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Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2016 18:59:15 +0100
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Venti off-site backups
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i append my venti arenas to usb memory sticks - only two so far. i don't sto=
re music or videos on plan9 so compressed de-duplicated data doesn't take up=
 much space.

the only time i had problems was my own fault, over cooling a disk through m=
y own paranoia.

> On 26 Oct 2016, at 18:43, Steven Stallion <sstallion@gmail.com> wrote:
>=20
> It was exactly this thought that led me to moving my venti store to
> running out of plan9port. At home, I have a Linux server that provides
> other services in addition to venti with an obnoxious amount of
> storage. I also have a CrashPlan client running on this machine. The
> result is an always-on backup that's completely hands free.
>=20
> I've been a customer for about 10 years and have had to recover from
> at least one disaster in that time. I've yet to have any problems with
> this setup. I do not miss rotating tapes nor holding my breath any
> time I needed to read an optical/spinning disk backup.
>=20
> HTH,
>=20
> Steve
>=20
> On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 12:25 PM, James A. Robinson
> <jim.robinson@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I see several threads about how people are cloning their Venti
>> servers to remote Venti servers as a means of creating a backup.
>>=20
>> Reading over the man pages, I assume it's also possible to do
>> something like use rdarena to dump an arena out, encrypt it, and
>> put the encrypted arena into a remote service like Amazon S3.
>>=20
>> On my Mac OS X machine I use something called Arq that can
>> store the data in Amazon Glacier, which is an ideal fit for true
>> "disaster scenario" backups (vs. day-to-day backups you might
>> need to access on some regular frequency).
>>=20
>> However, I see some emails warning about using rdarena/wrarena
>> versus simply copying a fossil, so I'm wondering if there are issues
>> I'm not picking up from my reading of the man pages.  I can also
>> see there are various threads complaining about the stability of
>> venti+fossil, but then there are others saying it's stable and works
>> great.
>>=20
>>=20
>> Jim
>>=20