Interested to hear more on this. My feet absolutely kill me around the house in the evening if I go barefoot too much. How long does it take to really build up this foot strength and do you have any support for this?

Similarly I'd like to ask how to jump industries. I have 12 years in enterprise IT as a network and systems admin and the last 5 years I've been living and breathing powershell at work, developed several python/flask side projects (one full site with cc processing, coupon code checking with JS, email notifications, user registration, etc.). Learned to use git, developed my first published windows store app, and now continuing to learn c# for fun.

I find myself enjoying coding more and more each day and IT support less and less. But I "know" IT territory very well. From IT managers, to day in day out, to projects one cam expect. I live and breathe it. I feel out of my depths even applying or building a resume for a development job and have a family to support. What's the safest and best way to get my bearings and jump into a dev job?

Work is supportive of my advancement in coding, but its leveraged as a cheap way to automate processes.

- Work is supportive of my advancement in coding, but its leveraged as a cheap way to automate processes

You are the magical "DevOps". Put that on your resume and wait for the offers to flood in. Just tell prospective employers that you want more "dev" than "ops".

As the other comments say, just call yourself a Devops person. It is for companies who want to automate sysadmin stuff in coordination with newer technologies like docker.

As a long time crashplan user, I backup a few Tb of data and use the key based encryption. Does arq fall flate in comparison to anyone? I like the sound of this, but I am wondering if I gain anything versus using cradhplan to just write the files locally instead of sending to crashplans storage.

Open format.

I wonder. Assume you do not have arqbackup, and--for the sake of your short open format comment--arq_restore is outdated. You have downloaded all the data chunks (the many, many, many arq creates), how do you go by to decrypt it and get the original data in working state?

I'm not sure what you mean by outdated; it seems to work fine. If not, you read https://www.arqbackup.com/s3_data_format.txt and write your own. In contrast, what do you do with your Crashplan data if you don't have access to Crashplan? It's lost.

Looks beautiful, What's it written in?

I would also like to know this, and also what GUI toolkit does it use (if any)?

Edit: It seems it's using QT, impressive.

Are you planning on windows store support (universal)? Says you support all major platforms but one is apparently missing :)

Great contribution!

We do have a lot in the pipeline, and Windows will be coming along :)

Thanks

A significant concern of mine with this is that Windows 8 has support for syncing your bitlocker encryption keys with microsoft. If privacy is something a user is seeking, how easy would it be to subpoena bitlocker keys for a user under duress?

Trivial. It's the same as any other business record.

The paged linked in the post explains how to create a VHD file, mount it using windows disk management, and then encrypt it using bitlocker. It supports dynamically expanding disks as well as fixed size disks that can be manually grown and volumes extended at a later date.

Using this method you can easily burn or transfer your VHDs, you can also store VHDs inside of VHDs.