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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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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