Entries with tag "dsl"

In the wake of the recent loss-of-BinRock scare, I've decided to make my backup scheme more robust. I went out and bought a 200 GB hard drive and installed it in my Linux server at home to house the backups, and I'm using a clever script called rsnapshot to do the majority of the work.

Whereas before I was only replicating the database, I'm now going to be backing up pretty much everything important on the server, including everyone's home directories, photos, etc.; about 35 GB worth of data all told. However, because of the clever protocols like rsync (on which rsnapshot is based), I should have no problem maintaining these backups with my little home DSL connection.

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well, that's good. today my internet went down, as it does from time to time. it is usually back up within a few minutes, so i waited. after an hour it wasn't back, so i called innova.net to ask how long till it came back up. they said actually, they were discontinuing their DSL service. they had asked bellsouth for 5 days so they could notify their customers, but apparently bellsouth went ahead and cut them off now. so what he recommended was i switch providers. i explained that i'm leaving in a few weeks and it wasn't worth signing up for a new provider right now, and he said all i could do was use their dialup service. so now i'm stuck on dialup, and it disconnects every few minutes so i've been trying to send a 1mb email to a friend for a while now and it keeps getting cut off before it's done sending. this is fun.

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