drKarl

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   Show HN: My first 5 minutes in a VPS and beyond, in scripts(github.com)

   8 points by drKarl 12y ago|2 comments
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   by drKarl 12y ago

   I apreciate that you created a user in HN to comment on this thread! Thanks for your input!
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   by drKarl 12y ago

   I updated the gist with some comments and additional solutions, and added Markdown formatting for readibility on mrcrilly's suggestion.
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   by drKarl 12y ago

   Yes, and I think your service is great. Just saying that it only starts to make sense when you need to backup 50Gb or more... If you just want to backup like 10Mb, or 200Mb or even 5Gb... On the other end, the more you need to backup the mo
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   by drKarl 12y ago

   Both securely transmited (ssh), stored in an encrypted way, but it's better if the encryption happens in the client, not in the server.
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   by drKarl 12y ago

   Would it be comparable to BackupNinja?
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   by drKarl 12y ago

   Good point, and I'm no cryptologist either to find any flaws on it or to verify its robustness... Maybe someone in the community has the required knowledge about encryption to say something about this?
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   by drKarl 12y ago

   Added. I only included the cons, and of those only the lack of encryption. Most (or all) of the solutions in the list are CLI...
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   by drKarl 12y ago

   But that is not encrypted, right?
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    by drKarl 12y ago

    Yes, that is another option, but that would be in the category "roll your own". You can start rolling your own with some shell scripts, or with some python, etc Actually I think this is how most solutions started...
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    by drKarl 12y ago

    That is assuming there is a single source of data in need of backup and that the data is generated/handled by an application. Data could be from many different sources and formats: databases, images, video, audio, pdf, text...
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    by drKarl 12y ago

    Good suggestion, I'll try to do that grouping.
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    by drKarl 12y ago

    Yep, Bacula looks like an option if you have to centralize the backup of a lot of servers, but it looks it's more oriented to tape backup, isn't it?
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    by drKarl 12y ago

    Thanks, that is definitely an option, but I'd say that built-in encryption is a big plus.
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    by drKarl 12y ago

    It seems it is more a way of integrating different backups, which can be useful of course. For instance, it seems it can use Duplicity. Is that so?
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    by drKarl 12y ago

    What about installing Python3 manually? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8087184/installing-python...
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    by drKarl 12y ago

    I found this benchmark http://anarc.at/blog/2014-11-18-bup-vs-attic-silly-benchmark...
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    by drKarl 12y ago

    It's still in alpha, but looks interesting, I'll keep an eye on it!
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    by drKarl 12y ago

    Thanks for the suggestions. I'm more inclined to use Open Source solutions, though, which Tivoli and Legato are not. I agree with ZFS but I think it shines as a last resort backup (like rsync.net offers) and not as a main backup system
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    by drKarl 12y ago

    Thanks, added this info to the list
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    by drKarl 12y ago

    I would also add that Tarsnap is probably the best option if you only need to backup a small size of data (a few KBs, a few MBs or even a few hundred MBs), since you have top-notch encryption with the picodollar pricing and stellar dedup yo
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    by drKarl 12y ago

    Added, do you have some more info on that one, drawbacks, performance?
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    by drKarl 12y ago

    Added, with the drawback of lacking encryption
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    Best Linux server backup system?(gist.github.com)

    152 points by drKarl 12y ago|127 comments
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    by drKarl 12y ago

    I'm not sure biometric identification is such a great idea... with fingerprint id, it could make the bad guys have an incentive to chop fingers... Also, a fingerprint can be acquired in other ways and then replicated sintetically. In t
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    by drKarl 12y ago

    Also in Uplink https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoIBS1ffyLc#t=94
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    by drKarl 12y ago

    I think this analysis is an oversimplification. It is clear on the graphic that the revenue is growing at a fast pace, and the net income is also growing, but a slower pace. What that means, is that Google is reinvesting a lot of its revenu
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    by drKarl 12y ago

    I find it useful in the event of a power outage. Other than that, the article mentions "to eliminate their home electric bill", which doesn't make much sense since the battery needs to be charged from time to time anyway... U
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    by drKarl 12y ago

    I periodically check for good open source alternatives to Evernote. Previously I found https://github.com/grena/gruik Demo http://gruik.io/ https://github.com/shubik22/BetterNote
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    by drKarl 12y ago

    Excellent explanation! Specially the fact that within a mainframe you can create hundreds or even thousands of virtualized linux guests, which can be created or destroyed on demand. That makes for a much more compelling use case!