> -----Original Message----- > From: Greg Ihnen [mailto:os10ru...@gmail.com] > Sent: 16 August 2011 11:57 > To: Leigh Porter > Cc: Bryan Irvine; Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX); nanog@nanog.org > Subject: Re: How long is your rack? > > > On Aug 16, 2011, at 3:03 AM, Leigh Porter wrote: > > > > > > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: Bryan Irvine [mailto:sparcta...@gmail.com] > >> Sent: 15 August 2011 17:42 > >> To: Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX) > >> Cc: nanog@nanog.org > >> Subject: Re: How long is your rack? > >> > >> On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 1:49 PM, Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX) > >> <lyn...@orthanc.ca> wrote: > >>> I hope someone will explain the operational relevance > >>> of this ... > >>> > >>> Sun V100 FreeBSD firewall/border gateway > >>> Sun V100 Plan 9 kernel porting test bed > >>> Sun V100 OpenBSD build/test/port box > >>> Intel 8-core Solaris fileserver and zones host > >>> AMDx4 Random OS workstation crash box > >>> Epia-EK Plan 9 terminal > >>> MacBook x Snow Leopard build/test host > >>> Intel-mumble-ITX Win2K8.2 development host > >>> Supermicro XLS7A Plan 9 File server > >>> Supermicro XLS7A Plan 9 CPU/Auth server > >>> Sun V100 Oracle (blech) new-Solaris test/porting box > >>> Sun V100 crashbox for *BSD firewall failover tests > >>> Sun V100 *BSD ham radio stuff, plus Plan9 terminal > >>> kernal testing. > >> > >> OK, you've piqued my interest. What use have you found for Plan 9? > >> > > > > How do you guys find time for all this? I used to have a couple of > racks of boxes in the basement, then I got married, had three kids and > started a Theology PhD program.. Now anything I do at home is purely > practical. > > > > I took on some ideas for backup though, so I am sorting out a > backblaze account and using Randy's fantastic sync thing that he > mentioned. I really do not want 18 months of research to vanish. > > > > > > -- > > Leigh Porter > > > > One thing about Backblaze is they don't have redundant sites. They have > only one facility so if a giant meteor takes it out your data is gone. > Amazon's S3 is the way to go for data that matters. > > > Greg
I actually used S3 for a while and it was pretty good. I just need a single off-site backup dump. What do people use to automatically sync windows/mac/Linux desktops to something? I am using sugarsync at the moment, I would rather do something myself to sync say whenever I connect to my home network to a home server. -- Leigh ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________
