[14:32] Gather around kids, I will regale you with the story of how thafreak recovered backups from a remote vps that had no internet access [14:32] * thafreak dusts off tree stump near campfire [14:33] It all began when the server hosting my gogs git repo suddenly was no longer reachable [14:33] But I was able to log in to the serial console remotely still [14:34] When I realized it wasn't going to get fixed, and my last backup was 4am in the morning, I wanted some more recent backups [14:34] But how [14:34] Then I remembered back to my old BBS days and how we would transfer files with zmodem protocol, and how someone got zmodem to work over ssh [14:35] But the server had no zmodem stuff installd and with no internet access, no way to get new packages installed [14:36] Then it dawns on me, base64 encoding and copy/pasting is basically the same concept, and I had base64 [14:36] but with gigs of data, I needed a better way to capture the text output... [14:36] * thafreak had a lightbulb moment [14:36] the venerable script command! [14:37] So yes, I ran script on my laptop, logged into the serial console and base64'd to stdout my backups [14:37] I then had a giant text file locally, where I had to trim the top and bottom lines out (head and tail to the rescue) [14:38] and boom, I transfered a few gig of compressed backups to my laptop [14:38] And the most amazing part, the transfer speed was actually REALLY good [14:39] I was expecting it to take hours, but I was getting basically MB's/s of transfer...via ssh connected to a serial console [22:52] wait, what [22:52] traffic in ubuntu-us-oh? [22:53] holy shit that's a big text file [22:53] thafreak: you have earned your nick this day my friend [22:53] that is totally a freak thing to do [22:53] Impressive nevertheless. [22:54] no dispute! [22:54] thafreak: did you at least use the 'split' command to break it up?