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my Microsoft Surface3 no longer “wifi-connects” to my router – problems with “WPA3 transition mode” (WPA2 + WPA3)
My Microsoft Surface3 runs Windows 10.
It sees all my wi-fi networks. But still:
unable to connect to this network
I had to disable the “WPA3 transition mode (WPA2 + WPA3)” and fall back to “WPA2 (CCMP)“.
- https://en.avm.de/service/fritzbox/fritzbox-7590/knowledge-base/publication/show/509_Wireless-device-cannot-establish-a-connection-to-the-FRITZ-Box/
- https://avm.de/service/fritzbox/fritzbox-7590/wissensdatenbank/publication/show/509_WLAN-Gerat-stellt-keine-Verbindung-zur-FRITZ-Box-her/
- https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/surface/forum/surfgo-surfnetwork/surface-wpa3/f1cc5c1f-2756-469c-aa04-8c57b5eeb515
- https://community.netgear.com/t5/Orbi-AX/WPA3-issues/td-p/1815120
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Unix …: “exa” – a modern replacement for “ls”
pros:
- … (lots, that’s why I started installing and using it all around me)
cons:
- I can easily ignore backup files ending in a ~ (AKA “tilde”), but if I do want to see them, that’s difficult – “ls --ignore-backups” ignores backup files, if run on a directory, but it shows them, when I list them on the command line – that’s what I got rather used to
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BorgBackup – Deduplicating archiver with compression and authenticated encryption
- https://www.borgbackup.org/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borg_(backup_software)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attic_(backup_software)#Borg
- https://www.curlie.org/Computers/Software/Internet/Site_Management/Backup/
This utility lets me back up files resp. directories
- to a target directory (which can be a “network share“)
- as well as to a remote directory reachable through SSH.
Its target is called a repository.
In order to browse the backups I can mount that repository to a local directory – Borg lets me mount a repository
- from a local directory
- but also from a remote directory reachable through SSH
to a local directory.
One of my favourite features of Borg: On my NAS (which is where I SSH to) I can “borg mount” the back-ups created “from remote” (in “read-only” mode) – this is perfect, because I can browse my backups exactly where they are physically located, i.e. with minimal overhead, easy use of Unix / Linux commands for finding and inspecting files.
Borg is perfect for backing up files from a desktop computer and also from a server computer.
Borg is open source and it comes free.
Borg is rather easy to install.
Just like rsync Borg does not physically copy over a file, which is already in the repository, but it does everything to make the file appear as residing in the backup snapshot.