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Restic deserves a shoutout. Only recently I have discovered this outstanding backup solution. It's simplicity is ingenious. It allowed my to replace my 10 year old Bacula solution in just 15 minutes! Now I have a reliable automate backup with no clicky UI, no central database that uses minimal resources.
The coolest feature is its git-like storage. Files are only stored once. There is no need to distinguish between full, incremental or differential backups. Every backup is a full backup, but stores files efficiently only once. That makes backup management a dream.
Restic's key features that make it so cool:
The coolest feature is its git-like storage. Files are only stored once. There is no need to distinguish between full, incremental or differential backups. Every backup is a full backup, but stores files efficiently only once. That makes backup management a dream.
Restic's key features that make it so cool:
- No database, no central infrastructure: the backup is the database.
- No configuration necessary: just decide where to put the backup and choose a passphrase. Everything else is optional and honestly not really necessary.
- High throughput by using parallel compression/encryption and no database limits what you can do: I was genuinely blown away by the speed.
- Deduplication and efficient storage: git-like storage, no differential backups necessary
- No connectivtiy woes: since there is no central component
- Works on local disk as well as almost any cloud storage protocol: unlike Bacula which is tape library centric and drive backups are a side feature
- Small single binary (go)
- Highly scriptable: the binary has a couple of subcommands to manage everything. Takes arguments or env vars. Provies exit codes.
- No UI: the single binary is the cli and the backup tool itself
- Encryption by default: you can't disable it, but if you don't like it simply select a trival password that you put next to your backup.
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Planet in Peril
For those of you, interested in global topics, there is a very good book published by Le Monde Diplomatique. It contains about 300 large maps on a great variety of global topics. I found it extremely interesting, though somtimes a little depressing.
English: Planet in Peril
French: L'Atlas environment
German: Atlas der Globalisierung
English: Planet in Peril
French: L'Atlas environment
German: Atlas der Globalisierung
Not only as a stockholder of the publisher of Le Monde Diplomatique in its German edition, I highly support this suggestion.
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Gusgus live
Last night Gusgus from Iceland played in the Q Club (while queueing I tough that it's a rather silly name for a club by the way). It was a special night because it was the 5th anniversary of the Q. I went there with Ivan.
Gusgus started with some really strange songs and they had a hard time getting people started. But eventually they remebered their best songs and that was when I went totally crazy :-) Check out their website; they have all their songs as MP3s! David on their latest album Attention is my favourite.
I had seen them before in Volkshaus when they were the supporting act of Moloko a couple of years ago. And in that concert I actually liked them more than Moloko. I think it's the finest house music you can get these days.
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Gusgus started with some really strange songs and they had a hard time getting people started. But eventually they remebered their best songs and that was when I went totally crazy :-) Check out their website; they have all their songs as MP3s! David on their latest album Attention is my favourite.
I had seen them before in Volkshaus when they were the supporting act of Moloko a couple of years ago. And in that concert I actually liked them more than Moloko. I think it's the finest house music you can get these days.