"Git-annex now auto-syncing photos from my android phone
to a Tor hidden SSH service I control (via
@guardianproject's Orbot) #prismbreak"
Sustaining git-annex development
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Re: Sustaining git-annex development
#12For those of you wondering whether this is worth supporting, the answer is Yes. I work with a lot of smart engineers, and periodically ask them what they do for personal backup of images, video, etc. I don't think I've yet talked to someone who was satisfied with their system. Git annex (with the assistant) brings me closer to my ideal system than I've been before: a drive at home, one in my desk drawer at work for f…
Time Machine to a local drive for immediate restores. Backblaze for disaster recovery.
Time Machine could easily be replaced by cron and tar or some other local backup option. Other backup providers are easily found.
This is not to say anything about git-annex's usefulness or the value of supporting the developer. It just surprises me when engineers are still struggling with backups. I can kind of understand "regular folk", but that's not really the git-annex market, either.
Re: Sustaining git-annex development
#13For those of you wondering whether this is worth supporting, the answer is Yes. I work with a lot of smart engineers, and periodically ask them what they do for personal backup of images, video, etc. I don't think I've yet talked to someone who was satisfied with their system. Git annex (with the assistant) brings me closer to my ideal system than I've been before: a drive at home, one in my desk drawer at work for f…
Time Machine to a local drive for immediate restores. Backblaze for disaster recovery. Time Machine could easily be replaced by cron and tar or some other local backup option. Other backup providers are easily found. This is not to say anything about git-annex's usefulness or the value of supporting the developer. It just surprises me when engineers are still struggling with backups. I can kind of understand "regular…
Can you use Time Machine to shuttle data via a USB stick? How well does it work when you have more than two drives that you want to keep mostly synchronized?
Re: Sustaining git-annex development
#14We (rsync.net) are supporting git-annex by offering all git-annex users a heavily discounted rsync.net account.
This was announced a few days ago, but not on HN in any way:
http://rsync.net/products/git-annex-pricing.html
We've been explicitly supporting git-annex on our platform since our friend Jason Scott first showed it to us[1] and we will be contributing to the new campaign.
Re: Sustaining git-annex development
#15How does git-annex compare to bittorrent-sync? (I'm a big fan of Joey's other work, so I bet this is top notch, there just seems to be more momentum behind bittorrent-sync.)
Use cases overlap partially, but are generally quite distinct.
I think they could potentially complement one another, especially if bittorrent-sync used an open protocol, so I could adapt one of the haskell bittorrent clients (which seem to make excellent use of haskell's concurrency from what I've read) to use it.
Re: Sustaining git-annex development
#16His personal finances are really impressive. Selling his fulltime dedication for 12k/year...
His arrangements are interesting, to say the least, see http://joey.hess.usesthis.com/ . The whole thing is worth a read, but here's a sample: > So the whole house runs on 12 volt DC power to avoid the overhead of an inverter; my laptop is powered through a succession of cheap vehicle power adapters, and my home server runs on 5 volt power provided by a USB adapter.
There's also his notes to a caretaker: http://joeyh.name/blog/entry/notes_for_a_caretaker/
Re: Sustaining git-annex development
#17For those of you wondering whether this is worth supporting, the answer is Yes. I work with a lot of smart engineers, and periodically ask them what they do for personal backup of images, video, etc. I don't think I've yet talked to someone who was satisfied with their system. Git annex (with the assistant) brings me closer to my ideal system than I've been before: a drive at home, one in my desk drawer at work for f…
rdiff-backup to coalesce several data sources (hg, databases, email, photos..) on my desktop workstation into one local copy with retention / reverse-incremental consolidation,
rsync to take it to a second box in the house,
rsyncrypto to take it offsite to two separate cheap lowendbox VPSes (was originally rsync'ing a truecrypt container)
I might rearrange a couple of these steps to move the retention stage slightly further away from my main workstation, to better protect against the kind of malware that encrypts all your files and extorts a ransom
Re: Sustaining git-annex development
#18We (rsync.net) are supporting git-annex by offering all git-annex users a heavily discounted rsync.net account. This was announced a few days ago, but not on HN in any way: http://rsync.net/products/git-annex-pricing.html We've been explicitly supporting git-annex on our platform since our friend Jason Scott first showed it to us[1] and we will be contributing to the new campaign. [1] http://ascii.textfiles.com/archi…
awesome!
Re: Sustaining git-annex development
#19We (rsync.net) are supporting git-annex by offering all git-annex users a heavily discounted rsync.net account. This was announced a few days ago, but not on HN in any way: http://rsync.net/products/git-annex-pricing.html We've been explicitly supporting git-annex on our platform since our friend Jason Scott first showed it to us[1] and we will be contributing to the new campaign. [1] http://ascii.textfiles.com/archi…
That's nice :)
And just so people know without having to check the site:
> git-annex users may sign up for our full featured offsite filesystem at a rate of 10 cents per GB, per month. An annual payment is required, and the minimum account size is 50 GB. There are no usage/bandwidth charges, no signup fee, and no contract to sign.
Re: Sustaining git-annex development
#20His personal finances are really impressive. Selling his fulltime dedication for 12k/year...
Not that it’s his case, but $12k/year is quite a reasonable amount of money in a lot of parts of the world. As an example, here in the Czech Republic you can live a decent life for that amount with all the usual comforts.