Ian Denhardt

Quoting Jacob Weisz (2020-08-09 13:56:18) > Our errors should probably direct people to contact us rather than > instructing them how to silently reenable the functionality. Since we > need...

Does this happen every time? Maybe try adding `ulimit -n 8192` or such early to `launcher.sh`; that should solve the issue if it is indeed an fd exhaustion issue.

This could possibly be subsumed by (something like) the api is suggested at: https://github.com/sandstorm-io/sandstorm/issues/2586#issuecomment-274180052 ...plus a cli tool that talks to it.

It would certainly be easier to call into sandstorm to do a backup from the command line. But per discussion above I think providing a way to do this via...

Ideally what I'd like to do is have most functionality available via a capnproto API on some interface somewhere, and make sure we're using the same public API for most...

For the latter case, I wonder if a better approach would be to just install on top of a filesystem that supports snapshots (e.g. btrfs), and skip formal backups (that...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Btrfs and in particular https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Btrfs#Subvolumes_and_snapshots You'd have to set it up when formatting the drive, but it's been around long enough at this point that it's going to be on...

Fwiw, i see no reason not to allow backups for admin users of any grain they can see. It would be a pretty simple change. Once the grain settings page...

Filter yes, sort without filtering no. But yeah I don't consider this a particularly dire problem. I happened to reach for it while picking through some old grains just now.

Right now I don't think there's a way to do this without just managing TLS yourself. I agree it would be good to be able to add domains via the...