[00:48] <xubuntu682> Does anyone have experience installing a CANON laser printer CUPS driver on lubuntu v 14.04?
[01:03] <wxl> xubuntu682: it should be the same for every other *buntu afaik, so you might want to try #ubuntu
[11:43] <noobboob> Should a backup strategy always involve local and cloud storage?
[11:49] <hateball> Depends what your SLA is
[11:49] <hateball> My own backup strategy involves no backups at all
[11:49] <noobboob> SLA? (service level agreement)
[11:50] <hateball> yes
[11:50] <noobboob> that's mine at the moment too hateball
[11:50] <noobboob> it's the best way
[11:50] <hateball> I mean, it's highly dependent on what you need/want :)
[11:50] <noobboob> no stress of worrying if you can recover or not. You have an instant answer. No you can't it's gone forever
[11:51] <noobboob> I'm talking about how sensible people who always preach proper backups do it.
[11:51] <noobboob> when they say "Proper backups" wtf do they mean.
[11:52] <hateball> :D
[11:52] <hateball> well some sort of offsite or detached backup is a good start
[11:52] <hateball> are you backing up a datacenter or just your own family photos?
[11:53] <noobboob> I like your line of thinking.
[11:54] <hateball> if you just have some personal data to backup, do that to some removable media that you keep removed while not backing up
[11:54] <noobboob> backing up files for the house hold about 5 of us on various devices
[11:54] <hateball> for that purpose you could set up a server/nas running Nextcloud or something
[11:55] <noobboob> so i use office 365
[11:55] <hateball> that's got storage you could backup to I guess. just like I myself do to google
[11:55] <noobboob> I originally was going to have a nas and back it up/sync it with that but someone told me i could just keep it all on 365 and don't need to do anything else.
[11:56] <noobboob> that didn't seem right to me.
[11:56] <hateball> sure, it all depends how much trust you are willing to put into things
[11:56] <hateball> I rsync my machine to a removable drive now and then, but primarily my data is in my google account
[11:56] <hateball> it's all about tradeoff
[11:58] <noobboob> tradeoff? what between doing something and nothing?
[11:58] <RogerPeartree> Hello people can someone please tell me what's the Live Session username and password for Lubuntu Next (build 2017-12-27 from daily images bionic-desktop-amd64.iso? I've tried the Internet answer which is Lubuntu/(blank password and a dozen other option but nothing works many thanks in advance
[11:59] <noobboob> try admin and blank
[11:59] <noobboob> you no blank you just don't type anything right.
[11:59] <noobboob> know*
[12:00] <RogerPeartree> ok I'll try that many thanks noobboob
[12:01] <hateball> noobboob: yes, I mean you could run ZFS and snapshot your filesystem every 10 minutes, or you could be happy by syncing some stuff daily, etc
[12:13] <noobboob> yeah so i've heard of this snap shot thing. how does that work accross multiple devices? Does that eat up tons of storage?
[12:14] <noobboob> I guess like snapshots everyhour kind of does the job it means you would never have to do more than an hours work to recover.
[22:06] <jk^> hi all
[22:07] <jk^> i have to download and install "RAR". Have i to install it by lubuntu software center or by packages manager? :\
[22:13] <genii> rar is a compression format, like for instance, zip. Anything could be inside once you uncompress it. If it's something you are supposed to install it would not likely be something you can open with software center or a package manager, it would likely have it's own instructions inside with a README file or something similar.
[22:53] <jk^> genii, i don't undestand very well, but my problem is that i can't extract .rar files. If i remember well, there are - unrar - unrar-free and rar which make me able to extract .rar files
[22:53] <jk^> unrar and unrar free maybe let me just extract
[22:54] <jk^> unrar-free supports only old formats
[22:54] <jk^> old .rar files versions
[22:54] <jk^> rar let me extract and create...
[22:54] <jk^> correct me if i said something wrong
[22:57] <genii> If you want to install unrar, enable multiverse repository in package manager, you should be able to install it after that.
[23:26] <jk^> genii, unrar is just to extract, i need also add/remove files to various archives
[23:33] <jk^> i think i need rar because it let me both create archives, add/remove files to an archive and extract files from archives
[23:33] <jk^> unrar doesn't let me do all these things
[23:33] <jk^> genii,