Questions tagged [sneakernet]
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Have you ever used Sneakernet?
Wikipedia says:
Sneakernet is a tongue-in-cheek term used to describe the transfer of electronic information, especially computer files, by physically carrying removable media such as magnetic tape, floppy disks, compact discs, USB flash drives, or…
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Does a Sneakernet make sense as a backup strategy?
Like many of you I am "the guy who takes care of backup" in the company. Luckily we are a software shop and most of the mission critical data are kept in a bunch of mercurial repositories. This makes it extremely easy for backup - all you need a…
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Getting dependencies for a python package for installation to offline host
I need to install some python packages to an offline host. Normally, when you do a python setup.py install on one of these packages, if it can't find the dependencies needed it will try to download them from pypi. My offline host can't get to pypi,…
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Caching proxy with a cache I can prime
Say I have an origin site and structure of media like so:
https://watch.example.com/2017-04-06/training.mp4, which is a static 5GB that will never change.
Now at a remote location with very poor internet, I want to provide a caching proxy which…
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