Re: [Emc-users] color me pissed

2019-01-16 Thread Chris Albertson
Apple's Time Machine and Linux can interact but it involves using networking sophisticated ways, iSCSI and SAN and all that... I mentioned Apple and TM only because it showed that incremental backs with space constraints could be made easy to understand for casual computer users. The idea seems t

Re: [Emc-users] color me pissed

2019-01-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 16 January 2019 05:36:33 andy pugh wrote: > On Tue, 15 Jan 2019 at 23:43, Gene Heskett wrote: > > But no one has mentioned the name of something that will backup only > > the changes, that can be started in the background to accomplish > > this instant incremental backup while one i

Re: [Emc-users] Fusion360 gcode= "Radius to end arc differs from radius start"

2019-01-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 16 January 2019 11:50:05 Jon Elson wrote: > On 01/16/2019 01:42 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Tuesday 15 January 2019 22:42:11 Jon Elson wrote: > >> I use a bunch of C programs I have written over the years to > >> write G-code for specific operations (round holes, slots, > >> etc.)

Re: [Emc-users] Fusion360 gcode= "Radius to end arc differs from radius start"

2019-01-16 Thread Jon Elson
On 01/16/2019 01:42 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Tuesday 15 January 2019 22:42:11 Jon Elson wrote: I use a bunch of C programs I have written over the years to write G-code for specific operations (round holes, slots, etc.) and these all use R word arcs in quadrants. Tell me more about this pl

Re: [Emc-users] color me pissed

2019-01-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 16 January 2019 04:46:14 Chris Albertson wrote: > The words "level 0", and "level 1" and so on make me think your > software must be based in the UNIX "dump" utility. And dump is about > 20 years old now. Nope, using the latest tar. > Typically what people did back then was but scr

Re: [Emc-users] Backup practice [Was: Re: color me pissed

2019-01-16 Thread Erik Christiansen
On 15.01.19 10:22, Chris Albertson wrote: > On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 4:36 PM Erik Christiansen > wrote: ... > > > > In reality, there's always more than one way to eat an elephant, so > > there's no real need to complicate life by making backups a growing > > agglomeration of deltas¹. The nifty and

Re: [Emc-users] color me pissed

2019-01-16 Thread andy pugh
On Tue, 15 Jan 2019 at 23:43, Gene Heskett wrote: > But no one has mentioned the name of something that will backup only the > changes, that can be started in the background to accomplish this > instant incremental backup while one is working on a project. Well, there was a mention of the Apple

Re: [Emc-users] Massive backup Re: color me pissed

2019-01-16 Thread Chris Albertson
Hard drives cost abut $24 to $30 per TB. It is now the best backup storage. Backblaze offers "unlimited" backup storage for $5 per month this is even cheaper than hard drives if you have a LOT of data. On Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 3:18 AM Gregg Eshelman via Emc-users < emc-users@lists.sourceforge

Re: [Emc-users] color me pissed

2019-01-16 Thread Chris Albertson
The words "level 0", and "level 1" and so on make me think your software must be based in the UNIX "dump" utility. And dump is about 20 years old now. Typically what people did back then was but scripts in the UNIX contab that ran dump every night. We used carting tapes back then so it made sense