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Comment ZFS send/receive + restic (Score 1) 283

by Main MAn on Monday March 08, 2021 @08:25AM (#61135630) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What Do You Use for Backups at Home?

All my filesystems are ZFS and I have an external USB disk which has a zpool on top of LUKS so I just have to zfs send/receive. Full backup every time, just take a couple minutes.

I also keep a smaller set of my stuff in the cloud using restic + Google storage (coldline). Costs me about $0.30/month

Comment You know what else tastes like bacon? (Score 1) 174

by Main MAn on Friday July 17, 2015 @11:21AM (#50128715) Attached to: Scientists Develop Nutritious Seaweed That Tastes Like Bacon

Bacon.

Comment Good idea! (Score 4, Funny) 526

by Main MAn on Wednesday March 18, 2009 @09:14AM (#27239939) Attached to: Sun In Talks To Be Acquired By IBM

Why nobody though about that before?

1- Buy Sun
2- License ZFS under GPLv2
3- Sell Sun
4- Done

A Taste of FreeBSD With VirtualBSD 43

Posted by timothy on Tuesday March 10, 2009 @09:13AM from the touches-of-os-x dept.

ReeceTarbert writes "If you wanted to try FreeBSD but didn't have the right hardware, or enough time to make it useful on the desktop, VirtualBSD might fit the bill: it's a VMware appliance based on FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE and features the Xfce 4 Desktop Environment and a few of the most common applications to make it very functional right out of the box. If you're curious you can have a look at the screenshots, or proceed to the download page and grab the torrent file right away. (Note: VirtualBSD also works in VirtualBox 2.x as long as you create a new virtual machine and select the virtual disk from the archive instead of creating a new one)."

Comment Re:Boredom is worse than poverty (Score 3, Funny) 275

by Main MAn on Friday February 27, 2009 @09:46AM (#27010839) Attached to: Without Jobs, Will Open Source Suffer?

What you mean bored? Go watch some TV. If nothing else there is always some infomercials going on!

Comment Tell me when it's done (Score 2, Insightful) 109

by Main MAn on Thursday February 19, 2009 @01:26PM (#26918683) Attached to: 350,000 Linux (Virtual) Desktops Land In Brazil

The Brazilian government is really good in announcing things, but not really good in making them happen. ie http://br-linux.org/2008/um-ano-apos-fiasco-governo-marca-novo-pregao-por-laptops-educacionais

So let me know when they start to deploy it.

350,000 Linux (Virtual) Desktops Land In Brazil 109

Posted by timothy on Thursday February 19, 2009 @01:12PM from the rip-helio-gracie dept.

xufem writes "Millions of Brazilian schoolchildren will soon be 'brought up right' running Linux on over 350,000 seats each using PC sharing hardware and software from Userful and KDE. This is world's largest virtual desktop deployment and probably also the world's largest Linux deployment, and seems to have been selected over OLPC by Brazil. Definitely a moment to celebrate — and just in time for Brazilian Carnival which starts tomorrow!"

Comment Re:RIP My Friend (Score 1) 300

by Main MAn on Thursday February 12, 2009 @01:46PM (#26830177) Attached to: Palm Pulls the Plug On Palm OS

Not

FreeBSD 6.4 Released 64

Posted by timothy on Tuesday December 02, 2008 @10:14AM from the unsung-but-nicely-free dept.

hmallett writes "FreeBSD 6.4-RELEASE, the fifth release from the 6-STABLE branch of FreeBSD development, is now available. In addition to being hosted at many FTP sites, ISO images can be downloaded via the BitTorrent tracker, or for users of earlier FreeBSD releases, FreeBSD Update can be used to perform a binary upgrade."

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