Re: Proposed presentation for Feb 11 - Deduplicating backup & binary version control
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On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 08:54:37PM -0700, Art Barnes wrote: > Hi, > > Pleased to meet everyone. Nice to meet you too Art. And thanks for offering to do (any) presentation. At least among those present last night, I think there's consensus that virtual glug meetings would benefit from a bit more structure. > Given that most folks have a sysadmin-ish background I was thinking to > do a presentation split between deduplicating backup software and > version control for (large) binary files. Let me know if this works > for folks. > > Deduplicating backup software includes the likes of Borg, Restic and > the horribly named Duplicacy. This is the current state-of-the-art in > backup and makes efficient use of disk space while giving more > flexibility in pruning old backups compared to backup software based > on differential/incremental snapshots. I was thinking to give an > overview of how Borg/Restic/Duplicacy stack against each other, the > concepts behind how they work, and an example of using one of them. This sounds great to me Art, I imagine a lot of us have problem sets like a mixed use home nas that has both "important documents" and a media library. > My current personal project https://github.com/akbarnes/dupver is a > deduplicating version control system that I started at the beginning > of the pandemic. I deal a lot with binary files that have a lot of > structure like Sqlite databases and was lacking for a good way to keep > track of versions. I’m thinking to give an overview of the design > behind it along with a usage example. Warning! It’s an ambitious > project at alpha-level quality. > > Finally – throwing out an idea for a future presentation if someone > wants to take it on. Gopher has been making a comeback along with its > younger brother Gemini. I’m old enough to miss the old days of forum > culture and quirky hobbyist websites. This along with the tildeverse > scratches my nostalgia itch pretty hard. Maybe someone is familiar > with setting up a Gemini server? Oh good instinct to seed future talks. I've no history with gopher myself but anything that smells that much like unix grey-beards has to be worth our time! -- sam _______________________________________________ nmglug mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nmglug.org/listinfo.cgi/nmglug-nmglug.org