I've been using it for a few years, and it's an awesome solution if you have slow or flaky network connections. The project is great, however, it takes some time to find the best configuration. I'm not sure about the latest version, but I didn’t have a great experience with versions above 0.60 and still stick to 0.59. I also recommend saving your working configuration once you have it, as a few changes can mess up the system—probably due to a bug.
this is the the result of a nonexistent European energy policy, let's switch of coal and nuclear and not work on accelerating the approving process of renewable power plants what should go wrong right? the entire EU is completely dependent on gas which we import from countries like Russia, Algeria. Currently due to the skyrocketing gas prices, production from coal is at a all time high, but hey the green transition is working right??! companies are closing because they can't handle the energy costs, but Germany says everything is fine...
Don't forget successful more then two decades long effort to torpedo the pipeline from Norway to Poland while forcing through Nordstream that goes around.
The EU have a consistent policy of leaving Putin an option to put pressure or just straight up capture some land to the East of German border by making sure the gas won't stop flowing in case that happens.
TWRP and TitaniumBackup (phone needs to be rooted). SMBSync2 (open-source android app, one of the few/only(?) that supports samba 2/3) to samba share (TrueNAS).
jails are great, coincidentally I started using them too with Freenas (now Truenas). The only big disadvantage is that the FreeBSD ports are less uptodate than docker (Linux).
Most open source applications are released for Linux and have to be adapted to FreeBSD. So FreeBSD maintainers have to keep up with the ports. Sometimes port maintainers drop-off leaving stale ports until they break.
It is not at all uncommon to be running applications that are several versions behind.
For popular packages this is not that common. For less popular packages, yes it can happen, because maintainers are almost completely volunteers. Some years ago I created a port, then at some point stopped being able to find the time to maintain it. Eventually someone offered to take over, and I happily obliged.
The ports Makefile framework is incredibly sophisticated, so one can find lots of examples and be quickly able create and test ports very easily, especially for packages written in C, C++, Go, Java, Perl, Python, Ruby, etc. Poudriere, which is the definitive bulk package builder used by FreeBSD pkg itself, is especially useful here. Ports that a have a billion vendored libraries are a pain. Ports are not allowed to download from the internet at build time, so all the vendor dependencies need to be known beforehand and be marshaled to download at the "fetch" phase accordingly. But eventually it all boils down to a very terse and declarative Makefile. What used to be a bigger pain, was the way to update ports in the ports tree, which used to require someone with access to the ports tree taking your new port and updating it. But recent news indicate that FreeBSD is moving to git and towards a model where port owners can each update their own directly, which will be huge. My personal opinion is that this will lower the ports maintenance bar significantly.
Also, for administrators, switching /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf from "quarterly" to "latest" pkg train of your version number (e.g. FreeBSD 12.x) will get you the latest versions of binary packages, as soon as their respective port is released into the ports tree. Quarterly is also pretty good, but you get only security updates and package versions tend to stay stable and change every quarter. I've administered systems switched to "latest" and seldom had any serious problems.
Yep, making sure you're on latest package branch helps for sure. When it comes to popular packages on the latest branch, I always feel like I've had far more trouble getting up to date versions on ubuntu than I do on FreeBSD.
I had some issues running latest on a desktop machine back when it was default. Switching to quarterly made updates smooth sailing; the only issues I remember after that were from a big X upgrade.
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happy customer of backblaze. Love how transparent they are with everything (especially the Harddisk statistics) and how the CEO takes time to respond to a lot questions only confirms how down to earth they are.
For sure it is/should not be high priority, but releasing such an app in 2020 for sure does not reflect the great skills of the backblaze team. At least show me some basic stats, account settings and invoices. You can only download files from your buckets and that's it.. really?
I sync all my device files to a local Freenas server which runs duplicacy in a jail and sync's it every night to backblaze B2. I looked at duplicity, restic, attic, borg and in the end settled for duplicacy. Pay attention to the duplicacy license, for somebody it could be a problem.
Great story, I don't want to know the number of companies that run business critical stuff on excel vba macros + access DB some guy wrote 15 years ago.
