Comments on: Friday Grab Bag From Frigid Denver

By: James Governor

James Governor — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 17:49:30 +0000

pretty sure Jerome’s problem was that a pointer to the directory holding the playlist changed, the playlists are still there, but the pointer is corrupted, rather than the other way around.

By: Donnie Berkholz

Donnie Berkholz — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 21:16:21 +0000

Should be easy enough to run Windows on the Mac Mini, I know a bunch of people with triple-boot setups thanks to BootCamp or whatever it’s called.

By: tecosystems » The RedMonk IT Report: S3/ZRM for Backup

tecosystems » The RedMonk IT Report: S3/ZRM for Backup — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 21:12:38 +0000

[...] As reported previously, after considering several options, I’ve settled on Amazon’s S3 service as the offsite backup platform for RedMonk’s production server, hicks. The new setup will replace our current duct tape and bailing wire solution, that basically rsyncs directories down to my local server apone every few days. Instead, we’re now performing nightly backups that would hopefully allow us to recreate our production web server implementation in the event of a machine failure, corruption, etc. Here’s what we’re doing, and trust me - if I can do this - anyone can. [...]

By: sogrady

sogrady — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 19:05:24 +0000

Ric: np, and let me know how you make out w/ s3drive.

on the geotagging front, not as yet. have yet to start, in fact. but a lot of my photos are grouped, so perhaps it won’t be that difficult.

rick: i’ll be posting more on this shortly, but i’ve just gotten this to work on our server - and it seem works like a champ.

as for JungleDisk, you can actually just turn the encryption off, and you should be able to read/write that information from non-JD clients just fine.

Jungle Dave: thanks very much for stopping by to clarify. will undoubtedly have more questions once i get going, but that’s good to know.

By: Jungle Dave

Jungle Dave — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 16:00:16 +0000

When using Jungle Disk for backup, if your upload is cut off it will automatically retry several times immediately, and if it continues to fail it will try again at the next backup interval.
Currently it needs to retry from the start of the file, however we expect to add upload resume once that capability is available from Amazon. Good luck!

By: rick gregory

rick gregory — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 07:18:49 +0000

Stephen,

I’m actually just starting to setup a very similar backup system. Ive decided to centralize everything on one Linux box running Ubuntu then backup from that using s3sync. This article seems pretty helpful, though I am still working on the local backup of my workstations so I haven’t yet run through these steps.

http://blog.eberly.org/2006/10/09/how-automate-your-backup-to-amazon-s3-using-s3sync/

Jungledisk is nice, but I believe you have to use it to read and write to buckets that it creates on S3 since it encrypts data by default. Take this with a grain of salt though since it’s been awhile since I looked at it.

By: Ric

Ric — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 04:51:08 +0000

I’m using s3drive (http://www.suchwerk.net/sodcms_S3Drive_at_work.htm)
- looks similar to Jungledisk - but thanks for that link anyway - I’ve downloaded jets3t cockpit.

Have you found any simple way of geotagging your Flickr photos - I did a few, but it was going to take a long time to do all of them, and my enthusiasm faded!