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What Lutus talks about exists even when it's not for anyone else. I have never been paid to write code, and my formal CS education is limited to AP Computer Sc

by ylee 3mo ago

What Lutus talks about exists even when it's not for anyone else. I have never been paid to write code, and my formal CS education is limited to AP Computer Science, and a one-credit Java class in college. I wrote 20 years ago a backup script implementing Mike Rubel's insight <http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/ http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/> about using `rsync` and hard links to create snapshots backups. It's basically my own version of `rsnapshot`. I have deployed it across several of my machines. Every so often I fix a bug or add a feature. Do I need to do it given `rsnapshot`'s existence? No. Is it fun to work on it? Yes. (I've over the years restored individual files/directories often enough from the resulting backups to have reasonable confidence in the script's effectiveness, but of course one never knows for certain until the day everything gets zapped.)

cestith 3mo ago
I’ve worked somewhere that used Snapback, and that’s also from Mike Rubel’s writings. https://metacpan.org/dist/Snapback2/view/scripts/snapback2.PL https://metacpan.org/dist/Snapback2/view/scripts/snapback2.P... The 2 is I think because an earlier incarnation was by Art Mulder. There is also a Python implementation by apparently yet another person, which appears to be independently inspired by Mike Rubel’s writings. https://github.com/diegocortassa/snapback https://github.com/diegocortassa/snapback There are also rsyncbackup, rsyncmachine, https://rsnapshot.org/ https://rsnapshot.org/, https://github.com/jonaslu/rsyncrotatingbackup https://github.com/jonaslu/rsyncrotatingbackup (inspired by http://www.dbourget.com/software/remote-backup.pl http://www.dbourget.com/software/remote-backup.pl), and several more with seemingly the same original inspiration.
_doctor_love 3mo ago
What do you do for work if it's not writing code? I'm always fascinated by the non-paid-professional-programmers who frequent HN.
- ylee 3mo ago
  I worked in tech investment banking for a decade out of college, and now work for myself. I majored in history and Spanish at Columbia, which is associated with at least two other people who have had notable computer-related careers/sidelines and eminent non computer-related careers: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eben_Moglen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eben_Moglen> and <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Mendelson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Mendelson>. (Not that I would put myself at their level.)

by ylee 3mo ago

cestith 3mo ago

I’ve worked somewhere that used Snapback, and that’s also from Mike Rubel’s writings. https://metacpan.org/dist/Snapback2/view/scripts/snapback2.PL https://metacpan.org/dist/Snapback2/view/scripts/snapback2.P... The 2 is I think because an earlier incarnation was by Art Mulder. There is also a Python implementation by apparently yet another person, which appears to be independently inspired by Mike Rubel’s writings. https://github.com/diegocortassa/snapback https://github.com/diegocortassa/snapback There are also rsyncbackup, rsyncmachine, https://rsnapshot.org/ https://rsnapshot.org/, https://github.com/jonaslu/rsyncrotatingbackup https://github.com/jonaslu/rsyncrotatingbackup (inspired by http://www.dbourget.com/software/remote-backup.pl http://www.dbourget.com/software/remote-backup.pl), and several more with seemingly the same original inspiration.

_doctor_love 3mo ago

What do you do for work if it's not writing code? I'm always fascinated by the non-paid-professional-programmers who frequent HN.

ylee 3mo ago
I worked in tech investment banking for a decade out of college, and now work for myself. I majored in history and Spanish at Columbia, which is associated with at least two other people who have had notable computer-related careers/sidelines and eminent non computer-related careers: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eben_Moglen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eben_Moglen> and <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Mendelson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Mendelson>. (Not that I would put myself at their level.)