S01E15 – Five Sleepy Heads

25.09.08 | 4 Comments

Laura Cowen, Ciemon Dunville, Alan Pope, Dave Walker and Tony Whitmore present the fifteenth episode of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK Local Community Support Team.

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In this episode we have:-

  • A discussion on possible backup solutions after one of the team does something silly and loses a lot of data.
  • New Chunky Sarcastic News
    • Jono announces the new sponsorhip process for the next Ubuntu Developer Summit coming up in December.
    • Jaunty Jackalope is announced as the code name of the next release (9.04) after 8.10 – Intrepid Ibex.
    • New dark theme in Ubuntu 8.10.
    • Dirac reaches version 1.0, and VLC releases 0.9.2 which supports it.
    • Greg Korah-Hartman hits out at Canonical for not submitting more patches to upstream Linux kernel, in his keynote at the Linux Plumbers Conference.
    • IBM releases Lotus Symphony Beta for Ubuntu.
    • Crossover create a WINE based port of Chromium, the web browser Google Chrome is built upon.
  • Time to announce the winner of the Bitfolk VPS competition from last time.
  • A new competition to win a Canonical Store voucher.
  • We have a heated discussion about 5-a-day.
  • Feedback

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  • Adam

    Hello all,

    After listening to the discussion spawned by Ciemon’s rSync woes it struck me that you missed a great backup option that might be suitable for those that want off site backup, but don’t run their own VPS / server boxes and don’t want the hassle of learning rSync.

    My suggestion : Amazon S3 and Jungledisk.

    Pro’s:
    - Data can be fully encrypted (using a private key, known only to you, which is done transparently by Jungledisk)
    - Mounted drive via Fuse for easy drag and drop.
    - Linux / Mac / Windows support for those that want cross platform compatibility.
    - Jungledisk can provide a mounted volume on all three platforms that can just be dragged and dropped to.
    - Offsite backup
    - Jungledisk has a great easy to use GUI which allows a plethora of options including incremental backups / version tracking.
    - Jungledisk also ships with a daemon for those that want easy offsite backup added to a server box (and can just be used as the front end to S3 and the fuse volume can be rSynced to).
    - Not free (Jungle disk is $20 and S3 is $0.15 per Gb) but very very inexpensive, even for large amounts of data (I have around 50Gb up on S3 and the cost is around £5 per month)

    Cons:
    - The first backup can take a while depending on the amount of data you are pushing and your upstream bandwidth (rsync diffs to the fuse volume will improve this).
    - Not free (but inexpensive)
    - Jungledisk is not open source (to my knowledge – although they do provide demo code under the GPL for the S3 interface) for those purists who want to be completely free.

    In my opinion this is a great way of providing a easy configurable, secure, multi platform stand alone backup or a simple bolt on to a server box to add off site backup. My backup solution:
    - Server box running hardy server on RAID 5
    - all my machines rsync to the server box over ssh tunnel.
    - subversion on server box for version control
    - server box runs jungledisk to provide a fuse volume, which is rsynced to once a day + a bash script to provide version history on a per file extension basis.

    Just my two cents (I promise I don’t work for Jungledisk(!), but I have had nothing but a great experience with the software),

    Keep up the good work on the podcast

    Best,

    Adam

    Jungledisk : http://www.jungledisk.com
    S3: http://www.amazon.com/s3

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  • http://www.beamsyncom JordonR

    Jackolantern is the hollowed out pumpkin. A Jackalope is a cross between a Jack Rabbit and Antelope, so as you said a rabbit with horns. Thanks for the podcast, started listening a few episodes ago, really enjoying it.

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