gcc42

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   by gcc42 6y ago

   rsync...is not a backup strategy, being exactly as vulnerable to ransomware are as your local file. Unless you pair it with something else, but then that's not exactly 'rsync for backup'
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   by gcc42 6y ago

   I thought about this exact problem a month ago when I got paranoid (I'm on Windows) , and my solution involved setting up a separate cheap Linux node in my home and attaching my backup drive to it. The server is locally SSHable, but on
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   by gcc42 6y ago

   Yep, agreed. Most of this advice is useful even if you're just building an open source project that you're passionate about, and your post helps a lot. Nobody wants to build a product in vaccum that has no users, no matter how bri
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   by gcc42 6y ago

   Yeah I'm sure that's what dinosaurs thought.
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   by gcc42 6y ago

   Do it. I have a cheap Linux server (non pi) running in my home, and it's immeasurably useful. It functions as a combination of a backup server (with an attached 8tb drive), Plex server (another 2 Tb media drive), PiHole host and MITmpr
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   by gcc42 6y ago

   Oh man I'd pay so much to be able to own bar.baz.
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   by gcc42 6y ago

   > Get your own domain from a non-google registrar The funny (er, scary) thing is I was actually thinking of switching to Google registrar for my domain after namecheap messed up their CNAME records and dropped a few days of emails (I alr