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Linux Backup Solutions

I've been looking for the best Linux backup system, and also reading lots of HN comments.

Instead of putting pros and cons of every backup system I'll just list some deal-breakers which would disqualify them.

Also I would like that you, the HN community, would add more deal breakers for these or other backup systems if you know some more and at the same time, if you have data to disprove some of the deal-breakers listed here (benchmarks, info about something being true for older releases but is fixed on newer releases), please share it so that I can edit this list accordingly.

Amanda (comments by sammcj)

It has a lot of management overhead and that's a problem if you don't have time for a full time backup administrator.

Linux Backup Solutions

I've been looking for the best Linux backup system, and also reading lots of HN comments.

Instead of putting pros and cons of every backup system I'll just list some deal-breakers which would disqualify them.

Also I would like that you, the HN community, would add more deal breakers for these or other backup systems if you know some more and at the same time, if you have data to disprove some of the deal-breakers listed here (benchmarks, info about something being true for older releases but is fixed on newer releases), please share it so that I can edit this list accordingly.

Bacula (from the Why section on Burp)

Too complex to configure
Stores catalog separate from backups, need to backup catalog

###The ROSSConf project, or: helping Open Source help Open Source

Last April Saturday ROSSConf Vienna took place. Sixty registered participants, some loose canons, 5 projects, 6 maintainers, 8-ish team members, 1 baby all in one coworking space. Here's what happened.

*credit: Manuel Gruber*

####In the beginning October last year, at arrrrcamp, I came up with the concept for ROSSConf. Having attended 1001 tech conferences (I haven't kept count) I concluded that I'm always missing something. I found myself listening to a talk and wishing I could contribute to the project discussed but the internet connection wasn't sufficient for cloning the repo, nor was there time to hack on the project as the next talk was about to start. And, I figured, I'd need some time to get into the project and the contributing etiquette before being able to contribute.

These instructions will explain how to install tensorflow on mac with cuda enabled GPU suport. I assume you know what tensorflow is and why you would want to have a deep learning framework running on your computer.

Prerequisites

Make sure to update your homebrew formulas

brew update

What I Wish I'd Known About Equity Before Joining A Unicorn

Disclaimer: This piece is written anonymously. The names of a few particular companies are mentioned, but as common examples only.

This is a short write-up on things that I wish I'd known and considered before joining a private company (aka startup, aka unicorn in some cases). I'm not trying to make the case that you should never join a private company, but the power imbalance between founder and employee is extreme, and that potential candidates would

The Story of NPM and Yarn

In the beginning there was NPM, and for a time it was good. Packages went forth and multiplied. The New Gods proclaimed the great demon Dependency Management had been slain. But The Old Gods knew better, for they had seen much and knew that the demon can never be killed, only held at bay.

The Old Gods were ignored. In the folly of a young age grew an abundance of packages and with them grew the scourge of dependency. In the depths beneath the earth, in a place beyond memory, the great demon stirred.

The first sign something was wrong was non-deterministic package version mismatches. “This is fine!” The New Gods declared. “A temporary setback, nothing more! We can fix it.” And so they introduced shrinkwrap, a lamp to combat the growing darkness.

But it proved to be too little, too late, and dusk continued to fall. The New Gods suffered their first major defeat at the [Battle of Left-pad](https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/03/23/npm_left_

	# Typical setup to include TensorFlow.
	import tensorflow as tf

	# Make a queue of file names including all the JPEG images files in the relative
	# image directory.
	filename_queue = tf.train.string_input_producer(
	tf.train.match_filenames_once("./images/*.jpg"))

	# Read an entire image file which is required since they're JPEGs, if the images
	# are too large they could be split in advance to smaller files or use the Fixed

	Ansible playbook to setup HTTPS using Let's encrypt on nginx.

	The Ansible playbook installs everything needed to serve static files from a nginx server over HTTPS.
	The server pass A rating on [SSL Labs](https://www.ssllabs.com/).

	To use:
	1. Install [Ansible](https://www.ansible.com/)
	2. Setup an Ubuntu 16.04 server accessible over ssh
	3. Create `/etc/ansible/hosts` according to template below and change example.com to your domain
	4. Copy the rest of the files to an empty directory (`playbook.yml` in the root of that folder and the rest in the `templates` subfolder)