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Re: Trying to make texinfo patch
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Thorsten Wilms |
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Re: Trying to make texinfo patch |
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Tue, 6 Nov 2018 18:53:59 +0100 |
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On 06/11/2018 14.16, Laura Lazzati wrote:
Sure, a friend suggested me having at least my foreign distro with guix
on the cloud, for instance in Amazon Web Services - you can suggest
another one. Mainly in case my computer crashes and I have to do a fresh
install, which happened - I back up my VMs almost daily - if it's
hardware starts failing, if it gets stolen, and I could go on
mentioning examples. But I don't know if guix community allows that, so
I wanted to ask first.
As long as nobody else has to interact with the service because of your
use of it, it's entirely up to you. Somewhat similar to how you choose
your own hardware and internet service provider (I say far from being
representative of the community, but that seems sure enough).
AWS is rather complex. Several services make things easier if all one is
looking for is off-site backup, but some would make you use
Non-Free-Software, the very thing this community can never recommend.
A Free-Software-friendly alternative would be rsync.net. Just a ZFS file
system that can be accessed via ssh/sftp. They have been around since
2001 and seem to have a pretty good reputation, but I don't know how
they compare to other options, cost-wise.
Or, as a _perhaps_ easier and "good enough" solution, consider an
external hard-drive for regular backups (otherwise detached and stored
in a safe space). Even better if you have several to cycle through.
--
Thorsten Wilms
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