apankrat

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by apankrat 7y ago
So I've been thinking about this scenario. Tell me this - say you have a mix of files of different sizes. Would you expect the program to try and pack as much files onto each drive (to maximize per-disk use) or copying files in order a
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by apankrat 7y ago
Thanks, it's custom. It's simpler than it looks. Except for fade-in/out transitions. It's absolutely ridiculous how much effort it takes to make them flicker-free.
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by apankrat 7y ago
No, sorry.
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by apankrat 7y ago
You get a code signing cert from any CA that sells them and sign your executables yourself. Certs can be as cheap as $50 a year / $250 of extended validation ones. Stay away from Comodo though, they are staffed by predominantly incompe
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by apankrat 7y ago
Thanks, it's a very nice compliment.
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by apankrat 7y ago
Once Jobs is back and Macs are put back in order.
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by apankrat 7y ago
Glad you like it :)
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by apankrat 7y ago
Re: splitting a backup across several drives - this has unique UI requirements that aren't compatible with bvckup2's core Engine/UI model. The engine runs all backups autonomously and the UI merely shows the progress. Convers
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by apankrat 7y ago
Looks like an elaborate and well-thought through take on zeroconf overlay networking.
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by apankrat 7y ago
Thanks for the FYI, should be working as expected now.
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by apankrat 7y ago
I have, but never got around to doing it. All other utilities (Diskovery, CCSIOBench, etc.) are like that though already.
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by apankrat 7y ago
It does tree-to-tree comparison for deducing exact changes, and it can also, optionally, use file system change notifications to schedule the actual runs.
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by apankrat 7y ago
No, it doesn't support this type of usage. It's a very niche scenario and there are some hairy usability issues with it, especially post-backup.
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by apankrat 7y ago
It doesn't do verbatim verification, but this is one of big outstanding features and it will be done shortly.
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by apankrat 7y ago
OK, thanks. The second part is something that I, not being a practicing sysadmin, have zero insight into. Very helpful. Re: full scan issues - that's likely due to bvckup2 being too aggressive with the IO. This is something that's
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by apankrat 7y ago
You are correct that you would've needed an Professional license for your case. Personal licenses were basically a 50% discounted option for backing up one's photos and music stash. Re: pricing - it is what it is, sorry. We are tr
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by apankrat 7y ago
> differential scans was really poor Do you remember the details? First time I hear of something like this. Re: RCT - I read up on it a while back and the overall impression I got was that it was an application-level re-implementation
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by apankrat 7y ago
I am not familiar with nasuni, but the general idea is that once bvckup2 has the block hashes for the source file, it will write only modified blocks to the backup copy. Block hashes are computed either when the file is first copied to dest
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by apankrat 7y ago
I've been playing with doing file change detection based on NTFS journals. There are some caveats, but it looks very promising. It's O(1) basically instead of O(file-size).
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by apankrat 7y ago
Ah, OK. There were some issues with fraud back then, so had to resort to using cookies that were initialized client-side.
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by apankrat 7y ago
Hamachi had its place back in mid-00's, but I agree that a need for zeroconf LAN bridging has gone down substantially since then. I do think however that extracting its p2p tunneling bit into a separate service could be a good thing to
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by apankrat 7y ago
Ah, yes. Any excuse to do some data vis is worth pursuing. It needs quite a bit of cleanup to be worthy of a separate site though. The UI still needs a magnifying glass on high-DPI monitors and apparently not everyone is OK with that.
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by apankrat 7y ago
No, I have not. From what I've seen NTFS is a really well-made file system. There is indeed a fixed per-file overhead that becomes an issue when working through lots of small files, but NTFS handles multi-threaded access very efficient
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by apankrat 7y ago
I don't have a link ready, but this was explicitly mentioned in one of TechNet articles on the subject dating back few years. EA being used for WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) - not much of a surprise, really. It is a square peg in a
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by apankrat 7y ago
Fair point. Benchmarks are in the pipeline, will be adding them soon. Re: how do you know - there's a 2 week trial just for that.
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by apankrat 7y ago
De nada. It was a good project. In addition to the LAN gaming over the Internet, the second best thing was pranking people by printing random stuff on their LAN printers.
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by apankrat 7y ago
It works really well with Synology boxes. It also has quite a few Synology-specific tweaks, including support for their weird quirk of rounding up file timestamps to the nearest second and then subtracting a millisecond from it.
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by apankrat 7y ago
Regular attributes. Extended attributes have been deprecated by Microsoft quite some time ago in favour of ADS. It's not hard to add support for replicating them, but there's literally no demand for that.
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by apankrat 7y ago
It replicates timestamps, attributes, DACL, SACL, group and owner info, as well as alternate file streams. Replication of some of these is off by default though. It can follow symlinks, reparse and mount points, but doesn't replicate t
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by apankrat 7y ago
Thanks. Little OCD goes a long way.

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