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On 1/24/25 4:27 AM, D wrote:
> 
> 
> On Thu, 23 Jan 2025, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:
> 
>> On 1/23/25 10:51 AM, D wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, 22 Jan 2025, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:
>>>
>>>>> Good stuff! I replicate between two countries for added resilience. 
>>>>> Both rsync and restic work great backing up to a tor hidden 
>>>>> service. To speed things up, the first backup can be done locally, 
>>>>> and after that, only deltas are sent from around the world.
>>>>
>>>>  That's how we do it.
>>>
>>> It is a powerful way to do it! =)
>>>
>>>>  Often you need just a few files from backup, ones somebody
>>>
>>> With restic you can do it from the client, or, you can mount the 
>>> backup and
>>> navigate the file tree to get any files you like from the server. 
>>> I've tried the
>>> server mount and it worked well, without any surprises. You can of 
>>> course do
>>> full restores as well to a separate folder on the client and move 
>>> what you like.
>>>
>>>>  oopsied, so huge zip archives can be a negative. OpenSSL
>>>>  works fast for encryption and the Winders version has
>>>>  almost exactly the same params. GPG is not so good in
>>>>  the file-by-file thing because it has a relatively
>>>>  long start-up time.
>>>>
>>>>  Have never used restic, I'll have to give it a look.
>>>
>>> Let me know if you find any weaknesses.
>>>
>>>>  Another way to back up is to 'fork' every file write
>>>>  to another, maybe even remote, drive. SoftRAID seems
>>>>  to know just what's being written but I've never
>>>>  figured out exactly how that works. The idea would
>>>>  be to feed the full file path/name of what's just
>>>>  been writ/modified into a (de-duplicated) list for
>>>>  some daemon or whatever to dupe to yer destination -
>>>>  local or cloud. This would be very quick and not bother
>>>>  the other gazillion unchanged files.
>>>
>>> At the dawn of time we used to setup replication between storage 
>>> systems, then
>>> snapshot the replica at various times per day, and for extra 
>>> security, write out
>>> the snapshots to tape for off site storage. That was backups for real 
>>> men!!
>>
>>
>>  Heh heh ... then I guess I was a Real Man right up
>>  until I retired  :-)
> 
> This is the truth! Based on an analysis of your texts it does indeed 
> seem like you are very manly!
> 
>>  Kept a 4-level scheme - main NAS, a mirror NAS that'd
>>  back up the main twice a day, a Pi+hdd in another
>>  building for the Most Important files pulled from
>>  the mirror NAS in the morning and then finally
>>  some cloud storage for a subset of the files. This
>>  seemed un-killable.
>>
>>  Once had tapes, SLOW bastards, but that went by the
>>  wayside. PRICED a decent tape drive lately ??? Kept a
>>  subset on a disk in my personal box too - mostly
>>  the high holy payroll stuff. Hey, priorities !  :-)
>>
>>  I think the new guys trust it all to Bill's Cloud.
>>  They're gonna get a rude surprise someday ...
> 
> I got an article published in a smaller newspaper the other day on this 
> theme. What happens when Trump turns off the cloud for your country 
> because he doesn't like your politicians? Will the public sector and 99% 
> of the companies continue to work?

   I don't THINK he'd do that - Musk would likely talk
   him out of it - but he MIGHT. Of course Vlad/Xi can
   produce the same effect for imperialist reasons, but
   even worse - nothing left to 'turn on' again, at
   least in a usefully timely fashion.

   IMHO, 'cloud' is just too vulnerable to too many
   hostile interests. Should NEVER be your main
   backup, or working, repository. Can all go bye-bye
   tomorrow. A local NAS is far safer.

   But the people lobbying yer pointy-haired bosses
   will say the exact opposite ....

> This generated a small storm on my linkedin. I've been harping on it for 
> years, but now that Trump is in power, it seems like the public was 
> finally ready for my message. ;)

   Even if he'd never do it - the potential THREAT is
   enough to Change Thinking ... hopefully towards
   the smarter.