NYC LOCAL: Early Saturday 28 July 2012 FreeBSD Ports and Docs Bugfest

[secr...@lxny.org]

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Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2012 12:07:40 -0400
To: anno...@lists.nycbug.org
From: NYC*BUG Announcements <anno...@lists.nycbug.org>
Subject: [announce] FreeBSD Ports & Docs Bugfest tomorrow
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Two soon-to-happen events:

FreeBSD Bugfest tomorrow, and the August 1 Meeting

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2012-07-28 @ 14:00 - Location: suspenders

FreeBSD Bugathon, none

NYC*BSD is sponsoring a FreeBSD Bugathon along with the Bay Area FreeBSD
User Group in California. It's a great opportunity to mingle and
coordinate with FreeBSD developers locally and beyond.

http://wiki.freebsd.org/Bugathons/2012July

A basic outline includes:

o Docs updating and validation
a. What do the other BSD's say?
b. Is it it accurate?
c. Improvements
d. New docs / examples

o Porting help for creating new ports

o Ports bug busting
a. Confirming PR's
b. Fixes to open PR's
c. Testing various config options (i.e. can I set var=yes in make.conf
and get useful results?)

We'll also be on efnet #nycbug for coordinating beyond NYC.

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2012-08-01 @ 18:45 - Location: suspenders

NAS: From Scratch, Henry Mendez

This talk will be on how to build and configure a Network Attached
Storage device. The first half will cover hardware purchasing tips,
steps to build the computer yourself, and common problems that you might
encounter along the way. The second half will cover how to setup your
disks (using RAID, ZFS), and configure the required network services to
get you up and running quickly.

About the speaker:

Henry Mendez is a Systems Administrator for Tablet, and an avid NYC*BUG
attendee. He has been building computers since he was 15.
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Distributed poC TINC:

Jay Sulzberger <secr...@lxny.org>
Corresponding Secretary LXNY
LXNY is New York's Free Computing Organization.
http://www.lxny.org

[wem...@gmail.com]

Hello,

I am looking for a way to keep my important stuff safe. Currently I am using rsnapshot to backup my entire system on an external drive connected to my router. I have installed OpenWRT on my router and I keep my config files in git repository set on my router. But I would like to keep some of the important things such as photos not only at home but also on a server in a different location in case of fire, burglary etc. It would be good if I could upload all files at once using the script and if there were no restrictions on files size. I would still encrypt everything with GPG but I would like the service to be free software for security. I could pay a reasonable amount of money for the service for it to be reliable. I don't need any fancy website interface or standalone client. I don't need a synchronization service, I would send files on my own when I would need it. I guess that buying some space on the FTP server is my only choice here. What would you recommend?

[Ineiev]

On 08/08/2012 09:42 PM, wem...@gmail.com wrote:
> I would
> like to keep some of the important things such as photos not only at
> home but also on a server in a different location in case of fire,
> burglary etc.

...

> I would still encrypt everything with GPG

...
> What would you recommend?

Also, where and how do I keep my private PGP key?

[Werner Koch]

On Thu, 9 Aug 2012 06:07, ine...@gnu.org said:

> Also, where and how do I keep my private PGP key?

Print it.

http://www.jabberwocky.com/software/paperkey/


Shalom-Salam,

Werner

--
Die Gedanken sind frei. Ausnahmen regelt ein Bundesgesetz.

[wem...@gmail.com]

So what do you recommend guys, are you using something like this, how do you organize your backup? I know there are not too many possibilities here if we are looking for free software solution, but if so it's even more important to know what are the viable options.

[Alfred M. Szmidt]

I backup stuff to USB sticks; much safer than some online system.

[Ivan Shmakov]

Arguably, SATA hard drives (perhaps of some cheaper variety, as
in "Green") may constitute a better solution, especially if
there's much more than a dozen of GiB's to copy.

Once the data is copied, a SATA drive (even if an internal one)
could be detached from the host and moved to safety.

Alternatively, if there's more than one location to manage (with
the possibility of a secure network file transfer), the data
from the location A may be backed up at B and vice versa, etc.

OTOH, for a few GiB's, I'd use DVD+R's. Should be safer against
electromagnetic impulses (not to mention humidity, etc.), too,
if one happens to be a survivalist.

--
FSF associate member #7257 http://sf-day.org/

[wem...@gmail.com]

I am not sure if USB sticks alone are better than online systems. I would like to be sure that I wouldn't lose my data if I lost my pendrive or if something bad happened to my house. This is why I am looking for some place to keep my data in a different geographical location, preferably in a different city to be more secure. External hard drives are good but not reliable enough in my opinion. External drives accompanied by securely encrypted online backup would be OK though but only one of these two is not enough.

[Alfred M. Szmidt]

I am not sure if USB sticks alone are better than online systems. I
would like to be sure that I wouldn't lose my data if I lost my
pendrive or if something bad happened to my house. This is why I am
looking for some place to keep my data in a different geographical
location, preferably in a different city to be more
secure. External hard drives are good but not reliable enough in my
opinion. External drives accompanied by securely encrypted online
backup would be OK though but only one of these two is not enough.

If something would happen to your house, you have far more important
things to worry about than a few random bits.

[Keith Thompson]

Yes, almost certainly other things would be more important than
your data. That doesn't imply that your data is unimportant and
not worth protecting.

That's the whole point of off-site backups.

And things could happen to damage all your in-house data (say, a power
surge while your backup drive happens to be plugged in to your computer)
without destroying the house.

--
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) ks...@mib.org <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
Will write code for food.
"We must do something. This is something. Therefore, we must do this."
-- Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn, "Yes Minister"

[wem...@gmail.com]

On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 06:13:00PM -0700, Keith Thompson wrote:
> a...@gnu.org (Alfred M. Szmidt) writes:
> > I am not sure if USB sticks alone are better than online systems. I
> > would like to be sure that I wouldn't lose my data if I lost my
> > pendrive or if something bad happened to my house. This is why I am
> > looking for some place to keep my data in a different geographical
> > location, preferably in a different city to be more
> > secure. External hard drives are good but not reliable enough in my
> > opinion. External drives accompanied by securely encrypted online
> > backup would be OK though but only one of these two is not enough.
> >
> > If something would happen to your house, you have far more important
> > things to worry about than a few random bits.

Or I would say "yet another thing to worry about"

> Yes, almost certainly other things would be more important than
> your data. That doesn't imply that your data is unimportant and
> not worth protecting.
>
> That's the whole point of off-site backups.
>
> And things could happen to damage all your in-house data (say, a power
> surge while your backup drive happens to be plugged in to your computer)
> without destroying the house.
>

This is also a good example and it represents my point of view. What free software based solution would you recommend for such backup? Is FTP in practice the only option?

[wem...@gmail.com]

I've come across that https://www.tarsnap.com/index.html. Client source code is available and the price is reasonable. Has anyone used this service?