keep a backup forever

2018-01-30 Thread hymie
I feel like I've asked this before, but I can't find any emails. I can't believe this isn't an FAQ. Or rather, there is an FAQ, but the answer is (a) very sparse and (b) doesn't really answer the question. I had a machine. That machine was getting regular backups. The machine died. I have repl

Re: keep a backup forever

2018-01-30 Thread Charles Curley
On Tue, 30 Jan 2018 14:29:24 -0500 hy...@lactose.homelinux.net wrote: > So having had this > emergency, I now want to keep, in perpetuity, my last full backup of > the now-dead machine. You may prefer to grab the last full backups and any subsequent partial backups, so that you have a snapshot of

Re: keep a backup forever

2018-01-30 Thread ghe
On 01/30/2018 12:29 PM, hy...@lactose.homelinux.net wrote: > I feel like I've asked this before, but I can't find any emails. > I can't believe this isn't an FAQ. Or rather, there is an FAQ, but the > answer is (a) very sparse and (b) doesn't really answer the question. > > I had a machine. That

Re: keep a backup forever

2018-01-30 Thread Robert Heller
At Tue, 30 Jan 2018 14:29:24 -0500 hy...@lactose.homelinux.net wrote: > > I feel like I've asked this before, but I can't find any emails. > I can't believe this isn't an FAQ. Or rather, there is an FAQ, but the > answer is (a) very sparse and (b) doesn't really answer the question. > > I had a

Re: keep a backup forever

2018-01-31 Thread Austin S. Hemmelgarn
On 2018-01-30 17:18, ghe wrote: On 01/30/2018 12:29 PM, hy...@lactose.homelinux.net wrote: I feel like I've asked this before, but I can't find any emails. I can't believe this isn't an FAQ. Or rather, there is an FAQ, but the answer is (a) very sparse and (b) doesn't really answer the question