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I absolutely love this.

UPS Ground packages make it from Las Vegas, NV to Reno, NV by way of Utah. I wonder if anyone ever drives to Vegas using crazy out of the way routes like this because they stick to interstates. Central Nevada’s roads are actually in damn good condition; typically better than the interstates.

I can across this that’s worth sharing regarding LVM snapshot performance pitfalls. The trick is chunk sizes, although ultimately it’s still copy-on-write. http://www.nikhef.nl/~dennisvd/lvmcrap.html I never use LVM snapshots long term anyway; just freeze fs, snapshot, unfreeze fs, do whatever, destroy snapshot. Another trick is to put the snapshot on a physically separate device from the […]

Here’s a lesson to everyone out there: backups mean keeping your data offline, not on another server connected to the internet. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8049780.stm Online backups (such as through rsync) can be good for supplemental backups, but should not be relied on alone if what you’re backing up is really really really really important.