#285

Personally speaking, 2020 will be the year of Linux on my laptop. Is there a crowd favorite tool for automatic backups? The more automatic and low-friction the better, I think. I use Backblaze on my Mac, and I see that Duplicity can be configured to back up to their B2 storage system, so there’s some appeal there, but I’m curious what other people are using that they like.

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#286

i use Timeshift, which is so transparent once configured, that once forgot i had it set up to automatically backup /home on a certain usb drive, that i hadn’t plugged in for a while and was wondering what process was hogging my CPU and forbbiding me to eject said drive.

For “daily backups” I tend to prefer scripts with a few rsync lines, consciously backing up work in progress directories as a ritual at the end of a session.

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#287

I have a daily Timeshift for the /home folder, and use LuckyBackup for audio, documents, etc etc.

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#288

I second the rsync vote–for me this is usually textbooks, pictures, and other non-code-related items. Since most of what I work on are text files, everything generally ends up in a git repository at the end of a session.
My configuration files for window managers and services are also in git, so in the event of a stolen computer or other catastrophe I can rebuild my system from scratch quickly.

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#289

I have a slightly elaborate setup:

  1. A central always-on server which is the center of a star-configuration with unison. It’s super smooth, instant sync from all nodes, kind of like dropbox, but free, and data are always in my on hands.
  2. Every night a rasberry pi located in a friends closet pulls (with rsync) everything from the central server.
  3. I recently replaced my desktop with a pi4, and one problem is that dropbox (that I depend on for reasons out of my control) doesn’t run on the arm processor. But since dropbox runs on the central server, I sync all files in my dropbox on the server with the pi, actually in a folder called ~/Dropbox, meaning it feels exactly like dropbox is running on the pi.

NB: If you’re not familiar with unison let me say that a) it’s very stable and b) it needs same version of unison on both ends, which I solved by compiling unison from source (git), only dependency is ocaml… And finally (obviously) c) if you wanna play with it, make yourself familiar with it on throw-away data, so a pilot error won’t make you lose all your data :sunglasses:

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#290

got x42 midifilter rocking
it helps isolate plugins in Ardour to separate midi channels
so ORCA can sequence them
(edit: make sure the midi filter plugin is at the top of the fader chain of plugins)
yoshimi, Helm, samplv1

https://github.com/x42/midifilter.lv2

#291

Surge is amazing btw
love it

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#292

sorting the massive hard disk music collection

http://beets.radbox.org

and weirdly, cramming it all on a 256g tiny usb flash drive

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#293

new to linux :slight_smile:
so, here’s a noob question
what’s a 'Linux distributions meant for audio processing?
having fun, learning lots
and…
is this worth doing?

'Using JACK…
edit the file /etc/security/limits.conf
https://www.maartenbaert.be/simplescreenrecorder/recording-game-audio/

https://www.instagram.com/p/B7RRPRSJvlo/?igshid=1ujzo7mjdgemq
even my linux box
is an old mac

#294

KX Studio, Ubuntu Studio… there’s a few just search Linux Audio Distribution. Or did you mean one specifically intended for just processing?

That depends on what your idea of “fun” is :smiley:

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#295

cool, thx
yes, like this kind of system configuration >https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Professional_audio#System_configuration
probably just where I sit,
doesn’t everyone want ‘low-latency audio?:slightly_smiling_face:

#296

I’ve got some links too in a post from a few years ago. Most of the links are still valid, if you scroll a few comments down:


EDIT: That is to say, you can do this for any Linux system. Don’t need an ‘audio-focused’ distribution.

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#297

I’m finding myself disinclined to use audio distros these days. Especially with ubuntu flavors. I can just download all the ubuntu-studio packages and update the kernel to real-time. It’s much less of a pain than it used to be.

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#298

fantastic, thanks for the links!
:slightly_smiling_face:
‘audio-intended config settings

#299

I’ve tried a few “audio focused” distros, but I’m back (since years) to Debian stable.

The problem seems to be that those projects might not have enough traction, and the ones I tried, eventually dried out.

IMHO you’re better off with a stable, established distro, add a real-time kernel, and you’re good to go.

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#300

Everyone here? Probably, yes.

Everyone in the general public? Nah, most of 'em don’t care.

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#301

not going to get in to technical weeds but my linux laptop crapped out last night. I can log in to the terminal but x-windows won’t start. My best guess is that my swap partition ran out of space? Probably fixable but maybe outside my patience capacity right now. I’m in the process of backing up my audio projects before I wipe it out and start over. I might try Elementary OS this time based on @neauoire’s recommendation. My hard drive is smallish (64g) so I need to be more strategic about partitioning and decisions about what I install. Otherwise I’ve used Windows pretty minimally and for very specific tasks. I haven’t missed it much.

#302

it’s not their fault…
maybe they just don’t know :slight_smile:

#303

Let me know if you’ve got any question with Elementary :wave:

#304

fantastic, yes, thanks
looking for this kind of system configuration…

git clone git://github.com/raboof/realtimeconfigquickscan.git
cd realtimeconfigquickscan
perl ./realTimeConfigQuickScan.pl

https://wiki.linuxaudio.org/wiki/system_configuration
https://wiki.linuxaudio.org/wiki/system_configuration#hardware_timers

and,
it’s complicated…
"Unfortunately there’s no consensus on what values to use
"Using hardware timers to achieve more accurate MIDI timing is questionable

although I did get my system’s swappiness down to 10 - good
(comedy) :slight_smile:
is there consensus on the value of a real-time kernel in 2020 linux (elementary Juno)
audio group
CPU Governors
high precision event timer
real-time clock
?
thanks :slight_smile:

//www.instagram.com/p/B76NM4apwR0/?igshid=wyyd1jz6mte3

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