https://poolp.org/tags/backups/Recent content in Backups on poolp.orgHugo -- gohugo.ioen-USCopyright © Gilles Chehade - poolp.orgTue, 11 Jun 2024 21:00:00 +0100https://poolp.org/posts/2024-06-11/out-of-my-cave-lots-of-updates/Tue, 11 Jun 2024 21:00:00 +0100https://poolp.org/posts/2024-06-11/out-of-my-cave-lots-of-updates/TL;DR: I have been silent for a while due to personal matters but I did a ton of stuff on OpenSMTPD, plakar and a handful of other projects.https://poolp.org/posts/2023-11-02/plakar-an-avalanche-of-changes/Thu, 02 Nov 2023 10:13:00 +0200https://poolp.org/posts/2023-11-02/plakar-an-avalanche-of-changes/TL;DR: Significant refactoring to improve its performance, implemented read and write semaphores to throttle chunkers and reduce memory usage, introduced a repository index and packfiles to decrease the number of I/O operations, also intrioduced a new HTTP storage backend.https://poolp.org/posts/2023-10-07/plakar-a-ton-of-changes/Sat, 07 Oct 2023 09:29:00 +0200https://poolp.org/posts/2023-10-07/plakar-a-ton-of-changes/TL;DR: TL;DR: a lot of work in plakar, but also on CDC and index optimization. Optimized go-fastcdc # I ran into a benchmark which included my implementation of the FastCDC algorithm, and it made me realise that it was not on par with alternative implementations:https://poolp.org/posts/2023-08-06/plakar-vfs-importer-interface/Sun, 06 Aug 2023 00:44:00 +0200https://poolp.org/posts/2023-08-06/plakar-vfs-importer-interface/TL;DR: I reworked the virtual filesystem layer in plakar, making it possible to write custom importers of data: use plakar to backup an s3 bucket, for instance.https://poolp.org/posts/2023-07-23/plakar-snapshot-forking-and-tagging/Sun, 23 Jul 2023 10:24:00 +0200https://poolp.org/posts/2023-07-23/plakar-snapshot-forking-and-tagging/TL;DR: plakar gained two minor features, snapshots fork-ing and snapshots tagging, which makes it possible to unlock several major new features in a relatively short future.https://poolp.org/posts/2022-10-18/october-2022-blog-comments-a-bit-of-plakar-and-the-streamchain-project/Tue, 18 Oct 2022 11:11:00 +0200https://poolp.org/posts/2022-10-18/october-2022-blog-comments-a-bit-of-plakar-and-the-streamchain-project/TL;DR: added comments support to the blog, did some music and hypnosis projects, fixed a few bugs in plakar and began a new toy project.https://poolp.org/posts/2022-05-22/may-2022-yet-again-tons-of-plakar-stuff/Sun, 22 May 2022 13:27:00 +0200https://poolp.org/posts/2022-05-22/may-2022-yet-again-tons-of-plakar-stuff/TL;DR: tons of plakar work, most notably on indexes, performances, clone & sync and fuse. Code-unrelated work # I’ll start with code unrelated work !https://poolp.org/posts/2022-04-24/april-2022-plakar.io-plakar-refactor-and-ssh-support/Sun, 24 Apr 2022 17:24:00 +0200https://poolp.org/posts/2022-04-24/april-2022-plakar.io-plakar-refactor-and-ssh-support/TL;DR: I refactored internal structures to split metadata from the index, implemented an stdio server and finally added SSH support. The plakar.io website # A project needs a website so… I published the plakar.https://poolp.org/posts/2022-04-01/april-2022-plakar-keys-and-ui-stuff/Fri, 01 Apr 2022 01:52:00 +0200https://poolp.org/posts/2022-04-01/april-2022-plakar-keys-and-ui-stuff/TL;DR: I did key and UI stuff, mostly search related. There’s going to be plenty of images in this post. Reworked plakar keys # I won’t expand much on that as I’m not done yet, but I spent a couple days reworking the way plakar handles keys for encrypted repositories.https://poolp.org/posts/2022-03-06/march-2022-plakar-clone-and-plakar-sync/Sun, 06 Mar 2022 00:51:00 +0200https://poolp.org/posts/2022-03-06/march-2022-plakar-clone-and-plakar-sync/TL;DR: implemented cloning and synchronization between plakar repositories Slacked a bit # Shortly after I published my yearly retrospective, I was hit with two highly annoying personal issues that kept me very busy these last two months.https://poolp.org/posts/2021-12-13/december-2021-a-bit-of-plakar-a-bit-of-go-fastcdc-and-some-useless-stuff/Mon, 13 Dec 2021 07:40:00 +0200https://poolp.org/posts/2021-12-13/december-2021-a-bit-of-plakar-a-bit-of-go-fastcdc-and-some-useless-stuff/TL;DR: I worked on plakar, go-fastcdc a FastCDC implementation for plakar, and some useless stuff. This activity report will be short # This activity report will be short because I spent the last ten days caring for my kid who got sick… before catching his stomach bug myself and spending the last few days in a somewhat familiar and unpleasant hell, unable to do everything I intended for this month.https://poolp.org/posts/2021-10-26/november-2021-a-bit-of-go-ipcmsg-a-bit-of-go-privsep-and-a-ton-of-plakar/Tue, 26 Oct 2021 07:40:00 +0200https://poolp.org/posts/2021-10-26/november-2021-a-bit-of-go-ipcmsg-a-bit-of-go-privsep-and-a-ton-of-plakar/TL;DR: I still have a discord, feel free to join. I worked on go-ipcmsg to make it nicer, go-privsep to make it more useable, and A LOT on plakar to make it plakar.https://poolp.org/posts/2021-10-26/october-2021-mostly-plakar/Tue, 26 Oct 2021 07:40:00 +0200https://poolp.org/posts/2021-10-26/october-2021-mostly-plakar/TL;DR: I have a discord now, feel free to join. I refactored plakar, implemented a local cache, improved parallelism, modified the push strategy, played with fuse and networking.https://poolp.org/posts/2021-04-30/april-2021-opensmtpd-plakar-ipcmsg-privsep-and-a-small-hypnosis-talk/Fri, 30 Apr 2021 21:12:00 +0200https://poolp.org/posts/2021-04-30/april-2021-opensmtpd-plakar-ipcmsg-privsep-and-a-small-hypnosis-talk/TL;DR: I worked on OpenSMTPD-portable, did a lot of plakar, a lot of Go and gave a technical talk on hypnosis. Let’s start with some LoFi # Relax.https://poolp.org/posts/2021-03-26/march-2021-backups-with-plakar/Fri, 26 Mar 2021 16:52:00 +0200https://poolp.org/posts/2021-03-26/march-2021-backups-with-plakar/TL;DR: I wrote a backup utility called plakar. Let’s start with some LoFi # Relax. I have a youtube channel (subscribe ! now !)https://poolp.org/posts/2019-08-25/august-2019-report-fion-plakar-and-opensmtpd/Sun, 25 Aug 2019 04:00:00 +0000https://poolp.org/posts/2019-08-25/august-2019-report-fion-plakar-and-opensmtpd/TL;DR: - small inprovements to the fion window manager - plakar is a backup utility I wrote a long time ago that I will share - tons of opensmtpd stuff, mostly filters and issues handling Shout outs to my patrons !