swift

A month or two ago I finally went through all the old hard drives I’ve accumulated over the past decade. I mounted each of the disks and moved a bunch of files onto my desktop’s drive. There were lots of photos from the drives that I don’t want to lose so I decided to get a little more serious about backups. I decided to give Duply a go. Duply is a wrapper for duplicity, which underneath it all uses the tried and trusted rsync....

Ever have an exchange like this? Q: What happened on this service? A: We can’t keep logs on the server past 2 months. Those logs are gone. Just about every IaaS out there has an object store. Amazon offers S3 and OpenStack providers have Swift. Why not just point logrotate at one of those object stores? That’s just what I’ve done with Swiftrotate. It’s a simple shell script to use with logrotate....