3 ms·

Interestingly, I just had a discussion with my roomate about this. We were sitting in a coffee shop, and he was mad at himself because he forgot the latest cop

by blhack 16y ago

Interestingly, I just had a discussion with my roomate about this. We were sitting in a coffee shop, and he was mad at himself because he forgot the latest copy of a game he is working on at the house... Why is this a problem at all anymore? Hosting is cheaap. I have a linux VPS at linode that I pay $20/mo for and almost everything that i do is stored there. Honestly, the only things I can think of that aren't stored on that machine (which trades nightly rsyncs with another machine with a different provider and on a different network) are minecraft, my music collection, some photos, and a journal that I just started keeping a couple of weeks ago (gets encrypted with 256bit AES and lives in the home dir on my laptop). My point is that there is absolutely no reason to keep anything on your local machine anymore, at least not ones that I can think of. Why not keep a server in the basement, and then just run SSH with X11 forwarding? Keep a cheap, disposable machine with you and if something like this happens, sell it and buy a new one. It's really sad that this is even an issue, but I do think that there are solutions to it.

mcav 16y ago
Do you do your work on that linode directly (via ssh), or do you just use it for syncing?
- blhack 16y ago
  Directly via SSH.
SoftwareMaven 16y ago
There's no excuse for data loss, but the inconvenience of trying to work remotely from an aircraft is very significant (heck, it wasn't even possible a couple of years ago). Sad that Obama has continued the Bush legacy of trouncing our freedoms at the border. There needs to be a better balance between government power and civil rights at the border that still allows the government to manage what is coming and going.
kristiandupont 16y ago
Funny, I keep a lot of stuff local because I want to make sure I have access to it when I am out somewhere, but my music collection is now http://www.grooveshark.com http://www.grooveshark.com
mike-cardwell 16y ago
Sounds like I have a similar set up to you. I have a Macbook, a Nettop (HTPC and other stuff) and a Linode VPS. My Macbook is backed up to my TimeCapsule over the air once an hour, although it doesn't have anything particularly important on it. My Linode VPS is backed up to my Nettop at home once a day with an rsync (incremental). My Linode VPS's MySQL db's are replicated over a VPN to the Nettop too so I have up to the second copies of my MySQL dbs. If I lost my laptop or my Linode died then I wouldn't lose anything. If I wanted to reinstall my laptop I wouldn't have to worry about copying anything off it, I just put the disc in and reboot.
gst 16y ago
Not a good idea if you know that you're targeted by the government. ;) In fact this makes it much easier for them to get access to your data. If they know your name they can get to your credit card transactions. From you're credit card transactions they get to your hoster. And from your hoster they get the data that's stored on your VPS. You can somehow mitigate this issue by storing your important data on an encrypted filesystem, but this does not really solve this problem as the key has still to be kept in memory.
- blhack 16y ago
  I'm not saying do it via VPS, I'm saying keep a server in your houe. _I_ do it over VPS because, as far as I know, nobody is after me :-P
dalore 16y ago
It's cheaper at dropbox, 2gb for free.

by blhack 16y ago

mcav 16y ago

Do you do your work on that linode directly (via ssh), or do you just use it for syncing?

blhack 16y ago
Directly via SSH.

SoftwareMaven 16y ago

There's no excuse for data loss, but the inconvenience of trying to work remotely from an aircraft is very significant (heck, it wasn't even possible a couple of years ago). Sad that Obama has continued the Bush legacy of trouncing our freedoms at the border. There needs to be a better balance between government power and civil rights at the border that still allows the government to manage what is coming and going.

kristiandupont 16y ago

Funny, I keep a lot of stuff local because I want to make sure I have access to it when I am out somewhere, but my music collection is now http://www.grooveshark.com http://www.grooveshark.com

mike-cardwell 16y ago

Sounds like I have a similar set up to you. I have a Macbook, a Nettop (HTPC and other stuff) and a Linode VPS. My Macbook is backed up to my TimeCapsule over the air once an hour, although it doesn't have anything particularly important on it. My Linode VPS is backed up to my Nettop at home once a day with an rsync (incremental). My Linode VPS's MySQL db's are replicated over a VPN to the Nettop too so I have up to the second copies of my MySQL dbs. If I lost my laptop or my Linode died then I wouldn't lose anything. If I wanted to reinstall my laptop I wouldn't have to worry about copying anything off it, I just put the disc in and reboot.

gst 16y ago

Not a good idea if you know that you're targeted by the government. ;) In fact this makes it much easier for them to get access to your data. If they know your name they can get to your credit card transactions. From you're credit card transactions they get to your hoster. And from your hoster they get the data that's stored on your VPS. You can somehow mitigate this issue by storing your important data on an encrypted filesystem, but this does not really solve this problem as the key has still to be kept in memory.

blhack 16y ago
I'm not saying do it via VPS, I'm saying keep a server in your houe. _I_ do it over VPS because, as far as I know, nobody is after me :-P

dalore 16y ago

It's cheaper at dropbox, 2gb for free.