Re: [GTALUG] Backups with Bacula

2018-10-29 Thread Howard Gibson via talk 
On Mon, 29 Oct 2018 15:35:20 -0400
Giles Orr via talk  wrote:

> I used to use a rotating set of 2TB 2.5" external USB hard drives.  None of
> them ever failed on me over about three years use, although three out of
> four they were generally only accessed every week or two.  I've now
> switched to three 4TB 2.5" drives: the heavily used one of those is now
> stuttering (confirming my pre-existing bias against Seagate ... the
> previous set were WD).  The 2.5" spinning drives are somewhat more
> expensive than the 3.5", but they're much smaller - and, important in this
> use case, more built for movement and frequent spin-up/spin-down.

   I have been using an internal 4TB hard drive as my nightly backup.  I am now 
on to my second hard drive.  Periodically, I transfer my backup to a 50GB 
Blu-Ray disk.  Obviously, this constrains my /home partion to an extent that 
may be unacceptable to you.  On a couple of occasasion now, I have pulled out 
months old disks to recover files I unknowingly deleted.  I like to permanently 
archive my backups.  

   I am getting concerned about Blu-Ray burners.  Is there another cheap, high 
capacity medium out there?

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Re: [GTALUG] USB-C port was Aging Dell monitor (U3011)

2018-10-29 Thread Giles Orr via talk 
One possible solution (which you may not need anymore, but I thought I'd
throw it out there) is to run xrandr or arandr to switch off the monitor.
This would bring all the windows back onto the primary monitor.  You could
then try using [xa]randr to turn the monitor back on, which might "refresh"
the monitor.

All guesses.  Hope this helps.

On Wed, 24 Oct 2018 at 21:00, Michael Hill via talk  wrote:

> Solution (for now): set BIOS Thunderbolt Security setting to DisplayPort.
>
> Carry on.
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Re: [GTALUG] Backups with Bacula

2018-10-29 Thread Giles Orr via talk 
On Tue, 23 Oct 2018 at 15:52, Lennart Sorensen via talk 
wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 04:21:41PM -0400, Christopher Browne via talk
> wrote:
> > Bacula has always seemed to be one of the good options out there, and
> > running it on FreeNAS is certainly well supported.
> >
> > There's nothing obviously wrong with your approach to rsync to a
> > remote place or copy to external HDD for rotation.
> >
> > Madison Kelly did a talk on something akin back in 2004; Madison was
> > the first person I heard that particularly "championed" using
> > USB-connected HDDs as a backup medium at the time that tape drives
> > were only just starting to get supplanted as a backup medium.
> >
> > Since then, that direction has become somewhere in between "viable"
> > and "preferable."  And it now looks like tape drives are pretty rarely
> > used anymore, as rarity has made it difficult for vendors to boost
> > capacity as quickly as is the case for disk drives.  *Everyone* wants
> > bigger HDDs.  (Well, we're starting to glimpse a place where solid
> > state drives are getting sufficiently large and cheap that a lot of
> > computer systems now prefer SSD, and we may see HDDs go somewhat down
> > the road that tape drives have...)
> >
> > Rotating the HDDs so that they do get spun up fairly regularly is a good
> idea.
>
> My experience some years ago with 3 USB harddrives that were rotated
> weekly was that the disks didn't last long.  3.5" HDs do not like
> being moved a lot and frequently died.  Moving to tape was way way
> more reliable but certainly had a higher cost in terms of getting a
> tape drive and for recovery you might need another tape drive while a
> USB drive works with anything.
>
> If your backup is pretty small though, USB attached SSD seems like it
> could be a very reliable solution.
>

I used to use a rotating set of 2TB 2.5" external USB hard drives.  None of
them ever failed on me over about three years use, although three out of
four they were generally only accessed every week or two.  I've now
switched to three 4TB 2.5" drives: the heavily used one of those is now
stuttering (confirming my pre-existing bias against Seagate ... the
previous set were WD).  The 2.5" spinning drives are somewhat more
expensive than the 3.5", but they're much smaller - and, important in this
use case, more built for movement and frequent spin-up/spin-down.

And I have to disagree with Anthony on this one: spinning disks are going
to be in use for a while as external backups: sure, they're slow, but this
is a BACKUP.  Cost per terabyte is immensely lower and speed isn't usually
the priority, and you can put multiple copies of backups (or diffs, or
whatever suits you) on one large external.

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Re: [GTALUG] IBM Acquires Red Hat for $34B | News & Opinion | PCMag.com

2018-10-29 Thread James Knott via talk 
Ahh...  You're a former IBMer.  Me too.

On 10/29/2018 12:04 PM, David Ing i...@daviding.com wrote:
> James, thanks for that Monday morning news link.  I've added it to the
> response (since someone asked on Sunday)
> at 
> https://www.quora.com/Does-IBM-s-acquisition-of-Red-Hat-hurt-the-open-source-community/answer/David-Ing-4
>
> On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 11:36 AM James Knott via talk  > wrote:
>
> IIRC, IBM had done a lot of work with SUSE in the past.
>
> 
> https://www.pcmag.com/news/364649/ibm-acquires-red-hat-for-34b?utm_source=email_campaign=whatsnewnow_medium=title
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Re: [GTALUG] IBM Acquires Red Hat for $34B | News & Opinion | PCMag.com

2018-10-29 Thread David Ing isss--- via talk 
James, thanks for that Monday morning news link.  I've added it to the
response (since someone asked on Sunday) at
https://www.quora.com/Does-IBM-s-acquisition-of-Red-Hat-hurt-the-open-source-community/answer/David-Ing-4

On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 11:36 AM James Knott via talk 
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> IIRC, IBM had done a lot of work with SUSE in the past.
>
>
> https://www.pcmag.com/news/364649/ibm-acquires-red-hat-for-34b?utm_source=email_campaign=whatsnewnow_medium=title
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[GTALUG] IBM Acquires Red Hat for $34B | News & Opinion | PCMag.com

2018-10-29 Thread James Knott via talk 
IIRC, IBM had done a lot of work with SUSE in the past.

https://www.pcmag.com/news/364649/ibm-acquires-red-hat-for-34b?utm_source=email_campaign=whatsnewnow_medium=title

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