eThis short manual gives a (more or less) systematic overview of "how things work" in our group. This manual is relevant for all "rtsys group members", which includes employees and students advised by a group member (bachelor/master/study/diploma/doctoral theses).
Data Backup: Your home directory (rtsys account) is backed up daily. To save space on the backup drive, you should list parts that do not have to be backed up in ~/.backup-ignore
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Incremental hourly Backups are sent via incremental zfs-snapshots from skew to the backup host timesink. Every night a daily snapshot is taken and kept for 10 days. This means that if you accidently deleted a file which is not in the daily snapshots, you would have at least one hour before it is lost. The Backup is auto-mounted under
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There's some things you'll have to do as a new group member.
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SSH: If you do not already have an SSH key, you should generate one to get access to some of the systems you'll be working with.
An SSH-Key is a key pair for use in asymmetric cryptosystems. It can be generated with the program
The filename prompt for the key can be skipped with return. The passphrase is a symmetric key that is used to encrypt your secret key; if you write something there, you have to enter that same password every time you use your key, e.g. when you log in with |
And there's even more things you'll have to do if you are a new Mitarbeiter.
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