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After all of these years I am surprised at the number of new clients that are written against an SFTP back-end. For instance, foldersync[1], restic[2], rclone[

by rsync 7y ago

After all of these years I am surprised at the number of new clients that are written against an SFTP back-end. For instance, foldersync[1], restic[2], rclone[3][4], and for ESX(i) (!!) I have just learned of "VerticalBackup"[5]. It makes me happy that a stock, standard OpenSSH serving up what is basically a UNIX home directory is still so powerful and useful. Contrast this with the elegance and state of the art that is ZFS and how immutable snapshots simultaneously solve both retention schedules and ransomware/mallory[6]. [1] https://www.tacit.dk/foldersync/ https://www.tacit.dk/foldersync/ [2] https://restic.net/ https://restic.net/ [3] https://rclone.org/ https://rclone.org/ [4] https://rsync.net/products/rclone.html https://rsync.net/products/rclone.html [5] https://verticalbackup.com/ https://verticalbackup.com/ [6] https://www.rsync.net/resources/howto/snapshots.html https://www.rsync.net/resources/howto/snapshots.html

yug 7y ago
For iOS, there's a new amazing app from the developer of Working Copy called Secure ShellFish: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/secure-shellfish/id1336634154?ls=1 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/secure-shellfish/id1336634154?...
tiffanyh 7y ago
@rsync I’ve read you’re a major FreeBSD shop. What’s your currently feeling about FreeBSD? How’s the current state of their OS support methodology? How’s stability of the OS these days? Your thoughts on ZFS now separated from FreeBSD. Etc. You’re one of the few individuals who have the breadth and depth of experience with FreeBSD for commercial use, I’m hoping to hear you’re thoughts.
- 693471 7y ago
  Most of my career has been working for shops running FreeBSD. FreeBSD is doing just fine. ZFS change is not interesting. Previously upstream was Illinois, now it's Linux. Support for releases changed but for the better. Stability is still great, but it will be a while before I see servers with 10 years uptime on modern kernels again. If I'm lucky it won't happen because they're getting patched...
ktm5j 7y ago
Ssh is just so ubiquitous. I actually write software that replicates our zfs snapshots off site using ssh as the transfer mechanism. Makes it easy to transfer snapshots between Linux and Solaris.
LinuxBender 7y ago
The best client I have used is lftp. [1] It support chroot sftp, can spawn multiple threads per job and even per file. I can max out any internet link with it. It is super easy to write automation with it. [1] - https://serverfault.com/questions/836103/replace-scp-with-sftp/836136#836136 https://serverfault.com/questions/836103/replace-scp-with-sf...

by rsync 7y ago

yug 7y ago

For iOS, there's a new amazing app from the developer of Working Copy called Secure ShellFish: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/secure-shellfish/id1336634154?ls=1 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/secure-shellfish/id1336634154?...

tiffanyh 7y ago

@rsync I’ve read you’re a major FreeBSD shop. What’s your currently feeling about FreeBSD? How’s the current state of their OS support methodology? How’s stability of the OS these days? Your thoughts on ZFS now separated from FreeBSD. Etc. You’re one of the few individuals who have the breadth and depth of experience with FreeBSD for commercial use, I’m hoping to hear you’re thoughts.

693471 7y ago
Most of my career has been working for shops running FreeBSD. FreeBSD is doing just fine. ZFS change is not interesting. Previously upstream was Illinois, now it's Linux. Support for releases changed but for the better. Stability is still great, but it will be a while before I see servers with 10 years uptime on modern kernels again. If I'm lucky it won't happen because they're getting patched...

ktm5j 7y ago

Ssh is just so ubiquitous. I actually write software that replicates our zfs snapshots off site using ssh as the transfer mechanism. Makes it easy to transfer snapshots between Linux and Solaris.

LinuxBender 7y ago

The best client I have used is lftp. [1] It support chroot sftp, can spawn multiple threads per job and even per file. I can max out any internet link with it. It is super easy to write automation with it. [1] - https://serverfault.com/questions/836103/replace-scp-with-sftp/836136#836136 https://serverfault.com/questions/836103/replace-scp-with-sf...