https://xkcd.com/927/ Many (Most (All?)?) of the options that come up on your suggested search are excellent... Read about each, try the ones that sound like they work the way you want, settle on one that actually works the way you want...
ESPECIALLY because you have particular engineering requirements that none of us can seem to understand, much less predict... No one sits down and writes "Surveys" of backup solutions, because a backup solution is dependent on the use case, the budget, the personality and mood of the person making the decision, your threshold for damage by solar flares, the current status of the ionosphere (OK, those last two may be in jest)... You engineer it for your needs, on a case by case basis... The tools you use are often dictated by the service or device you are backing up to, or vice versa, or you just use RSync or one of it's shells to backup to a SSD and call it a day... I mean... You throw simple one liner questions at us, then complain about the simple one liner answers we give you... Maybe reading some of the articles provided by your search engine of choice (And understanding them) will lead to valuable vocabulary? Why are you expecting us to read your mind better than DuckDuckGo does? Are DuckDuckGo's Engineers not at least as smart as I am? On Sat, Dec 22, 2018, 10:47 Richard Owlett <[email protected] wrote: > On 12/22/2018 08:45 AM, David Fleck wrote: > > On Sat, 2018-12-22 at 08:04 -0600, Rich Shepard wrote: > > > >> On Sat, 22 Dec 2018, Richard Owlett wrote: > >> > >>> Any recommended survey articles? > >> > >> Surveys about what? > > > > Backups. > > My search had been > https://duckduckgo.com/html?q=file%20backup%20methods > > The hits were either too brief or too focused on only one aspect. > > I am looking for reading that will prompt me to ask the "right" > questions to chose, > > I browsed some pages on rsync and dirvish. > That reinforced my idea that I need to "survey the lay of the land > before choosing a specific application. > > > > > > Personally, I have a script that uses rsync to copy files to an > otherwise-unused desktop machine's hard drive. It works for me, but I doubt > it's anything near a 'best practice'. > > > > -- > > > > David Fleck <[email protected]> > > _______________________________________________ > > PLUG mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > On Dec 22, 2018 10:47, "Richard Owlett" <[email protected]> wrote: On 12/22/2018 08:45 AM, David Fleck wrote: > On Sat, 2018-12-22 at 08:04 -0600, Rich Shepard wrote: > >> On Sat, 22 Dec 2018, Richard Owlett wrote: >> >>> Any recommended survey articles? >> >> Surveys about what? > > Backups. My search had been https://duckduckgo.com/html?q=file%20backup%20methods The hits were either too brief or too focused on only one aspect. I am looking for reading that will prompt me to ask the "right" questions to chose, I browsed some pages on rsync and dirvish. That reinforced my idea that I need to "survey the lay of the land before choosing a specific application. > > Personally, I have a script that uses rsync to copy files to an otherwise-unused desktop machine's hard drive. It works for me, but I doubt it's anything near a 'best practice'. > > -- > > David Fleck <[email protected]> > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
