git tools. It also
consolidates several repositories on different hosts, allowing private
clouds as well as
I've always said that. Ask anybody, they'll tell you. They'll say, that
Roberts guy is *always* saying,* it is unfortunate that enthymeme
resolution is treated as a kind of presumptive meaning determination. *
It fact, it's been pointed out to that I say this so often, it's almost
become my
Doug -
I think you are reaching here...
I've always said that. Ask anybody, they'll tell you. They'll say,
that Roberts guy is /*always*/ saying,/ it is unfortunate that
enthymeme resolution is treated as a kind of presumptive meaning
determination. /
It fact, it's been pointed out to that
I have one data point. One of our Macs near Seattle had a drive fail, so I had
an employee take it to an Apple store. The 'genius' was very happy when he saw
the Time Machine, and, I think, nothing was lost.
About the depth of cloud backups: I now use Arq on the Mac. The backups are in
My $.02 on Time Machine.
I bought a 2TB time machine about 4? years ago and set up two MB Pro's
with it. Other than a little irritation from accidental reboots on the
device (connected to the same power strip as my flakey motorola internet
service, yielding a reboot via powerstrip toggle
Just curious why you Mac guys are buying backup systems, when there is a
perfectly good way to use rsync. Here's my nightly backup script, which
currently sends my nightly incrementals to a cheap 3TB USB3 external drive:
#!/bin/bash
# Just in case they are not mounted
/bin/mount /mnt/3TB
Douglas Roberts wrote at 04/08/2013 11:26 AM:
Just curious why you Mac guys are buying backup systems, when there is a
perfectly good way to use rsync. Here's my nightly backup script, which
currently sends my nightly incrementals to a cheap 3TB USB3 external drive:
The cloud solves the
Doug!
Just curious why you Mac guys are buying backup systems, when there is
a perfectly good way to use rsync. Here's my nightly backup script,
which currently sends my nightly incrementals to a cheap 3TB USB3
external drive:
I'ts the glitzy interface! Have you ever *SEEN* it? You feel
1. Is your 3TB drive off-site? Offsite backup is the problem to be solved, IMHO.
2. I imagine that the probability that your 3TB drive will be alive and
functional in a year is less than 99.9% (not that I fully believe
Amazon's claims, but they do monitor their disks and move the data
Did I fail to mention that I keep backups of my backups? I did, didn't I...
I am not paranoid, the odds *are* out to get you.
--Doug
On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 1:35 PM, Barry MacKichan
barry.mackic...@mackichan.com wrote:
1. Is your 3TB drive off-site? Offsite backup is the problem to be
No, the odds have gotten me. I am assuming that rsync overwrites past history,
so it saves less than a time machine. Is that correct?
On Apr 8, 2013, at 1:44 PM, Douglas Roberts d...@parrot-farm.net wrote:
Did I fail to mention that I keep backups of my backups? I did, didn't I...
I am not
Doug -
Apropos of your *original* point/question
A Time Machine (unless it is offsite) doesn't solve the offsite problem.
The overwrite problem doesn't solve *my* main problem which is NOT
catastrophic failure but operator error... perhaps one of the options
you mention in rsync, in
In addition to the other reasons for offsite backup, let me add break-ins. Mush
more likely than a fire. Within two minutes your computers can all be gone.
I doubt any statistics on disk failures. I've had two backup disks and an
internal disk fail in the last year. Two of the failures were on
On Mon, Apr 08, 2013 at 12:49:47PM -0600, Steve Smith wrote:
Doug!
Just curious why you Mac guys are buying backup systems, when
there is a perfectly good way to use rsync. Here's my nightly
backup script, which currently sends my nightly incrementals to a
cheap 3TB USB3 external drive:
As Russell and others have pointed out, TM provides a hybrid of version control
and backup. I wonder if it would be feasible to use SVN to manage an entire
operating system? You could in essence do hourly commits of '/' with periodic
pruning, but I'm sure it wouldn't be as simple as that. Would
Gary-
As Russell and others have pointed out, TM provides a hybrid of version control
and backup. I wonder if it would be feasible to use SVN to manage an entire
operating system? You could in essence do hourly commits of '/' with periodic
pruning, but I'm sure it wouldn't be as simple as
On 4/8/13 5:48 PM, Russell Standish wrote:
Russell-
On Mon, Apr 08, 2013 at 12:49:47PM -0600, Steve Smith wrote:
A point and click later and we are back to the earlier state,
and if I'm wrong, another point and click and we are at another
state, and
rsync doesn't solve this particular
On Mon, Apr 08, 2013 at 06:50:38PM -0600, Steve Smith wrote:
On 4/8/13 5:48 PM, Russell Standish wrote:
Russell-
Time Machine would be nice (provided I could develop trust of
it). Unfortunately, I'm Linux, not Mac, so its not an option :). If
someone implements a transparent copy on write
Russell -
with the exception of the GBs
of family photos and videos. I should do something about those, I
suppose. Of course at this stage, I have no plans on digitising the
mound of hardcopy photos that existed prior to us getting a digital
camera circa 2005, so there's still a lot of history
On Mon, Apr 08, 2013 at 07:40:48PM -0600, Steve Smith wrote:
I saw recently on one of my rare visits to either WalMart or
Walgreens someone sitting at a console almost like a video-game
machine or a do-it-yourself blood-pressure kiosk, scanning
photographs onto (I assume) CD. There was a slot
Unable to find a VHS player to buy, I bought a refurbished VHS/DVD recorder
from Best Buy for about $100 which works fine for transferring VHS to DVD.
Ed
__
Ed Angel
Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and Science Laboratory (ARTS Lab)
Professor Emeritus of Computer Science,
I, too, am paying for a large Dropbox account, but here are a couple things
I don't like about it.
1. I use it to share the development of a lot of projects. But if one
of the team members deletes a file, it is deleted for all of us. Hey, let
me manange MY file system, please.
2.
I can't imagine doing any kind of work that evolves over time (even a few days'
time) without using some kind of revision control system. I don't know how much
people use git for purposes other than software, but it seems like a reasonable
means of backing up and tracking revisions of any type
All the plans I use are free. They range from 2GB to (I think) 25 GB for
Microsoft! Everything in the designated directories are backed up
automatically.
*-- Russ Abbott*
*_*
*** Professor, Computer Science*
* California State University, Los
If someone would just up the free storage to 150 GB.
Actually what I will switch to at some point is backing up my Time Machine
disks, The problem with all the free and pay cloud backups is they only have
the latest copy of a file.
Ed
__
Ed Angel
Founding Director, Art, Research,
So has anyone successfully restored an entire system from the Cloud (or
a Time Machine come to think of it)? How easy was it? Any statistics
on success rate? Some TM instructions require 'your original Mac OS
10.5 Leopard DVD' but I upgraded to Mountain Lion on line and have no
I dropped my previous MacBook air once and crashed the hard drive. Fortunately,
I had a Time Machine backup from only an hour before. I was either on Snow
Leopard or Lion, don't remember which. It went without a hitch and took around
three hours to restore the newly installed 500 GB drive with
On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 4:05 PM, Edward Angel an...@cs.unm.edu wrote:
I'm pretty simplistic about it and use mozy. My computers are backed up
automatically and I don't spend any time thinking about it. The two times
there was a failure of their data base on my machine getting corrupted,
they
You can specify directories or back up the whole disk. Being a little cheap and
having 3 computers on my account, I don't back up the OS or some aps that are
easy to reload. You pay by the how much space you use for up to three computers
on the basic plan. I think carbonite is about the same.
Matthew Yglasias has a
piecehttp://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/04/03/dropbox_vs_amazon_nobody_can_compete_with_jeff_bezos.html?wpisrc=newsletter_myslate
on
Slate about Amazon's new cloud storage service and how it's likely to kill
Dropbox. Naturally I signed up. But I already have a Dropbox
I haven't thought that much about it, but it just occurred to me that it might
be fun to build a distributed, RAID-inspired el cheapo cloud storage system.
Sign up for about ten services each offering 5 GB of free storage, and think of
each as a member of a RAID system, and stripe blocks of
I'm pretty simplistic about it and use mozy. My computers are backed up
automatically and I don't spend any time thinking about it. The two times there
was a failure of their data base on my machine getting corrupted, they were
able to recover everything quickly. When we returned to NM after
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