I've given out jwz's link to several people: https://www.jwz.org/doc/backups.html (maybe copy/paste this into browser instead of following link, since referrer from hn apparently does something)
Clicks on the link…yeah that’s accurate
Backups Aren't Simple
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Re: Backups Aren't Simple
#222Hey kids
It’s simple
1) separate data from applications 2) use a real filesystem like zfs or btrfs 3) cronjob snapshot, replicate onsite, replicate offsite 4) monitor size of volumes and snapshots, delete them as your policy 5) periodic zfs and btrfs scrub
End of fucking story. No need for all that tricky shit y’all are doing.
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#223Earlier quoted context omitted.
>I now shoot 2 cards simultaneously A very lovely change over the last 8 years or so lol. I came up in film during the DSLR revolution. 5D2’s/7D’s/Rebels (i series) years. 8bit 420 nasty aliasing recording on single cards and praying baby. Magic lantern booted on those same SD’s!
Magic Lantern was awesome. I still have raw video sequences I shot on a 5D mkiii
Can you even get the software to process it anymore? That was such an exciting time
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#224Earlier quoted context omitted.
>I now shoot 2 cards simultaneously A very lovely change over the last 8 years or so lol. I came up in film during the DSLR revolution. 5D2’s/7D’s/Rebels (i series) years. 8bit 420 nasty aliasing recording on single cards and praying baby. Magic lantern booted on those same SD’s!
Mainstream DSLRs with dual card slots came out 22 years ago.
That’s not true in the slightest. None of Canon’s 50D and up line, 7D line, 5D line, and rebel line did anywhere near that long ago. I did not shoot on Nikons back then but I imagine most of their fleet didn’t have dual slot recording either. You’d have to get high end pro gear until 10-12 years ago for it.
The 5D3 was first, so that was like 12 or 13 years ago now. It rolled out after that over a few years across their fleet.
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#225Earlier quoted context omitted.
And harm a lot too, you phone can't deep sleep since it has to wake up periodically to process data from bluetooth stack. Combined with slow transfer speed, that gonna eat your battery like nothing.
Playing audio over bluetooth also wakes things periodically, but it uses almost no power. With a similarly competent design photo transfer should be very battery efficient.
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I also have the same fuji. Digital cameras are still in the stone ages. I think Tony Northrup covered it well. Nothing has changed since digital cameras came to market, the workflow is still the same, copy files from a card to PC. They aren't connected to the internet, they don't have automatic syncing to cloud for backups or sharing, fuji doesn't even have a gps chip built in to store the location (only works if con…
In some senses it's good. That feature list just says "use a smartphone then". No thank you. It's everything that a camera should not be. GPS is useful, but not wifi. I don't need my camera becoming another IOT always online telemetry device. They're one of the few electronic devices built to last. Imagine needing fingerprint unlock on a camera, and for what? Prevent others from viewing your photos? Changing your set…
Looks like someone is hurt in the SD card slot, hah.
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#227There are four times in my life I have suffered regrettable data loss incidents. The first was when the telephone pole outside our house was struck directly by lightning. Not only was it the loudest thing I have ever heard, the current surged through the telephone line, into the internal fax modem, and fries everything within its vicinity. I was 10. I did have backuos, but only only floppy and they didn't cover every…
>I did have backuos, but only only floppy and they didn't cover everything. This made me remember the time during the 90s when I lost all my BASIC programs due to a hard disk crash, and seeing me sitting sad, my mother handed me a bunch of floppies and asked me to see if they contain something useful. And turned out that it had all the programs! I took the backups and forgot about that. Apparently that is one of the…
metabackup?
startup opportunity.
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