And speaking from experience, it's _much_ more reliable than DVD-R or
CD-R as
long as the discs are correctly written in the first place.
For long-term storage, you have other risks to manage, not the
simple technical risk of "will my portable-USB disk be readable in
2038?".
If you are a ho
On Wed, Nov 22, 2023 at 08:23:40PM +0100, i...@tutanota.com wrote:
> > Once data is no longer "work in progress", archive it to write-only
> > media and take it out of the regular backup loop.
>
> What kind of write-only media do you use/recommend?
It depends on quite a few factors including the
> Once data is no longer "work in progress", archive it to write-only
> media and take it out of the regular backup loop.
What kind of write-only media do you use/recommend?
Hello,
I have two ISPs where one connection is primary and the other is low-bandwidth
for temporary failover only. ifstated handles the failover by simply changing
the default gateway. But under normal conditions I want to be able to connect
via either connection at any time without changing th
Thank you for the reply.
I found this software interesting as one of the few opensource offer in its
category and
the doc is very coincise in describing things and workflow.
Indeed, Unix is not advertised (as usual) but the downloadable package contains
the "wrapper" for the most *important* Uni
On Wed, Nov 22, 2023 at 01:46:28AM +0100, Nowarez Market wrote:
> Just to drop the hint that GoCD at the moment (Nov 2023)
> among the Unix "wrappers" FreeBSD, AIX, HP-UX, Solaris
> miss the wrapper for OpenBSD and GoCD server immediately hangs
> pointing to the missing resources.
Did you actually
Also missing the target could be enough ironic:
- about bloated html and js ask GitHub;
- about the security of /tmp ask Theo.
Anyway consider to download Tiny Tools from https://bsdload.com
-- Nowarez Market
Nov 22, 2023 12:08:36 Crystal Kolipe :
> On Wed, Nov 22, 2023 at 11:44:12AM +0100, N
On Wed, Nov 22, 2023 at 09:49:53AM +0100, Maja Reberc wrote:
> Does anyone recommend FAT32-formatted 1 TB external HDDs for
> OS-portable backups (using archive splitting to bypass the 4 GB limit)?
> I've heard FAT32 is very inefficient with big partitions. I currently
> have a mess of ext4 for Lin
On Wed, Nov 22, 2023 at 11:44:12AM +0100, Nowarez Market wrote:
> https://github.com/par7133/tiny-tools
There is something ironic about having to download 204345 bytes of bloated
html and javascript just to get the 170 bytes of source code for 'checkmd5'.
But anyway, one improvement you could mak
Just made an addition to Tiny Tools for OpenBSD:
checkmd5, an md5 checksum utility
check256, a sha256 checksum utility
You can find it here:
https://github.com/par7133/tiny-tools
== Nowarez Market
On Wed, 22 Nov 2023 06:47:11 -0300
Crystal Kolipe wrote:
> I don't want to encourage people to just copy and paste some random
> scripts that were written to meet our needs but most likely don't
> exactly meet theirs.
>
> But as a _starting point for writing your own_, the following script
> wil
On Wed, Nov 22, 2023 at 09:49:53AM +0100, Maja Reberc wrote:
> Would you mind sharing the scripts you mentioned for us newbies?
I don't want to encourage people to just copy and paste some random scripts
that were written to meet our needs but most likely don't exactly meet theirs.
But as a _star
On Wed, 22 Nov 2023 05:25:22 -0300
Crystal Kolipe wrote:
> We have been doing "something similar", in fact much simpler, on
> OpenBSD and other unix-like systems for > 25 years.
>
> It's trivially simple to protect your data, and you along with
> 99.999% of other people seem to be over thinking i
On 2023-11-22, Chris Narkiewicz wrote:
> I'm experimentin with auto-install over network using linux libvirt
> (qemu).
>
> I managed to load pxeboot in BIOS mode and I'm wondering if UEFI
> is supported.
>
> According to this blog, I should load BOOTX64.EFI instead of pxeboot.
>
> https://eradman.
On Wed, Nov 22, 2023 at 04:16:00AM +0100, i...@tutanota.com wrote:
> Running disks in RAID1 or RAID5 (pick your poison) with softraid.
>
> Then for every important big file use something like par2cmdline to
> create parity data.
>
> par2cmdline can be used to verify and re-create files.
>
> I wo
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