Oh, they'll filter alright. Just the other way around.
Actually, a better solution: Just upload EVERYTHING to/b/. If it gets reposted by anonymous, automatically add it to a filter list. That way you don't have to pay people to do the work. This reverse-filter idea is a good one!
Okay, well, as a data protection engineer at work and a geek at home, here's my strategy (I do BOTH) 1) Near line/onsite backups: I do a multiple-times daily sync to an external USB drive for critical data. In this case, this includes things like my MP3 library, video garbage that I've collected. Basically anything that I can't replace _really_ easily.
2) Offline/Offsite backups: I use Mozy (as some other users have mentioned). $5 a month, large storage capacity. It's an always incremental backup, automatically runs when the computer is idle. It takes quite a while for the initial backup, but who cares. I don't personally allow my MP3s or some of my video junk to backup to Mozy, but the stuff I seriously care about is there.
For the stuff I'm really paranoid about, I try to make sure I've got copies dumped to my iPhone, which is always in my pocket, so it's not going to be at my home if the place burns down.
I was the hard-core perl guy for our shop, but more recently we've switched towards Windows Powershell for the tasks I was using perl for. (Mostly AD manipulation)
Using Quest software's extensions for AD, there isn't much I can't do against AD in a lot less code than I would have done in perl.
My initial looks at Powershell/Monad left me less than interested, but since spending a little time with it, I'm realizing that it's got some wicked tricks to it.
Their spiel here (I've visited their booth at SNW as well) is that it is primarily used in part of a virtual tape solution. Their software sits on a Linux box (which they recommend a quad-Opteron with lots of RAM) emulates a tape library, then passes data to your backend SAN storage.
The compression they use for compression/data de-duplication seems to be in a similar vein to stuff used by Data Domain and other WAFS type solutions, just on a higher-bandwidth model.
If I recall correctly, Diligent is made up of some spinoff guys from EMC. (correct me if I'm wrong)
I manage a general use fileserver where we don't impose any real limits on the users. We had 75GB on the server 4 years ago when I built it... and that was lots of room.
Today, the same file server is SAN connected and has over 2.2TB of usable space..... and it's all either crap that people don't need any more or it's just people dumping huge chunks of SQL databases into Access to make their own personal reports.
Personally, I've got an IBM Netfinity 5000 (Dual P2-400) with an external EXP300 drawer I got used for almost nothin'.
I've got (5) 18GB drives and (13) 36GB drives for a good chunk of storage, driven by two ServeRAID 3L cards. Got a DLT drive hooked up to it to get extra backups of the really important stuff.
The electric bill isn't very nice, but it's reliable.:)
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Not my area really, but I know I've got a buddy working on the Lazarus project:
I just beat the hell out of my keyboards... seems to wear down the plastic guides around the shift keys and they don't go down straight all the time.
I've never had a non-model M keyboard that has lasted more than a year or two from the abuse I dish out. People who sit near me at work don't particularly care for the sound, either:)
Ah.. my great model M. I use one at home and one at work.. Lessee.. 1984 is the date on mine:) I'm probably going to replace them soon with new ones from www.pckeyboard.com - they use the same old design as the Model M. I've found after years of use that I've worn down the left-shift key on both of my Model M's, and they tend to stick.
I find it funny tho.. my 19-year old keyboard on my (relatively) new Dual Athlon PC...
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Amen, brother. With economics like they are, I'm sitting at work as sole administrator of 60 Win2k servers and 8 Linux servers. Trying to keep them all up to date is a nightmare...
Though, I must say. On those Linux servers, I am able to keep up my patches and the like much easier than on the Windows boxes... The reason? NO REBOOT! (unless I've got a kernel to replace) NO DOWNTIME TO SCHEDULE! Hooray!
I've got Windows webservers that sometimes go weeks without updates because I can't convince the business folks to let me schedule an outage of the production systems. Thank goodness they just started building a redundant server farm so I can knock servers down one at a time for updates.
It doesn't help any that I'm actually a Windows Systems Administrator...:)
Actually, I've used Linux on my home PCs for several years now.. running Gentoo now, but started on Slack in '94.
Unfortunately, the nature of my position at work requires me to use a Windows PC to manage all those darned Windows server. I've replaced several servers with Linux, but I suspect until a majority of them are replaced with Linux boxen, I'll still be using Windows on my PC. *sigh*
It's kind of ironic... being the lead NT/2K server admin at our company, and being wholeheartedly sold on using Linux instead. Just gotta convince the PHB's:)
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Oh, they'll filter alright. Just the other way around.
Actually, a better solution: Just upload EVERYTHING to /b/. If it gets reposted by anonymous, automatically add it to a filter list. That way you don't have to pay people to do the work. This reverse-filter idea is a good one!
Okay, well, as a data protection engineer at work and a geek at home, here's my strategy (I do BOTH)
1) Near line/onsite backups: I do a multiple-times daily sync to an external USB drive for critical data. In this case, this includes things like my MP3 library, video garbage that I've collected. Basically anything that I can't replace _really_ easily.
2) Offline/Offsite backups: I use Mozy (as some other users have mentioned). $5 a month, large storage capacity. It's an always incremental backup, automatically runs when the computer is idle. It takes quite a while for the initial backup, but who cares. I don't personally allow my MP3s or some of my video junk to backup to Mozy, but the stuff I seriously care about is there.
For the stuff I'm really paranoid about, I try to make sure I've got copies dumped to my iPhone, which is always in my pocket, so it's not going to be at my home if the place burns down.
I was the hard-core perl guy for our shop, but more recently we've switched towards Windows Powershell for the tasks I was using perl for. (Mostly AD manipulation)
Using Quest software's extensions for AD, there isn't much I can't do against AD in a lot less code than I would have done in perl.
My initial looks at Powershell/Monad left me less than interested, but since spending a little time with it, I'm realizing that it's got some wicked tricks to it.
Their spiel here (I've visited their booth at SNW as well) is that it is primarily used in part of a virtual tape solution. Their software sits on a Linux box (which they recommend a quad-Opteron with lots of RAM) emulates a tape library, then passes data to your backend SAN storage.
The compression they use for compression/data de-duplication seems to be in a similar vein to stuff used by Data Domain and other WAFS type solutions, just on a higher-bandwidth model.
If I recall correctly, Diligent is made up of some spinoff guys from EMC. (correct me if I'm wrong)
All those 1MB documents add up.
.... and it's all either crap that people don't need any more or it's just people dumping huge chunks of SQL databases into Access to make their own personal reports.
I manage a general use fileserver where we don't impose any real limits on the users. We had 75GB on the server 4 years ago when I built it... and that was lots of room.
Today, the same file server is SAN connected and has over 2.2TB of usable space.
*sigh*
Personally, I've got an IBM Netfinity 5000 (Dual P2-400) with an external EXP300 drawer I got used for almost nothin'.
:)
I've got (5) 18GB drives and (13) 36GB drives for a good chunk of storage, driven by two ServeRAID 3L cards. Got a DLT drive hooked up to it to get extra backups of the really important stuff.
The electric bill isn't very nice, but it's reliable.
Not my area really, but I know I've got a buddy working on the Lazarus project:
http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org
Might be of some interest to some Delhpi folks.
I just beat the hell out of my keyboards... seems to wear down the plastic guides around the shift keys and they don't go down straight all the time.
:)
I've never had a non-model M keyboard that has lasted more than a year or two from the abuse I dish out. People who sit near me at work don't particularly care for the sound, either
Ah.. my great model M. I use one at home and one at work.. Lessee.. 1984 is the date on mine :) I'm probably going to replace them soon with new ones from www.pckeyboard.com - they use the same old design as the Model M. I've found after years of use that I've worn down the left-shift key on both of my Model M's, and they tend to stick.
I find it funny tho.. my 19-year old keyboard on my (relatively) new Dual Athlon PC...
Amen, brother. With economics like they are, I'm sitting at work as sole administrator of 60 Win2k servers and 8 Linux servers. Trying to keep them all up to date is a nightmare...
Though, I must say. On those Linux servers, I am able to keep up my patches and the like much easier than on the Windows boxes... The reason? NO REBOOT! (unless I've got a kernel to replace) NO DOWNTIME TO SCHEDULE! Hooray!
I've got Windows webservers that sometimes go weeks without updates because I can't convince the business folks to let me schedule an outage of the production systems. Thank goodness they just started building a redundant server farm so I can knock servers down one at a time for updates.
It doesn't help any that I'm actually a Windows Systems Administrator... :)
:)
Actually, I've used Linux on my home PCs for several years now.. running Gentoo now, but started on Slack in '94.
Unfortunately, the nature of my position at work requires me to use a Windows PC to manage all those darned Windows server. I've replaced several servers with Linux, but I suspect until a majority of them are replaced with Linux boxen, I'll still be using Windows on my PC. *sigh*
It's kind of ironic... being the lead NT/2K server admin at our company, and being wholeheartedly sold on using Linux instead. Just gotta convince the PHB's
And now that it's at 50k, I'm really starting to wonder....
What's the difference between a 'Service Pack' and an 'Update'?
;)
Oh... about 100MB