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This week Steve goes through his data migration story at his house. What things should you consider before moving large datasets around, and what things need to be taken into account for a solid backup plan?

-- During The Show -- 01:52 Home Automation Leak Detection - Jeremy

• You can't really
• Using cameras

08:06 mmWave sensor update/comparison

• Seedstudio mmWave Sensor
• Space for other sensors
• Way better than a PIR sensor
• Aqara Water Sensor

11:19 Point of sale gear? - Charlie

• Odoo
• Open Source POS
• UniCenta
• Squirrel Systems

13:28 Succession Planning - David

• Password dump
• Bitwarden
• Network diagram with pictures
• Good documentation
• Techy friends
• Dave Ramsey - Legacy box
• Legacy Folder
• Data, external drives

23:23 Odoo for Accounting and Bookkeeping - Tiny

• Looks like a solid platform
• Expensive
• Self hosting not really an option
• Accounting solid but very basic
  • no payroll
• Not fully open source

25:51 Backups? - Mike

• Copying the file MIGHT be ok
  • if file system has bit rot protection
  • works till it doesn't
• Better to use database tools
• External drives
• 3.5 StarTech Enclosure
• Pelican 1120 Case
• 2.5 Cable Matters Enclosure
• Steve's M.2 Enclosure
• ASUS ROG M.2 Enclosure

37:57 News Wire

• OpenZFS 2.2.1 - Phoronix

• Weston 13.0 - Freedesktop.org

• OpenSSL 3.2 - GitHub

• PipeWire 1.0 - Phoronix

• LibreOffice 7.6.3 On Android - Document Foundation

• Wine 8.21 - Gaming On Linux

• Studio One 6.5 - Presonus Software

• PeerTube v6 - Frama Blog

• Proxmox 8.1 - Proxmox

• OpenMandriva - LX 5.0 - Beta News

• Nitrix 3.2.0 - NXOS.org

• Ultra Marine Linux 39 - Fyra Labs

• Linux 6.6 tagged LTS - Security Boulevard

• Linux Runs 20% Faster on Ryzen 7995WX - Toms Hardware

• MicroCloud - Infoq

• GIMP Team Targeting May 2024 - Librearts.org

• X11 Being Removed from RHEL 10 - Red Hat

• Fuctional Source License - The Register

• Kinsing Malware - Hack Read

• SysJoker Malware - Cyber Security News

• Looney Tunables - Security Affairs

• Open Source Tesla - The Verge

• AMD GPU & RISC-V - Toms Hardware

• Real AI - Mark Tech Post

• Synthetic Machine Learning Data - SD Times

• Uploading Minds - Crypto Slate

• AI Linux Optimization - Toms Hardware

41:11 Nativefier

• Makes native Linux app out of web pages
• Saves credentials and session
• Mind Drip One
• Nativefier GUI GitHub

45:44 Data Migration

• Good to rotate drives
• Disk burn in (bunch of rsync)
• Rsync 26 hours
• rsync will preserve hard links with the right flags
• software raid is more portable
• nuke & pave
• 2 vdevs, 3 drives per vdev
  • can only loose one drive
• ZFS send/receive is much faster and better
• IDrive
• Kopia
• Spider Oak One
• Plan for your target
• rsync commands

a: Archive mode, which preserves permissions, ownership, and timestamps. v: Verbose mode, which prints out detailed information about the transfer. H: Preserve hard links. P: Preserve permissions.

• Dumping a database is intensive

• Proxmox

  • gets in the way
  • doesn't gain Steve anything
  • Special snowflake
  • Custom UI
  • Good for multi node
  • No updates

• KVM works the same everywhere

• Cockpit

  • GUI
  • Will eventually replace virtmanager

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