At CES 2012 Synology just announced a new release of their device firmware DSM (DiskStation Manager) in version 4.0.
Besides other improvements one really got my attention: Synology Cloud Service.
While I'm also a big fan of ZFS, btrfs, FreeNAS, OpenMediaVault (OMV) I really like Synology's device lineup with their easy-to-use software. Nothing really to setup, just unpack, configure a bit and you're ready to go.
Synology wants to release a 4.0 beta pretty soon, so I'll follow this one pretty closely ... DS712+ here I come ...
Mittwoch, 11. Januar 2012
Thoughts: The dilemma of device-bound data
Recently the power supply of my main PC (that is, a regular PC with an old dual-core Intel) just died without a sign of trouble beforehand.
Since I still don't have a NAS and my data on this PC is spread over several hard disks inside I didn't have access to this data while my PC was out of order.
Especially using (and looking up) some E-Mails I really needed really was annoying since I had to use my external backup drive (1TB USB 3.0) on an laptop to get to those files. Being cautious while loading the backed up Thunderbird profile on that latop from my backup drive is necessary because I still do have some good old POP3-style accounts. Now, downloading data from these accounts while running a (temporary) backup profile would be very bad because all this data then would be lost or at least difficult to merge with my "real" profile later.
As more and more people move their data into clouds, on private servers or NASes here's my personal list of items I really should think about becoming an ubiquity:
- Old-style POP3 accounts; only use fat clients (e.g. Thunderbird) for IMAP
- Let retrieve IMAP accounts those old POP3 accounts (hosted by third parties)
- Personal data like pictures, documents, encrypted stuff
- Business data
As I already use a Dropbox alternative for some daily-use and small data I really would like to have a self-hosted cloud solution where I'm finally not bound to any device anymore. Even these two days where I wasn't able to use my main PC I recognized pretty fast - regardless of the backup I had - how much (important) data still is bound to it.
What do you think? Suggestions? How to you manage your daily data-life with multiple devices?
Since I still don't have a NAS and my data on this PC is spread over several hard disks inside I didn't have access to this data while my PC was out of order.
Especially using (and looking up) some E-Mails I really needed really was annoying since I had to use my external backup drive (1TB USB 3.0) on an laptop to get to those files. Being cautious while loading the backed up Thunderbird profile on that latop from my backup drive is necessary because I still do have some good old POP3-style accounts. Now, downloading data from these accounts while running a (temporary) backup profile would be very bad because all this data then would be lost or at least difficult to merge with my "real" profile later.
As more and more people move their data into clouds, on private servers or NASes here's my personal list of items I really should think about becoming an ubiquity:
- Old-style POP3 accounts; only use fat clients (e.g. Thunderbird) for IMAP
- Let retrieve IMAP accounts those old POP3 accounts (hosted by third parties)
- Personal data like pictures, documents, encrypted stuff
- Business data
As I already use a Dropbox alternative for some daily-use and small data I really would like to have a self-hosted cloud solution where I'm finally not bound to any device anymore. Even these two days where I wasn't able to use my main PC I recognized pretty fast - regardless of the backup I had - how much (important) data still is bound to it.
What do you think? Suggestions? How to you manage your daily data-life with multiple devices?
Mittwoch, 4. Januar 2012
More backup: BUP
A pretty new project is BUP which is using GIT as a base and has some very promising features, as announced at the recent C8C3 in Berlin, Germany.
But be warned: It's far from being complete or even stable (even if they already do testcases and so on), definitly worth a look (later):
https://github.com/apenwarr/bup
But be warned: It's far from being complete or even stable (even if they already do testcases and so on), definitly worth a look (later):
https://github.com/apenwarr/bup
Dienstag, 3. Januar 2012
Samstag, 31. Dezember 2011
Knockout.js
As I was reading up more of Ember.js (formerly Amber.js / SproutCore 2.0) I stumbled over Knoutout.js, yet another Javascript framework on the client side.
It also looks pretty nice in terms of writing speed and re-usage of certain modules.
Also, they've done a fantastic job for learning Knockout.js over at http://learn.knockoutjs.com/
By the way: Happy new year everyone! See you in 2012.
It also looks pretty nice in terms of writing speed and re-usage of certain modules.
Also, they've done a fantastic job for learning Knockout.js over at http://learn.knockoutjs.com/
By the way: Happy new year everyone! See you in 2012.
Donnerstag, 29. Dezember 2011
More backup suggestions
Recently I've read a nice article over at Jon Dowland's blog regarding backup tools on POSIX machines. There he recommends obnam, another backup tool which sounds pretty interesting to me.
As I was a pretty satisfied user of Torsten Rupp's BAR (e.g. see here and here) I've switched over to rdiff-backup for the sake of easier restoring and accessing my backed up files.
rdiff-backup works pretty well for me, but I'll definitively give obnam a try soon ...especially de-duplication sounds awesome for non-ZFS users. Stay tuned.
Oh, and if you're interested in what's going on in your /etc (and also want a backup of it): Use etckeeper
As I was a pretty satisfied user of Torsten Rupp's BAR (e.g. see here and here) I've switched over to rdiff-backup for the sake of easier restoring and accessing my backed up files.
rdiff-backup works pretty well for me, but I'll definitively give obnam a try soon ...especially de-duplication sounds awesome for non-ZFS users. Stay tuned.
Oh, and if you're interested in what's going on in your /etc (and also want a backup of it): Use etckeeper
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