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I used to run Linux for everything but I’m having to use Windows these days. What would it take to get rsync.net playing nicely with windows? I’m imagining Windows subsystem for Linux (ubuntu) with duplicity installed to it? Are there any major hiccups to that sort of setup?
I used to run Linux for everything but I’m having to use Windows these days. What would it take to get rsync.net playing nicely with windows? I’m imagining Windows subsystem for Linux (ubuntu) with duplicity installed to it? Are there any major hiccups to that sort of setup?
However, if you want a backup process then you will, indeed, need to find some way to run 'borg' or 'restic' or 'rclone' on Windows.
I've never used WSL so I can't comment, unfortunately ...
I wonder if they have any sales to large enterprises or similar institutions. In my experience, the larger organizations will have a "security" questionnaire required of their vendors, and the person administering it is a droid, incapable of evaluating whether the questions, originally written in the mid-00s and only updated for buzzword compliance since, are applicable to modern security practice today, or to the pa…
I used to (late 2000s) work for a tiny, tiny company that was courting a customer in the mobile banking space. They wanted us to tick boxes. So we bought a box (some sort of Fortinet) that said it was a firewall and IDS. Plugged it in, used it as our new router. "Cost of doing business." Could we have argued with them during the sales process? Only if we wanted to lose the sale. The Fortinet was cheap compared to the…
I wonder if they have any sales to large enterprises or similar institutions. In my experience, the larger organizations will have a "security" questionnaire required of their vendors, and the person administering it is a droid, incapable of evaluating whether the questions, originally written in the mid-00s and only updated for buzzword compliance since, are applicable to modern security practice today, or to the pa…
"I wonder if they have any sales to large enterprises or similar institutions." Yes, certainly. We frequently fill out very detailed checklists and questionnaires related to our quality policy, standards, internal policies, etc. We're also very honest about how we approach these issues: https://www.rsync.net/resources/regulatory/pci.html ... and they generally appreciate the honesty.
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I used to (late 2000s) work for a tiny, tiny company that was courting a customer in the mobile banking space. They wanted us to tick boxes. So we bought a box (some sort of Fortinet) that said it was a firewall and IDS. Plugged it in, used it as our new router. "Cost of doing business." Could we have argued with them during the sales process? Only if we wanted to lose the sale. The Fortinet was cheap compared to the…
Could you share what firms you're working with now so I can skip doing business with them?
Nice article. rsync.net is one part of my personal computing setup that I never even think twice about. It's simple and it works, and that clearly applies to the infrastructure too. I use ZFS locally and it has made managing my own data strangely pleasing, and it's nice to have the same system on my off-site storage too. On the laptop-front, I find myself drifting towards a similar setup to John. I have a hefty works…
I would love to use this simple setup as well. It's too bad ZFS snapshots cannot be sent and stored encrypted. I would love to use rsync.net but the idea to have my data sitting in someone else's computer in plain text feels wrong. So instead I have to use restic, which re-implements many features of ZFS and this also feels wrong.
Nice article. rsync.net is one part of my personal computing setup that I never even think twice about. It's simple and it works, and that clearly applies to the infrastructure too. I use ZFS locally and it has made managing my own data strangely pleasing, and it's nice to have the same system on my off-site storage too. On the laptop-front, I find myself drifting towards a similar setup to John. I have a hefty works…
I've been using them in a small but important-to-me way continuously since 2008, and I have occasionally forgotten the service needed maintaining at all - at one point I forgot to pay them for an embarrassingly long time after a credit card expired, and they kept my storage going for me until I finally got myself in order. Please don't try that.
(My first contact with them was in 2007, to ask whether they supported pushing directly from git - the answer was no, though they added the feature a few years later - a bit ironically, I've never used it)
I wonder if they have any sales to large enterprises or similar institutions. In my experience, the larger organizations will have a "security" questionnaire required of their vendors, and the person administering it is a droid, incapable of evaluating whether the questions, originally written in the mid-00s and only updated for buzzword compliance since, are applicable to modern security practice today, or to the pa…
I used to (late 2000s) work for a tiny, tiny company that was courting a customer in the mobile banking space. They wanted us to tick boxes. So we bought a box (some sort of Fortinet) that said it was a firewall and IDS. Plugged it in, used it as our new router. "Cost of doing business." Could we have argued with them during the sales process? Only if we wanted to lose the sale. The Fortinet was cheap compared to the…
If you had to do it all over again, what would you do different (if anything)?
E.g. product/positioning/tech-stack/employees/business-decisions