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Comment on Why I hate Sprint, reason #4523 by Totty

Totty — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:45:21 +0000

The Droid is okay, I guess, I’m using the Motorola Milestone which has multitouch but less navigation.

Comment on Why I hate Sprint, reason #4523 by Vicki

Vicki — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:11:18 +0000

Did you know that the Palm Pre Plus is presently available at Verizon? If it’s true that they can get us out of our Sprint contract….

Comment on Why I hate Sprint, reason #4523 by Paul Tomblin

Paul Tomblin — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:33:29 +0000

@James, that guy seems to be comparing Droid to Pre on the basis of how well it works as a Debian box, not on how well it works as a smart phone. Which is kind of important to me, since, you know, that’s why I bought a smart phone. If I wanted a Debian box, I would have bought an EEE PC.

Comment on Why I hate Sprint, reason #4523 by Matt katz

Matt katz — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:26:46 +0000

Cough, droid, cough

Comment on Why I hate Sprint, reason #4523 by James

James — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:24:57 +0000

http://kitenet.net/~joey/blog/entry/pre_to_droid/ suggests you can break phone contracts with no termination fee.

Comment on Today’s rather inconvenient discovery by James

James — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:22:29 +0000

I often use rsync –numeric-ids, although more for the (theoretical? I certainly haven’t tested it) performance gain from not having to look them up in LDAP. Not that it’d help in your case – Debian uids > 100 are created on-demand when you install a package that requires a uid.

Comment on Today’s rather inconvenient discovery by Paul Tomblin

Paul Tomblin — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 01:48:01 +0000

All I know is that the postgresql user is uid 106 on xen1, but uid 114 on my home box. When I rsync from xen1 to home, the backups of postgresql files have uid 114.

ptomblin@xen1:~$ ls -ldn /var/lib/postgres
drwxr-xr-x 2 106 108 4096 2009-01-18 09:21 /var/lib/postgres

homebox:~> ls -ldn /1u_backup/xen1/Sun/var/lib/postgres
drwxr-xr-x 2 114 123 4096 2009-01-18 09:21 /1u_backup/xen1/Sun/var/lib/postgres/

And of course when I restore on the new xen1-test machine, the postgresql user hasn’t been created yet, so rsync doesn’t know how to translate back.

Comment on Today’s rather inconvenient discovery by JK

JK — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:57:01 +0000

I just looked and I do not see that conversion happening between my server and the systems that are rsync mirror backing it up.

wonder what’s happening to you?

Comment on Today’s rather inconvenient discovery by JK

JK — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:54:21 +0000

the more i think about this the more i just can’t believe it’s doing this ‘wrong’

Comment on Today’s rather inconvenient discovery by JK

JK — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:53:55 +0000

uh oh. I’m using rsync from three remote system to do mirror’d backups from my server. each night they each rsync from my server to themselves (using the sh script you once sent me).

now i’m worried that if i need to recover from them it’s going to be a huge pain.

i’ll try checking UIDs across the systems, but, no way they are going to line up right.

wait. it just uses the uid numbers so even if they show as the ‘wrong’ UID on the backup system, if they are moved back to the original system won’t they be owned correctly?