Most of us don’t have native IPv6 Internet connections at home. Fortunately, it’s easy (and free) to get connected to the IPv6 Internet. Here’s how to get your FreeBSD box connected.
Mar 012010
I spent some time thinking about backup strategy, and I decided for my purposes, I’d like to handle the staging process (getting all the files put together), and I’d like the backup solution itself to simply upload the files – but since I want to do nightly backups, I’d like the backup solution to have incremental capabilities.
I narrowed it down to two possible solutions – Tarsnap and Duplicity. Both support incremental backups, both are command-line capable. I decided to use Duplicity because it uploads directly to whichever back-end service you use – be it Amazon S3 or an SFTP server . Tarsnap uses S3, but that’s your only option, and they do some processing for you, and because of that, it costs more.
Now, on to the details.