gramos @gramos@qoto.org
Give me rsync and I will fetch the world.
@lucifargundam That's interesting! How do you plan to store/distribute them?
For some time I've been building this big collection of curated media, mostly books, movies, music, TV shows, and even video games. The idea is to preserve it for as long as I can while it keeps growing, independently of the changing criteria of on-demand providers and without relying on the ephemeral data available on the Internet. Also, my future children will still be able to watch Disney movies as they were before its dialogues got corrected now that everything offends us.
The setup has been changing along the years. Currently it consists on a ZFS pool striping data over two 4TB disks on my main computer, which periodically get replicated to my home server/NAS. This server is also powered by ZFS, only the pool is mirrored. So, physically the data is stored three times (desktop + 2 drives in server), which seems to provide a reasonable guarantee of data survival. Maybe sending it all once a year to Amazon's deep storage would also make sense...
Replication is done via `zfs send`, which incrementally sends changes made between snapshots --like a really smart rsync working at the block level. Today I spent a lot of time looking for a better wi-fi ac adapter that works on Linux, because it's still quite slow transferring data over the wlan.
I guess it would all be simpler with just a properly mirrored media center/NAS, but I find it too convenient for daily uses this way (eg., installing games directly from the local drives). What are your setups to store relatively big amounts of data at home?
@ccc I share it, but only as a reader, and quite a casual one I fear. I think my favourite is The Gods Themselves by Asimov, with The Three Body Problem by Liu Cixin the close second. Both of them blew my mind.
What are your favourite stories? Do you have any published work?
@ccc So it seems we only share the healthy interests 😜 Nice to meet you, see you around!
So... #introductions time!
Spanish dude here, doing things with computers for a living (pressing buttons to obtain the correct pattern of pixels). Linux and OSS lover for about 15 years. Trying to find simplicity in the current madness.
Unfortunately, currently addicted to the chemical reactions produced by high speeds over two wheel devices.
Trying to be less dumb (or at least, keeping dumbness at bay), but damn it's hard 😂
#programming #devops #foss #motorcycles #science #videogames
@Sphinx what keyboard layout are you using? I found out that learning to touch-type with colemak from the start wasn't much harder than fixing my bad habits with qwerty :P
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Give me rsync and I will fetch the world.
