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System Administration: Week 10: Backups, Part I

In this video, we begin our discussion of backups by covering some core concepts and terminology, looking at full vs. incremental vs. differential backups and the difference between long-term storage and disaster recovery to recovery of files due to more localized data loss.

https://youtu.be/IRu04Mc7VlA

#sysadmin #devops #sre

goekesmi 2d ago

GrrlScientist ⧖ Ⓥ 🇺🇦3d ago

Support these data centers

#DataCenters #Schools #Libraries #Bookstores

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goekesmi Mar 30

@Ashedryden I mean, given I keep some of those sites online professionally, yes. Every day.

goekesmi Mar 30

Ashe Dryden 🙆🏼‍♀️🐈🐈‍⬛Mar 30

Do you ever end up on a website that hasn't been updated in years and its design aesthetic takes you back to a time and place on the internet?

goekesmi Mar 30

Matthias Ott Mar 30

Quick reminder, especially if you’re a freelancer or developer using Free/Pro/Pro+ plans for client work: Opt out of GitHub using your data for AI model training before April 24 (seriously, wtf that this isn’t opt-in!).
https://github.com/settings/copilot/features#copilot-telemetry-policy

goekesmi Mar 13

Jason Scott Mar 13

New article out! Super in-depth, very furious manifesto. I get batted around. Join in the fun! Looks like it was a lot of work.

https://newdesigncongress.org/en/pub/who-will-remember-us-when-the-servers-go-dark/

goekesmi Mar 5

Mark Gritter Mar 4

RE: https://mas.to/@gabrielesvelto/116171755938331430

It is amazing that computers work at all.

One of my favorite research papers along these lines is "When the CRC and TCP checksum disagree": https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/347059.347561

By looking at cases where the Ethernet CRC indicated no error, but the TCP checksum was invalid, the authors found a whole host of bugs in networking hardware, such as faulty DMA engines and buggy router memory.

Hardware data corruption is everywhere!

(There are no doubt newer studies, I'm just personally acquainted with one of the authors.)

goekesmi Feb 22

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Jason Scott Feb 22

When I see people going "the archive is slow, wah" they just don't realize there's this tsunami of bad actors, either spammers, DDOSers testing their equipment, and fraudsters that want to just grind the whole thing into the ground to make a potential quick buck. I'm flghting them and others are too. But the result is I'll spend a full day and have little to show for it.

goekesmi Feb 21

tef Feb 21

if anything, i've found that the quality of his posts have gone down over time, i call this "doctorowification"

goekesmi Feb 19

Weird Units Feb 19

Sony Trinitron CRT TVs per digital signature