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Site Housekeeping and Backup Day
News has been very slow over the weekend, but that's just partly expected. Many people are away on holiday/s. Backups have therefore begun at our end. We want to have better offsite backups (PCLinuxOS learned this after a fire) and for that we'll require encryption.
It's a calm Monday morning and I've been doing maintenance of housekeeping on the PCs. It seems like 3 weeks from now my main laptop will exceed 700 days of uptime.
$ uptime 04:33:46 up 678 days, 10:18, 42 users, load average: 0.47, 0.17, 0.12
Yesterday afternoon we also did maintenance on this server, including the IRC daemon and the kernel, followed by a reboot. Downtime for the site and the Gemini capsule was no longer than 1-2 minutes. Almost nobody felt or noticed it, except IRC users. █