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February 03, 2006
movein.sh ?
My brother Matt and I were thinking about online backups. If you're like me, your ISP provides more space than you need to backup everything in your family's $HOMEs. The biggest pain in reinstalling is transferring files and setting up the $HOMEs again including configuration of preferences, etc. At home I don't want to run a file server for /home in the basement all the time.
So Matt's suggesting a movein.sh script that gets everything and sets it up for you, and you don't have to do that manually every time you bring a new machine online. Hmm. I wonder about authentification as well. What if I had LDAP-based naming on my machines, but left the server running at my ISP? It would be the opposite of high end.
In any case if a web-based service took the user auth and user data problems away from a particular home system, that might have a tendency to encourage people to change systems more often. I'd also be one step closer to work from anywhere.
Posted by Mark at February 3, 2006 08:30 AM
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While we're on a subject related to backup and restore, Tim Bray has a nice writeup with some good advice: http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2006/01/31/Data-Protection
I'm currently too cheap to follow the advice to the extent of buying external hard drives regularly, but it's something to think about.
Posted by: Mark at February 3, 2006 04:48 PM
I cannot take credit for "movein.sh" something just like that or very similarly named was in one of those O'Reilly "Hack" books or on a web site somewhere.
Posted by: Matt at February 5, 2006 12:38 AM
Okay, http://hacks.oreilly.com/pub/h/72 is the one. Thanks.
Posted by: Mark at February 5, 2006 03:37 PM