Comments for randys.org

Comment on How-To: Automated Backups to Amazon’s S3 with Duplicity by gwern

gwern — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:28:55 +0000

I don't think there's any real need to have a full shell script. This is a one-liner: you can concatenate multiple shell variable definitions, and they will scope only over the one line.

Here's an example of what I mean:

[07:27 PM] 332Mb$ BAR="bar" [07:27 PM] 332Mb$ FOO="foo" ls .... [07:27 PM] 332Mb$ echo $BAR bar [07:27 PM] 332Mb$ echo $FOO

[07:27 PM] 332Mb$

The $FOO is gone, but $BAR remains. (And nothing stops one from going 'FOO="foo" BAR="bar"... ls')

Comment on Holiday Beer Report: White Christmas, Old Jubilation, Jolly Pumpkin & More by randy

randy — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 19:51:49 +0000

Happy holidays to you too… asshole.

Comment on Holiday Beer Report: White Christmas, Old Jubilation, Jolly Pumpkin & More by L. Royal

L. Royal — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 19:20:43 +0000

You should try enjoying beers without writing comments. Your spelling and grammar leave something to be desired…. Try to be sober if you plan to do anymore reviews. Seems to me that you don’t really like much of anything anyway so why write about it.

Comment on New post by brian

brian — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:00:42 +0000

This comment is for people who complain that I haven’t commented on anything since May.

Comment on New post by super tonio

super tonio — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:04:45 +0000

I can't stop reading this post, really, really wonderful stuff. Keep up the good work Randy!

Yours,

-super tonio

Comment on How-To: Automated Backups to Amazon’s S3 with Duplicity by Lee

Lee — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:02:04 +0000

If you’re having trouble with entropy gathering, running ls -lR / in the background (another login, another terminal window, or whatever) will help.

Comment on Holiday Beer Report: Affligem Noel by John Rogel

John Rogel — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 00:41:53 +0000

I have a 12-15 year old bottle of this stuff. Came with a gold banding – looks like chicken wire – around the bottle. Is this ale OK to drink or is the bottle the only thing worth saving. I asked the abbey but never got a reply. Can anyone offer advice? Thanks, John

Comment on How-To: Automated Backups to Amazon’s S3 with Duplicity by Callum

Callum — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 20:11:27 +0000

As per my earlier comment, you can do away with the need for a passphrase altogether. I'd suggest easier and more secure than storing the passphrase anywhere.

Comment on How-To: Automated Backups to Amazon’s S3 with Duplicity by randy

randy — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 03:32:50 +0000

Woodside, I realize that now and I agree that backups of a small time blog like this don't really need to be ultra strict. This was simply my method (at the time) to automated backups. On a VPS with no other users, storing your passphrase in a human readable text file is less of an issue (as long as your root password is relatively difficult crack) than someone in a multi-user environment. If security was my ultimate goal, I probably wouldn't trust my data with a third-party service and use tape backups and store them in an offsite location.

Comment on How-To: Automated Backups to Amazon’s S3 with Duplicity by S Woodside

S Woodside — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 03:22:45 +0000

Putting your GPG password into a C executable isn’t really going to help since it will be stored in there as text … basically I would say unless you are storing state secrets don’t worry about it, and if you are, enter your password by hand every time you back up.