Re: [9fans] sad commentary

["michael block" <michaelmuffin@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 4:45 PM, Eris Discordia
<eris.discordia@gmail.com> wrote:
> --On Monday, June 30, 2008 3:11 PM -0500 michael block
> <michaelmuffin@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 2:12 PM, Eris Discordia
>> <eris.discordia@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Fossil/Venti, however brilliant it may look like to the code junkie, does
>>> not offer anything for me but added complexity.
>>
>> i'm using p9p venti on linux, and it's been a total breeze to
>> configure and administer. the utility of hist and yesterday in my
>> opinion far outweigh the couple megabytes of memory that venti needs
>> to be running all the time (i run it on my desktop machine, not a
>> dedicated file server). i'm curious to know what backup system you're
>> using that is simpler than venti. my interest in plan 9, inferno,
>> octopus, &c stems mainly from my using venti for backups and finding
>> it to be far better that anything unix had to offer. so it you really
>> do have a backup system simpler and more robust than venti, i'd love
>> to try it out
>>
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>> stay beautiful!
>>
> A very effective "backup" method for work on your "desktop:"
>
> 1. Organize your "creative work" when you "create" them, plan beforehand
>
> 2. Copy/synchronize the collection to an external hard disk and/or a
> solid-state storage device which you detach from your "desktop" computer
> after you turn it off, repeat this step depending on how heavily you modify
> the work, automate using cron (or Task Scheduler if you're on Windows)
>
> 3. Copy the entire collection to optical media every once in a while, store
> the copy in a safe place

venti eliminates step one and simplifies step two.

> b. If your data happens to be quite a lot of source code it should be stored
> in a version control system which may provide its own backup measures.

venti /is/ a version control system. it's practicly the same thing as
git, but with sealed arenas

> With (now almost obsolete) RCS backing up
> should be as simple as tarring one or more directories. CVS and/or SVN
> shouldn't pose any harder problems.

backing up with venti is as simple as letting a cron job run

regards,
michael khayyam ravenhurst

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