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From: Anthony Sorace <a@9srv.net>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] OT: how do 9fans backup their Mac(book)?
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2011 11:53:49 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <69C5D736-6A3D-4930-9B9C-EB014A8BA4D3@9srv.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7828850E-D4E3-4621-B425-98423B95E1C4@cs.utwente.nl>

> Just curious what 9fans use, for home and/or work, to backup their macs.


I use venti. On servers, I use /n/sources/contrib/anothy/bin/rc/vacbak from cron
and have the system submit the score to my plan9 server. I tried using vbackup
first, but there's a huge volume of stuff on these systems I don't need to have
backups of (and couldn't figure out how to access the results from plan9). vacme
should be suitable for any unix host with p9p installed (with path changes for
your local setup).

At home I have a similar script that's a bit more OS X specific that operates
similarly. I use it periodically, but (as with any on-demand backup system) never
as often as I ought.

When non-plan9 people ask me this question I tell them to get an external
disk and use Time Machine.




  reply	other threads:[~2011-09-30 15:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-30 15:19 Axel Belinfante
2011-09-30 15:53 ` Anthony Sorace [this message]
2011-09-30 17:43   ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
2011-09-30 17:59     ` erik quanstrom
2011-09-30 19:21       ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
2011-09-30 19:42         ` erik quanstrom
2011-09-30 19:45           ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
2011-09-30 19:53             ` erik quanstrom
2011-10-01  8:21       ` Anthony Sorace
2011-10-01 15:14       ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2011-10-01 15:24         ` erik quanstrom
2011-10-01 15:48           ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2011-10-01 16:49             ` Venkatesh Srinivas
2011-10-01 18:21         ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
2011-10-01 18:29           ` Anthony Sorace
2011-10-02 15:26             ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2011-11-03 20:54       ` Michaelian Ennis
     [not found]       ` <CAAQydVjZ42C-GTEFT7E2t=dCQ35fvHzqjSYx9a3o+8v+5D1vfA@mail.gmail.c>
2011-11-03 20:57         ` erik quanstrom
2011-11-01 18:15   ` smiley
2011-11-01 18:57     ` Anthony Sorace
2011-09-30 19:50 ` Latchesar Ionkov
2011-10-01 15:21   ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2011-09-30 20:01 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2011-09-30 21:15 ` Bakul Shah
2011-10-01 17:22 ` John Stalker
2011-10-02  0:35 ` steve jenkin
2011-10-02  1:28   ` erik quanstrom
2011-10-02  2:28     ` steve jenkin
2011-10-02  2:37       ` erik quanstrom
2011-10-02  3:07         ` steve jenkin
2011-10-02 12:38           ` Iruatã Souza
2011-10-03  3:57             ` steve jenkin
2011-10-03  4:02               ` erik quanstrom
2011-10-02 13:30           ` Salman Aljammaz
2011-10-03  3:47             ` steve jenkin

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