WSL2 provides great disk performance, but it requires storing the files separately in a virtual disk that is not accessible by OneDrive. WSL2 can be backed up with wsl --export Debian to a VHD or TGZ, but that is a complete disk backup of 20gb or more -- not scalable for hourly backups.

With this approach, we use Windows Task Scheduler to trigger robocopy to incrementally sync directories from WSL2 to Onedrive's native FS, so incremental copies are fast ( 1 s per 10k files), and OneDrive sync time remains negligible.

It's also useful for snapshotting subdirectories to TGZ for offline or …

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With the news that AWS will be now charging about $4 / instance-month for public IPv4 addresses, many developers who procrastinated ipv6 migration are finally updating both ends of their development setup.

It's a great time to migrate, as all the intermediate infrastructure now supports IPV6 readily. Moreover, you'll benefit from permanent , global addresses for your development instances.

Pros

• A single, global, stable address for EC2 instances that never changes. No need for dynamic DNS and other hacks
• No need to pay for Elastic IP addresses on dev instances
• Global addressing for mutual duplex services (no more NAT needed)
• Better flexibility …

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