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RsyncUI: SwiftUI GUI for rsync on macOS
RsyncUI is a SwiftUI macOS GUI for rsync that makes the powerful but intimidating CLI tool accessible without touching the terminal. Requires macOS Sonoma or later.
How to Back Up Your Git Repositories
A Medium guide on backing up git repositories — covering bare clone strategy, rsync to external storage, and hosting your own Gitea/Gogs instance. Addresses the risk of losing code when hosting platforms go down or accounts get banned.
Backup Tool Alternatives: HN Thread
Hacker News thread cataloging backup tool alternatives — attic, borg, restic, and others — with practitioner perspectives on which holds up at scale. The comment thread is where the real comparison happens.
Amazon Glacier: Ultra-Low-Cost Archival Storage
Amazon Glacier launched in 2012 as an ultra-low-cost archival storage service at $0.01/GB/month — an order of magnitude cheaper than S3. The tradeoff was retrieval latency of hours, not milliseconds, making it purely for cold data.
Back That Gmail Up
Jerod Santo's guide to backing up Gmail using getmail or similar IMAP tools — a practical reminder that cloud-hosted email is not automatically backed up and depends entirely on Google's availability and goodwill.