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mercutio: and not recover very quickly. esp. at high rtt.
jlgaddis: yeah, i remember reading something about that once
<br> :)
mercutio: newer linux versions deal better than most things fwiw
<br> as much as it pains me to say it linux is really ahead with tcp/ip stack
jbergstroem: <u>up_the_irons</u>: how is the backup data stored? (for instance, encryption per account?)
<br> I mostly use tarsnap for "online" backups
up_the_irons: <u>jbergstroem</u>: it's stored however you store it (you determine whether you just want to rsync raw data, or run it through some encryption)
<br> toddf has an interesting command line to dump all his stuff encrypted to the backup server
<br> (for privacy purposes i'll let him paste it in the channel if he so chooses)
mike-burns: It's just '| tr a-zA-Z n-za-mN-ZA-M' right?
easymac: heh
<br> Hope you're only backing up ascii files
toddf: hah
<br> sudo dump -0a -f - /u | xz -6 | gpg -e -r me@example.com -z 0 | ssh -i backupkey user@arpnetbackup dd of=$(hostname).u.dmp.xz.gpg bs=1M
<br> I'm guessing randalschwartz is not around or he'd talk about his spiffy zfs send setup whereby he does snapshots of his system at arpnetworks and does some form of snapshots to a filesystem on a remote server in an efficient manner for a backup solution. I can only guess his mechanism could be easily adapted to the backup server up_the_irons is setting up..
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brycec: lol
<br> as it happens, it would be pretty easy to replace the dump... with zfs send
<br> I get something similar to toddf's from using duplicity (it's tar-based rather than dump, and does incremental backups too)
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jlgaddis: yeah, elsewhere i use duplicity to create backups split into 100 mb files that are then gpg encrypted and rsync'd to a remote host
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degyves: I have just bought my first dns name at gandi. Now (if I understand well) I have to provide gandi with the DNS servers to apply to my bought domain so it will point to my www.myserver.com. Is this the 208.79.88.7 ?
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warex: I have just bought my first dns name at gandi. Now (if I understand well) I have to provide gandi with the DNS servers to apply to my bought domain so it will point to my www.myserver.com. Is this the 208.79.88.7 ?
<br> sorry if it appears repeated, I wasn't logged ind correctly
mercutio: i have no idea what ip that is, usually you either get someone else to run dns or you run your own
<br> and if someone else is running dns you have to make sure they have records for your domain name.
bobdole: create
warex: holy dear I don't understand a thing
<br> I have a VPS with openbsd
<br> this openbsd server has an ipn address
bobdole: gandi proobably has dns
warex: with a nginx web server
bobdole: just create an a record to point to ip address of server
staticsafe: what are you trying to do?
warex: I'm trying to write www.mydomain.com and see my VPS's webserver
<br> write www.mydomain.com in a browser
bobdole: go into DNS settings and create an "A record" to point to the VPS ip address
<br> DNS settings on gandi site
<br> then ping the domain from outside of the VPS to make sure the domain name is being resolved to the IP
<br> or nslookup or dig
warex: gonna try it!
brycec: If gandi.net doesn't offer DNS hosting (but really, what registrar doesn't??) you can use a free one like dns.he.net (<3 them) or you could host it yourself (which, if you're unfamiliar with DNS, you probably shouldn't be doing.)
up_the_irons: has anyone with a beta account tried duplicity on the backup server?
<br> just wondering if it works...
hazardous: <u>brycec</u>: dns.he.net doesn't permit wildcards in records :(
<br> also gandi does offer really nice dns hosting, but it's incredibly newbie-unfriendly
<br> it has you make a fork of your zonefile or something, then edit it and merge it or save it back in or something, then swap domains to the new zonefile
DaCa: <u>up_the_irons</u>: there should be no reason why it shouldn't because it works even in a completely empty chroot dir with internal-sftp
up_the_irons: <u>DaCa</u>: oh wow, nice
<br> <u>hazardous</u>: yeah, i noticed that too. their dns manager is really hard to use.
<br> <u>hazardous</u>: every edit makes a new zone file and you have to make it active before changes take effect; really strange
hazardous: haha
<br> btw - up_the_irons is there anywhere i can look at bandwidth used or graphs out of curiosity
up_the_irons: <u>hazardous</u>: click on "Data Transfer" in the Portal
hazardous: ooh pretty
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DaCa: <u>up_the_irons</u>: I can't find that option
up_the_irons: <u>DaCa</u>: what option?
DaCa: the Data Transfer link in the portal?
up_the_irons: <u>DaCa</u>: email support@ and it'll be added
phlux: I didn't know we could do that
<br> I set up my own :P
<br> http://bryant.ewnix.net/vnstat
up_the_irons: <u>phlux</u>: i like the nice text-based printout :)
phlux: Thanks :D There are graphs on the "hours, days and months" links
<br> But it still prints out a nice table
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brycec: <u>up_the_irons</u>: Yeah I've duplicity'd up to it (it's just ssh/scp... didn't bother trying sftp)
up_the_irons: <u>phlux</u>: cool
<br> <u>brycec</u>: oh nice!
brycec: (It would also do webdav and ftp_
DaCa: <u>brycec</u>: if you choose scp it will do parts in scp and parts in sftp, but you make it use sftp only which is a big advantage if you want to combine it with openssh's chrootdir and internal-sftp, you don't have to populate the chroot at all
<br> s/make/can &/
brycec: kewl
-: brycec uses S3 for 99% of his duplicity backups
up_the_irons: <u>DaCa</u>: ah, an empty chroot is pretty cool
DaCa: I made some deals with some friends colocating at different places, we each provide backupspace for each other using ssh chrootdir/internal-sftp/duplicity, ultimate deal
brycec: That's cool
hazardous: anyone here tried glacier?
<br> its apparently 0,01/gb
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up_the_irons: <u>DaCa</u>: hah nice
<br> <u>hazardous</u>: is that amazon's thing?
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brycec: <u>hazardous</u>: I've got some data in glacier
<br> Never retrieved it though
<br> (Used Amazon's S3 lifecycle stuff to migrate an S3 bucket of a decomissioned server into Glacier)
hazardous: yeah it's amazon's thing up_the_irons
<br> apparently for long term storage
up_the_irons: ah ok
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brycec: <u>up_the_irons</u>: Basically, it's tape library storage
up_the_irons: <u>brycec</u>: yeah i gathered that
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up_the_irons: <u>nixbag</u>: i believe thursday will be a data center day; i'm trying to get them to issue you a perm badge
milki: oo, badge
nixbag: sounds wonderful. probably easier than getting a temp badge :)
<br> <u>up_the_irons</u>: switched to weechat. it chose the color pink for you.
up_the_irons: lol
brycec: It's okay up_the_irons, irssi/nickcolor.pl gave you blue.
up_the_irons: phew
nixbag: i miss irssi already. thinking of going back to it.
brycec: lol
nixbag: weechat looks like a text based circus
brycec: I liked weechat. Just haven't had the time to get it all configgered up
nixbag: <u>up_the_irons</u>: i should be available all day thursday.
up_the_irons: <u>nixbag</u>: ok, i'll let u know if it comes to fruition
<br> weechat *is* a text based circuis, that is why it rules
<br> and vertical split
<br> and the fact that my cursor is directly under the window upon which the text will appear
<br> had some embarassing "wrong window" lines go out in irssi
nixbag: i'm giving weechat more time before i make any final judgements :)
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