Re: Trying to make texinfo patch

[Thorsten Wilms <t_w_@freenet.de>]

On 06/11/2018 14.16, Laura Lazzati wrote:
> Sure, a friend suggested me having at least my foreign distro with guix 
> on the cloud, for instance in Amazon Web Services - you can suggest 
> another one. Mainly in case my computer crashes and I have to do a fresh 
> install, which happened - I back up my VMs almost daily - if it's 
> hardware starts failing, if it gets stolen, and  I could go on 
> mentioning examples. But I don't know if guix community allows that, so 
> I wanted to ask first.

As long as nobody else has to interact with the service because of your 
use of it, it's entirely up to you. Somewhat similar to how you choose 
your own hardware and internet service provider (I say far from being 
representative of the community, but that seems sure enough).

AWS is rather complex. Several services make things easier if all one is 
looking for is off-site backup, but some would make you use 
Non-Free-Software, the very thing this community can never recommend.

A Free-Software-friendly alternative would be rsync.net. Just a ZFS file 
system that can be accessed via ssh/sftp. They have been around since 
2001 and seem to have a pretty good reputation, but I don't know how 
they compare to other options, cost-wise.

Or, as a _perhaps_ easier and "good enough" solution, consider an 
external hard-drive for regular backups (otherwise detached and stored 
in a safe space). Even better if you have several to cycle through.


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