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marble track 3 at 121

09:33 Saturday 18 May 2013

I've finished a minute and 21 seconds worth of Marble Track 3 video.

There's exactly one piece that crosses over another track. In the image below, the pink character is standing on that piece which is marked with black.

The other pieces marked in black are the continuation of that track, which ends in the lower middle of MT3. (hmm I'm using the word "track" to describe a single track and "track" to describe the entire thing.)

Parallel to that track is marked in purple. The purple dotted piece has just been cut by the green guy, who is about to cut where the purple line crosses the piece.

On either outer edge, light blue and light green lines mark the tracks so far.

The white guy with green head is about to pick up sticks to have them cut and cross the end of the black track with the purple track.

Yellow guy with green backpack is going to take the cut pieces and place them as berms on the lower right 180 degree turn. Pink and white guys are going to place the piece Pink is holding; it will be the second piece to cross over another track.

But first, I'm going to the iOS meetup in Shiboooyah!

using duplicity to backup marble track 3

##07:04 Saturday 18 May 2013

10:46pm Friday 17 May 2013

I had been using Cyberduck, but it has to update the entire huge file each time so takes too long and cannot recover from network errors.

I found and even installed expandrive but it's not free, so I kept looking

I looked at boar which would probably do just fine, but I did a couple more searches

I found git-bigfiles which would probably also do fine,

Then I found a quite recent article with several of my preferred keywords: Backing up to DreamObjects with Duplicity

Everything went pretty smoothly with a couple caveats.  Note: the following isn't meant to be a tutorial so much as a reminder to myself how I installed Duplicity.

 brew install librsync python gpg ncftp

this failed until I ran

brew update

Now back on track, but you should use latest version of Duplicity

 tar xvzf duplicity-0.6.21.tar.gz

 pip install boto httplib2 oauth

 cd duplicity-0.6.21

 sudo python setup.py install

Now save the following into ~/.boto

[Credentials]
aws_access_key_id = xxxxxxxx your access key xxxxxxxxx
aws_secret_access_key = xxxxxxxxxxxx your secret key here xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Yay ready to go

 duplicity --allow-source-mismatch ~/Documents/duplicity/ s3://objects.dreamhost.com/duplicity

duplicity spooked me at first when it responded with this:

Local and Remote metadata are synchronized, no sync needed.
Last full backup date: none

I was like "gah! it didn't backup!!!" but just give it some time(*) it should work.

(*) it took less time than for me to find another possible candidate: s3cmd