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cdmnky had a bit of a "oh fuck" day, losing their password database to a bad
sync through `syncthing`. I use Keepass myself (I don't trust cloud password
storage), and my tool for keeping my passwords backed up has been Time Machine
on MacOS, and cold copies on my backup drives for everything (MacOS included).

I sadly don't know of anything for *nix that might work for this issue. Maybe
make a copy of the database through a cron job, tag it with the date as part of
the filename, then rsync or syncthing it to another system with another cron
task. I mean, it's simple and potentially effective.

The reason I use Time Machine on my Mac is because it's automatic. Every hour,
a backup is made, with the last 24 hours of hourly backups kept. Beyond that,
you get daily backups for the past month, and weekly backups for all months
before that. If the disk is full, it deletes the absolute oldest backups to
make room. And I don't have to think about it. It just does what's needed,
so long as the drive for the backups is connected. I could even set it up to
use a networked drive if I wanted to.

I really wish that sort of functionality was available on *nix in an 
easy-to-use package, but if it exists, I don't know of it. If someone out there
does, toss me an email (altarious[at]live[dot]com). I could use it for my one
Linux laptop that I currently have, and I could mention it here for others to
know about.

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In other news... Remember ZeLibertineGamer? Turns out zlg is an old friend of 
mine under another name. They used to know me as "Yameneko549", back on 
GameFAQs. I didn't even know this until I got a message on a long-abandoned
LiveJournal account that went to my email. And I just happened to be going
through my junk mail at the time, which is honestly not something I do. Just...
What are the odds!?

So yeah! That was a nice little dose of happy to wake up to this morning.

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