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Comment My personal solution... (Score 2) 289

The particular products can be swapped out, but FWIW this is what I do for my personal files....

First of all....I'm a Mac user (dodges brick thrown at head).

In my home network, I have a TrueNAS server, which has one primary 4-disk "data" pool that uses raidz1 and that is shared on the local network using SMB (yes, I know that isn't a "backup"). The TrueNAS server also has several single-disk pools residing on external HDDs that I use for local backups. Most of my long-term data resides on this "data" pool. I have TrueNAS configured to take hourly snapshots of the datasets on this "data" pool (with a retention numbered in weeks), and to replicate one of those snapshots per day to one of the external HDDs (with a retention numbered in months). Also, a TrueNAS cloud sync task pushes the most "irreplaceable" portion of this data to Wasabi once a day (encrypted, of course).

One of the external HDDs is devoted to backups of my Macs, and TrueNAS presents one dataset as an SMB share and another dataset as S3 storage (which is reachable via the Internet thanks to DDNS). I know that I should probably separate the SMB and S3 datasets onto separate HDDs. Each of my Macs is configured to back up to the SMB share using TimeMachine, and to the S3 share using Arq (https://www.arqbackup.com). The Arq backup works whether I'm on the LAN or not, so my laptop still backs up when I'm away from home. Also, most of the real critical data on my Macs also resides in either iCloud or OneDrive...so these backups are mostly for convenience--I could toss any of these computers in a lake and not really lose any critical data even without the Time Machine and Arq backups. I use Cryptomator to encrypt the most sensitive data that I store in iCloud or OneDrive.

This is probably an overkill for a home network, but I'm pretty happy with the setup. I get a diversity of backups, stored both locally and remotely.

Comment Re:CUPS (Score 1) 64

Hmm Comon Unix Printing System has little to do with applr, Apple may use it, they Might even have added some ayro duscovery. But callingnitt Apple CUPS is a bitof a stretch, unless the forked it and now maintain their ow sourcevtree

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...:
"Michael Sweet, who owned Easy Software Products, started developing CUPS in 1997 and the first public betas appeared in 1999. The original design of CUPS used the Line Printer Daemon protocol (LPD) protocol, but due to limitations in LPD and vendor incompatibilities, the Internet Printing Protocol (IPP) was chosen instead. CUPS was quickly adopted as the default printing system for most Linux distributions. In March 2002, Apple Inc. adopted CUPS as the printing system for Mac OS X 10.2. In February 2007, Apple Inc. hired chief developer Michael Sweet and purchased the CUPS source code."

https://github.com/apple/cups (README.md):
"CUPS is a standards-based, open source printing system developed by Apple Inc. for macOS® and other UNIX®-like operating systems."

Comment Re:It's fucking *CHALK* for cying out loud (Score 4, Interesting) 108

From TFA: "A hose may be in order if the city decides to rid itself of the tweets. Spray chalk, according to manufacturers’ websites, is harder to remove than regular chalk. Erasing the ads may call for a concentrated spray of water, light brushing and sometimes household cleaners."

Comment OS X (Score 2) 611

Having spent many years deeply entrenched in Linux, I got sick of keeping up with the forks, design shifts, and general flux of the desktop environment. I migrated to Mac and haven't looked back. Well, I guess I have looked back. I occasionally run new Linux distro releases in VMWare to see how things are shaping up...only to have my move to OS X validated.

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