What Are You Doing Right Now
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Good morning all!! Happy to be alive today.
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having a moral issue because I am going to have to convert my laptop to a coding machine, since my custom desktop doesn't have the space, it seems. Probably better anyway, to make me more mobile, but it's more efficient for me to basically reformat it, since it's been so slow. I just have a lot of sorting to do of pictures and music on the device. It's been my primary mobile media system.
So I need to back everything up, so looks like investment in a few 64GB flash drives is in my future to back all that up. and then I will have a Linux laptop. Never used Linux before.
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Think I've got my Pi's behaving. Key one was to just leave it for a few hours before doing the update/upgrade commands. Guess something runs in the background on first install and boot.
2nd thing to "figure" out is how to "gracefully" close all tabs and exit chromium on a schedule i.e. 2am in the morning.
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@quixoticgerber said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
So I need to back everything up, so looks like investment in a few 64GB flash drives is in my future to back all that up. and then I will have a Linux laptop. Never used Linux before.
That is not a backup, it is a copy. It is also totally not how backups work.
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Installing updates on workstations all day.
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@jaredbusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@quixoticgerber said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
So I need to back everything up, so looks like investment in a few 64GB flash drives is in my future to back all that up. and then I will have a Linux laptop. Never used Linux before.
That is not a backup, it is a copy. It is also totally not how backups work.
It's correct to say it's no longer a backup once there is only one copy - the copy on the USB stick. For one to have a true backup, you'd have to have at least two copies (a copy on two different USB sticks).
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@quixoticgerber should look at something like BackBlaze.
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@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@quixoticgerber should look at something like BackBlaze.
Not for Linux
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@jaredbusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@quixoticgerber should look at something like BackBlaze.
Not for Linux
Ah, there it is. I was thinking it wouldn't work for some reason.
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@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@jaredbusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@quixoticgerber said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
So I need to back everything up, so looks like investment in a few 64GB flash drives is in my future to back all that up. and then I will have a Linux laptop. Never used Linux before.
That is not a backup, it is a copy. It is also totally not how backups work.
It's correct to say it's no longer a backup once there is only one copy - the copy on the USB stick. For one to have a true backup, you'd have to have at least two copies (a copy on two different USB sticks).
No. Making a copy of the data is part of a back up but it is not a back up. Ever.
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Just scored two tix to Justice League for tonight's preview.
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@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Just scored two tix to Justice League for tonight's preview.
I'm sorry.
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@quixoticgerber said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
having a moral issue because I am going to have to convert my laptop to a coding machine, since my custom desktop doesn't have the space, it seems. Probably better anyway, to make me more mobile, but it's more efficient for me to basically reformat it, since it's been so slow. I just have a lot of sorting to do of pictures and music on the device. It's been my primary mobile media system.
So I need to back everything up, so looks like investment in a few 64GB flash drives is in my future to back all that up. and then I will have a Linux laptop. Never used Linux before.
Maybe something like Google Drive or Amazon Drive or Dropbox would make sense for you.
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@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Just scored two tix to Justice League for tonight's preview.
I'm sorry.
LOL - Was fully expecting that from Scott.
Hey free tix, and I wanted to see it anyhow, even if it sucks.
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@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@jaredbusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@quixoticgerber should look at something like BackBlaze.
Not for Linux
Ah, there it is. I was thinking it wouldn't work for some reason.
CrashPlan should work on Linux.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@quixoticgerber said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
having a moral issue because I am going to have to convert my laptop to a coding machine, since my custom desktop doesn't have the space, it seems. Probably better anyway, to make me more mobile, but it's more efficient for me to basically reformat it, since it's been so slow. I just have a lot of sorting to do of pictures and music on the device. It's been my primary mobile media system.
So I need to back everything up, so looks like investment in a few 64GB flash drives is in my future to back all that up. and then I will have a Linux laptop. Never used Linux before.
Maybe something like Google Drive or Amazon Drive or Dropbox would make sense for you.
I'm a big fan of Amazon Cloud Drive... even though they've capped the storage available to customers.
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@jaredbusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@quixoticgerber should look at something like BackBlaze.
Not for Linux
Duplicati and Backblaze B2. Weather it makes financial sense you'd have to figure out as it's a different pricing model. It's what I've been using for my personal stuff.
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@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@jaredbusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@quixoticgerber should look at something like BackBlaze.
Not for Linux
Duplicati and Backblaze B2. Weather it makes financial sense you'd have to figure out as it's a different pricing model. It's what I've been using for my personal stuff.
B2 Is double the cost of crash plan for me
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@jaredbusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@jaredbusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@quixoticgerber should look at something like BackBlaze.
Not for Linux
Duplicati and Backblaze B2. Weather it makes financial sense you'd have to figure out as it's a different pricing model. It's what I've been using for my personal stuff.
B2 Is double the cost of crash plan for me
Yep, not a good choice for you!
