From aecb9b88bc7f3903375d6d0fb3fa5cd0b5135f2f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Danny O'Brien Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2024 00:13:36 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] UPDATE(new-years-backups): Tweaks. --- .../new-years-backups.html | 48 +++++++++---------- .../new-years-backups.md | 10 ++-- web/static/index.html | 48 +++++++++---------- 3 files changed, 53 insertions(+), 53 deletions(-) diff --git a/assets/editorial/09final/integrity-new-years-backups/new-years-backups.html b/assets/editorial/09final/integrity-new-years-backups/new-years-backups.html index d2a9cfb..80632fd 100644 --- a/assets/editorial/09final/integrity-new-years-backups/new-years-backups.html +++ b/assets/editorial/09final/integrity-new-years-backups/new-years-backups.html @@ -33,12 +33,12 @@

Almanack

Look Back Up

-

Integrity Mather

+

Integrity Mather

January 1, 2024

he year ends, the North pole tips its deepest bow to the +alt="T" /> he year ends, the North Pole tips its deepest bow to the darkness, and we see even large language models have been taking it easy for the winterScary Devil Monastery2 and if we want to set the new year +role="doc-noteref">2, and if we want to set the new year off to its best start, we should ensure we can pause, tear down, and re-start its march, even at its lowest points.

When examining my backup and restore process, I took the opportunity @@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ would have to be shut down and then restarted anew. Humans need their respite over the holiday break: but should I have granted my server the same indulgence? My plan accepted that boat would be offline for, I hoped, a small slice of time.

-

There are more convoluted ways to ensure that none of my web sites, +

There are more convoluted ways to ensure that none of my websites, file syncing, and miscellaneous tools flickered, even for a moment. I could have temporarily switched my DNS settings to point at the fresh clean tub, for instance, while overwriting @@ -132,19 +132,18 @@ do not lightly emphasize relaxation.

I did occasionally carol a high-pitched note or two of concern.

Two hefty snowbanks stood between me and a perfectly clean restore. Since I first installed it, I have had REAR create ISO files for burning -onto a CD-ROM that I could restore from. “CD’ stand now for”Cretaceous -Disk”: I have not used one for over a decade. Pouring a bootable ISO -into a contemporary USB drive drive turns out to be surprisingly tricky, -and I can never remember how to do it. In the end, I was forced, -humiliatingly, to read REAR’s FAQ, -where they recommended a meatier graphical utility, REAR’s +FAQ, where they recommended a meatier graphical utility, UnetBootin, for achieving this. In the future, I’ve set REAR to output those bootable blobs as RAWDISK, which can be burned (warmed?) onto a USB drive.

REAR’s ecumenical acceptance of external backup programs can -introduce a tremors into its solid scripts. My use of a distribution borg backup package broke the restore. REAR scans @@ -152,7 +151,7 @@ executables that it plans to include on its rescue bootable blob to detect what libraries they require, so that it may copy those over. Sadly, the borg executable can be either a binary executable – for which this suffices – or a Python script, whose demands REAR cannot fathom. -This is undoubtedly a bug a future REAR will fix. In the meantime I +This is undoubtedly a bug a future REAR will fix. In the meantime, I copied over the binary borg into /usr/local/bin instead of the Pythonic borg @@ -168,15 +167,15 @@ like a lucky North Sea seafarer, bobbed back up from an early visit to “Fiddler’s Green”.

-

Testing your recovery plans during your own end-of-year downtime -gives you a moment to look back at the record of what has been, and -prepare for the ups and downs of the coming year. What will be the same? -What will change? What parts of your life can you simply hard link to -the habits of the past? And what will you have to incrementally add and +

Testing your recovery plans during your end-of-year downtime gives +you a moment to look back at the record of what has been, and prepare +for the ups and downs of the coming year. What will be the same? What +will change? What parts of your life can you simply hard link to the +habits of the past? And what will you have to incrementally add and integrate into your ever-evolving life?

-

~Integrity Mather

+

~Integrity Mather

@@ -195,11 +194,12 @@ memo on the phenomenon, “The True Meaning of Wintermute: Northern Hemisphere Seasonability in Tessier-Ashpool AIs”, Automatic Jack, Almnck. 1981.↩︎

-

  • alt.sysadmin.recovery‘s monastic wisdom, is -only dimly remembered now that posting to Usenet and painting your nails -black are no longer professional requirements for ops. The newsgroup -provided several powerful and vile proverbs on the importance of -backups, the foulest of which remain unrecorded in Heather Garvey’s

    alt.sysadmin.recovery’s monastic wisdom is +only dimly remembered, now that posting to Usenet and painting your +nails black are no longer professional requirements for ops. The +newsgroup provided several powerful and vile proverbs on the importance +of backups, the foulest of which remain unrecorded in Heather Garvey’s +extant quotes file. Garvey’s document was, you may note, updated mere hours before Y2K day. This lends some credence to the theory that an eldritch diff --git a/assets/editorial/09final/integrity-new-years-backups/new-years-backups.md b/assets/editorial/09final/integrity-new-years-backups/new-years-backups.md index 9f79b00..0f6d6f9 100644 --- a/assets/editorial/09final/integrity-new-years-backups/new-years-backups.md +++ b/assets/editorial/09final/integrity-new-years-backups/new-years-backups.md @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ --- -author: Integrity Mather +author: "[Integrity Mather](/~integrity/)" title: Look Back Up date: January 1, 2024 --- @@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ While I was never *not* relaxed during my holiday restoration. I did occasionally carol a high-pitched note or two of concern. Two hefty snowbanks stood between me and a perfectly clean restore. Since I -first installed it, I have had REAR create ISO files for burning onto a rescue CD-ROM. "CD" stand now for "Cretaceous Disk": I have not +first installed it, I have had REAR create ISO files for burning onto a rescue CD-ROM. "CD" now stands for "Cretaceous Disk": I have not used one for over a decade. Pouring a bootable ISO into a contemporary USB drive drive turns out to be surprisingly tricky, and I can never remember how to do it. In the end, I was forced, humiliatingly, to read [REAR's @@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ you have to incrementally add and integrate into your ever-evolving life? ::: ::: {.signoff} -[~Integrity Mather](/~integrity/) +~[Integrity Mather](/~integrity/) ::: [^winterbreak]: Are the rumors of an AI Winter true? Do LLMs get lazier during @@ -145,8 +145,8 @@ you have to incrementally add and integrate into your ever-evolving life? phenomenon, "The True Meaning of Wintermute: Northern Hemisphere Seasonability in Tessier-Ashpool AIs", Automatic Jack, Almnck. 1981. -[^scarydevilmonastery]: `alt.sysadmin.recovery`'s monastic wisdom, is only dimly - remembered now that posting to Usenet and painting your nails black are no +[^scarydevilmonastery]: `alt.sysadmin.recovery`\’s monastic wisdom is only dimly + remembered, now that posting to Usenet and painting your nails black are no longer professional requirements for ops. The newsgroup provided several powerful and vile proverbs on the importance of backups, the foulest of which remain unrecorded in Heather Garvey's [extant quotes diff --git a/web/static/index.html b/web/static/index.html index d2a9cfb..80632fd 100644 --- a/web/static/index.html +++ b/web/static/index.html @@ -33,12 +33,12 @@

    Almanack

    Look Back Up

    -

    Integrity Mather

    +

    Integrity Mather

    January 1, 2024

    he year ends, the North pole tips its deepest bow to the +alt="T" /> he year ends, the North Pole tips its deepest bow to the darkness, and we see even large language models have been taking it easy for the winterScary Devil Monastery2 and if we want to set the new year +role="doc-noteref">2, and if we want to set the new year off to its best start, we should ensure we can pause, tear down, and re-start its march, even at its lowest points.

    When examining my backup and restore process, I took the opportunity @@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ would have to be shut down and then restarted anew. Humans need their respite over the holiday break: but should I have granted my server the same indulgence? My plan accepted that boat would be offline for, I hoped, a small slice of time.

    -

    There are more convoluted ways to ensure that none of my web sites, +

    There are more convoluted ways to ensure that none of my websites, file syncing, and miscellaneous tools flickered, even for a moment. I could have temporarily switched my DNS settings to point at the fresh clean tub, for instance, while overwriting @@ -132,19 +132,18 @@ do not lightly emphasize relaxation.

    I did occasionally carol a high-pitched note or two of concern.

    Two hefty snowbanks stood between me and a perfectly clean restore. Since I first installed it, I have had REAR create ISO files for burning -onto a CD-ROM that I could restore from. “CD’ stand now for”Cretaceous -Disk”: I have not used one for over a decade. Pouring a bootable ISO -into a contemporary USB drive drive turns out to be surprisingly tricky, -and I can never remember how to do it. In the end, I was forced, -humiliatingly, to read REAR’s FAQ, -where they recommended a meatier graphical utility, REAR’s +FAQ, where they recommended a meatier graphical utility, UnetBootin, for achieving this. In the future, I’ve set REAR to output those bootable blobs as RAWDISK, which can be burned (warmed?) onto a USB drive.

    REAR’s ecumenical acceptance of external backup programs can -introduce a tremors into its solid scripts. My use of a distribution borg backup package broke the restore. REAR scans @@ -152,7 +151,7 @@ executables that it plans to include on its rescue bootable blob to detect what libraries they require, so that it may copy those over. Sadly, the borg executable can be either a binary executable – for which this suffices – or a Python script, whose demands REAR cannot fathom. -This is undoubtedly a bug a future REAR will fix. In the meantime I +This is undoubtedly a bug a future REAR will fix. In the meantime, I copied over the binary borg into /usr/local/bin instead of the Pythonic borg @@ -168,15 +167,15 @@ like a lucky North Sea seafarer, bobbed back up from an early visit to “Fiddler’s Green”.

    -

    Testing your recovery plans during your own end-of-year downtime -gives you a moment to look back at the record of what has been, and -prepare for the ups and downs of the coming year. What will be the same? -What will change? What parts of your life can you simply hard link to -the habits of the past? And what will you have to incrementally add and +

    Testing your recovery plans during your end-of-year downtime gives +you a moment to look back at the record of what has been, and prepare +for the ups and downs of the coming year. What will be the same? What +will change? What parts of your life can you simply hard link to the +habits of the past? And what will you have to incrementally add and integrate into your ever-evolving life?

    -

    ~Integrity Mather

    +

    ~Integrity Mather

    @@ -195,11 +194,12 @@ memo on the phenomenon, “The True Meaning of Wintermute: Northern Hemisphere Seasonability in Tessier-Ashpool AIs”, Automatic Jack, Almnck. 1981.↩︎

    • -

  • alt.sysadmin.recovery‘s monastic wisdom, is -only dimly remembered now that posting to Usenet and painting your nails -black are no longer professional requirements for ops. The newsgroup -provided several powerful and vile proverbs on the importance of -backups, the foulest of which remain unrecorded in Heather Garvey’s

    alt.sysadmin.recovery’s monastic wisdom is +only dimly remembered, now that posting to Usenet and painting your +nails black are no longer professional requirements for ops. The +newsgroup provided several powerful and vile proverbs on the importance +of backups, the foulest of which remain unrecorded in Heather Garvey’s +extant quotes file. Garvey’s document was, you may note, updated mere hours before Y2K day. This lends some credence to the theory that an eldritch