As the next release is slowly cooking, I'd like to mention an artist that I love: @pmjv, or prahou. He's been dedicated to submitting awesome artwork about his universe, here at /c/unix_surrealism, which features many openbsd related comics (puffy being an important protagonist).
I was thus wondering how an artist could pretend at submitting an artwork for the next release ? Is it a shortlist ? Do you simply upload some on the mail list ?
Until the hunt opens, check out the Guest book !
Came back from a trip in Corsica where we climb the most mental slab I've ever put my hands on !
On the 19th of January [...] The admin team was helpless. In the split of a second, the whole CYBFARM network went down. Every subsystem on the planet stopped, and there was nothing they could do against it. The CYBFARM has always been autonomous, and nobody had enough knowledges of its internals to debug or fix anything.
Hopefully, a few minutes later, the first system came back up: the security module. Then other subsystems rebooted one after the others, and the production of goods restarted as expected.
We later found that an overflow occurred in the system clock. This caused a disruption of the internal message bus of the CYBFARM, which entered a locked state, and shut itself down to prevent harming the subsystems. The CYBFARM eventually found and patched the bug automatically, without any external intervention from our part. This was the first time in History that [an autonomous system] healed itself without human action!
This is such a major milestone in History!
Agatha Zieg-Movnieski
Epochalypse incident report
artwork: @pmjv
Case stared at the old laptop.
Is it broken ?
Molly closed the lid, and put it next the others, all destroyed by the CYBFARM security module.
There must be a way to bypass it...
artwork: @pmjv
For config files, I use tarsnap.
Each server has its own private key, and a /etc/tarsnap.list file which list the files/directories to backup on it. Then a cronjob runs every week to run tarsnap on them. It's very simple to backup and restore, as your backups are simply tar archives. The only caveat is that you cannot "browse" them without restoring them somewhere, but for config files it's pretty quick and cheap.
For actual data, I use a combination of rclone and dedup (because I was involved in the project at some point, but it's similar to Borg). I sync it to backblaze because that's the cheapest storage I could find. I use dedup to encrypt the backup before sending it to backblaze though. Restoration is very similar to tarsnap:
dup-unpack -k keyfile snapshot-yyyymmdd | tar -C / -x [files..] .
Most importantly, I keep a note on how to backup/restore: Backup 101
No static IP required ! I use it on my phone over LTE and it works great. Same goes for the NAT, I use it at work to where my laptop sits behind a NAT and I don't have any issue.
There might be some parts that end up not working sometimes, I need to fix that eventually (like process freezing or stuff like that). But the whole adventure is self contained so everything should remain available as long as the site is up !