Greg Grossmeier

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Today's confessional:

Due to stupid networking stupidness for the last.... 4? months git-annex hasn't been syncing with my local NAS when on my home network (it would sync when I was at work/coffee shop). It syncs/manages important documents for me and this stressed me out.

Due to stupid non-standard filesystem structure of my local NAS I have only been running Obnam on a very infrequent basis (only when home and plugged in to external harddrive, which I didn't always do). Now with the above networking issue resolved and me figuring out the filesystem weirdness backups are now running every 30 minutes wherever I am.

I feel a lot better, both with those things being fixed and also admitting my transgressions.

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@Greg Grossmeier How do you have your machine negotiate whether to sync to an IP on your LAN vs to your house's IP address? And are using some sort of dynamic DNS service?

Auto-backups run here every night, but sadly only to devices I have hooked up to the LAN. I'd like to improve that.

Christopher Allan Webber at 2015-08-18T22:11:10Z

The backups/syncs always happen via a DDNS address (dhcp.io). It Just Works(TM).

I actually just got a static IP from Sonic.net for free, so it's just convenience now.

Greg Grossmeier at 2015-08-18T22:29:55Z

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To be clear, my DDNS address points to my modem/routers's IP, which is then forwarded on, based on port, to my NAS.

When I'm remote, that works as you expect.

When I'm local, it also "just works", which is great.

Greg Grossmeier at 2015-08-18T22:59:23Z

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