![]() I am not positive why they couldn't just get the size from the GCS metadata but it may have been related to the on-the-fly compression they do to your blobs. Furthermore, that tool worked by fetching the entire GCS blob to just to verify its size. However, if you read the patch notes, s3ql had some serious sounding data corruption bugs and I needed to fsck the backup volume and also run a special data verification tool related to the data corruption issue. It was easy to get the iMac to boot off of a Debian live USB, install s3ql and its dependencies on that, and do rsync to backup the whole drive. I use s3ql and Google Cloud Storage for my cloud backups and wanted to do a complete backup of this drive. The old hard drive had a still working but slow spinning disk drive full of personal documents and photos from my family. So maybe I can throw Windows 7 on it, have a stable Windows machine around for once, and have an actual gaming PC? I went for it. At the same time, though, I don't play games released in the past decade. ![]() ![]() I thought it might make a good web browsing appliance but I didn't realistically see it getting much use in this household. The iMac was released in 2011 with a Sandy Bridge i5, a big, beautiful monitor, 12 GB of RAM or so, and an integrated, laptop-grade Radeon 6750M graphics card. I've had this iMac 12,1 sitting around for a few years unused.
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