[9fans] advice? fossil+venti (p9), vbackup+venti (p9p) vs. some other means of backup

2014-12-11 Thread Rudolf Sykora
Dear all, I'd like to ask for an advice/experience. Does anybody rely on a backup scheme using, say, vbackup+venti on linux? Does it work well, or would you recomment other means of doing a backup? I guess there are also people using fossil+venti on p9. Are those happy? I am looking for a susta

Re: [9fans] advice? fossil+venti (p9), vbackup+venti (p9p) vs. some other means of backup

2014-12-11 Thread David du Colombier
> I guess there are also people using fossil+venti on > p9. Are those happy? I'm using Fossil and Venti on Plan 9 and I'm quite happy. On my typical setup, I've two arenas partitions mirrored on two hard disks using venti/mirrorarenas. My main file server is mirrored to another file server using

Re: [9fans] advice? fossil+venti (p9), vbackup+venti (p9p) vs. some other means of backup

2014-12-11 Thread Anthony Sorace
> Does anybody rely on a backup scheme using, say, > vbackup+venti on linux? Does it work well, or would > you recomment other means of doing a backup? Not precisely what you're asking, but likely close enough experience to be useful: When last I was responsible for a bunch of unix boxes, I was

Re: [9fans] tcp port scanner

2014-12-11 Thread mischief
it turns out the right thing to do is to just consult cs directly, which can resolve any of 1.2.3.4, google.com, finn (where ndb has a sys=finn line), '$ipgw'.

Re: [9fans] tcp port scanner

2014-12-11 Thread lucio
> it turns out the right thing to do is to just consult cs directly, > which can resolve any of 1.2.3.4, google.com, finn (where ndb has a > sys=finn line), '$ipgw'. Ndb's only incurable problem (it may be curable, but it looks hard) is that it is strictly case sensitive in places, like the ethern