Hippo, birdie, two ewes...

...to lapislaz!! Have a good one!!

Guess I needed the sleep

Got to sleep about 11:00, got up around 7am. I seem to remember waking up once, somewhere around 1:30am. The only lingering problem seems to be the nasal congestion. Don't know what to do about that, except keep taking decongestants in my evening pill salad, and worry about what happens if I get a cold.

Backing up

So I finally decided to get serious about off-site backups: i.e., stop planning and start doing. This was assisted by the fact that work finally got around to installing a second T1 line yesterday -- my upstream bandwidth at home is barely sufficient to keep up with incremental backups; it would be hopeless for uploading the roughly 80GB already on the fileserver and needing to be backed up. (There's a lot that doesn't need to be backed up, fortunately.)

Sometime last Friday I dragged home a bare 500GB drive that was sitting around at work (originally intended for an outside-the-firewall server that never quite got off the ground), stuck it into a USB/eSATA enclosure, and loaded it up. Yesterday I mounted it on my desktop machine, and started uploading to my server at Dreamhost last night. Got about 250MB/s, which works out to about 890MB/h.

I'm doing it in pieces, of course: the web master directories last night, then my working directories today -- which amount to about 10GB, excluding the Audacity projects. Those are another 60GB -- I'll do those a little bit at a time, at night, with bandwidth limiting.

At that point, the only thing left will be the /home partition -- I can't do that until I have my planned encryption scheme in place. (Although in the interim I can fake it with an encrypted tar file.)

( more details, for the techies )

Hopefully I'll have everything uploaded by the end of the year, which would be nice.