Re: Recommendation for filesystem for USB external drive for backups

2020-08-13 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 12 aug 20, 20:14:03, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > I'm getting closer to setting up a consistent backup plan, backing up to an > external USB drive. I'm wondering about a reasonable filesystem to use, I > think I want to stay in the ext2/3/4 family, and I'm wondering if there is > any > g

Re: Recommendation for filesystem for USB external drive for backups

2020-08-13 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-08-13 01:31, David Christensen wrote: > Migrating to ZFS was non-trivial, and I am still wresting with > disaster preparedness. I should have qualified that -- when I used ZFS only as a volume manager and file system, it was not much harder than md and ext4. You could put a GPT partiti

Re: Recommendation for filesystem for USB external drive for backups

2020-08-13 Thread Tom Dial
On 8/13/20 13:52, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Thursday, August 13, 2020 01:45:59 PM Tom Dial wrote: >> Debian ZFS root (and boot) is not *that* hard; see the instructions at >> >> https://openzfs.github.io/openzfs-docs/Getting%20Started/Debian/Debian%20B >> uster%20Root%20on%20ZFS.html >> >>

Re: Recommendation for filesystem for USB external drive for backups

2020-08-13 Thread rhkramer
On Thursday, August 13, 2020 04:09:46 PM David Christensen wrote: > On 2020-08-13 12:52, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > On Thursday, August 13, 2020 01:45:59 PM Tom Dial wrote: > >> I would recommend installing from buster-backports to get the current > >> openzfs release which includes improvements

Re: Debian 10.3

2020-08-13 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, 13 Aug 2020 15:33:25 -0600 Bob Price wrote: > I installed 10.3 when it first came out and really enjoyed it. I saw > 10.4 come out so I went to that and was highly disappointed. I did > not like the idea that the icons were hidden and some hard to get to. > So I waited until 10.5 came ou

Re: Debian 10.3

2020-08-13 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Thu, Aug 13, 2020, 4:57 PM Bob Price wrote: I did not > like the idea that the icons were hidden and some hard to get to. So I > waited until 10.5 came out and went to that with the same problems. I > hated it. The user interface that you choose to use with debian can be one of several.

Debian 10.3

2020-08-13 Thread Bob Price
I installed 10.3 when it first came out and really enjoyed it. I saw 10.4 come out so I went to that and was highly disappointed. I did not like the idea that the icons were hidden and some hard to get to. So I waited until 10.5 came out and went to that with the same problems. I hated it. I we

Re: Recommendation for filesystem for USB external drive for backups

2020-08-13 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Thursday, August 13, 2020 2:50 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: > D. R. Evans wrote: > > > Greg Wooledge wrote on 8/13/20 2:29 PM: > > > > > The simplest answer would be to use ext4. > > > > I concur, given the OP's use c

curious update situation

2020-08-13 Thread Default User
Please consider the following: dimwit@dimwit:~$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 9.4.0 _Stretch_ - Official amd64 NETINST 20180310-11:21]/ buster contrib main non-free deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/unstable main contrib non-free # deb-src

Re: Recommendation for filesystem for USB external drive for backups

2020-08-13 Thread Dan Ritter
D. R. Evans wrote: > Greg Wooledge wrote on 8/13/20 2:29 PM: > > > > > The simplest answer would be to use ext4. > > > > I concur, given the OP's use case. And I speak as someone who raves about ZFS > at every reasonable opportunity :-) Also concur. But by all means buy a spare drive and expe

Re: Apt-get vs Aptitude vs Apt

2020-08-13 Thread Default User
On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 1:58 AM Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Ma, 11 aug 20, 15:33:53, Javier Barroso wrote: > > > > I swiched from aptitude to apt-get/apt some years ago > > > > aptitude need love :( > > > > My problem was mixing 64 and 32 bits packages. Seem aptitude didn't do a > > good job > >

Re: Recommendation for filesystem for USB external drive for backups

2020-08-13 Thread D. R. Evans
Greg Wooledge wrote on 8/13/20 2:29 PM: > > The simplest answer would be to use ext4. > I concur, given the OP's use case. And I speak as someone who raves about ZFS at every reasonable opportunity :-) Doc -- Web: http://enginehousebooks.com/drevans signature.asc Description: OpenPGP d

Re: Recommendation for filesystem for USB external drive for backups

2020-08-13 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 01:09:46PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: > On 2020-08-13 12:52, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > * Most of my backup will be done from a Wheezy system -- can I install > > ZFS > > on Wheezy? > > I do not see any ZFS packages for Wheezy: > > The simplest answer would be

Re: Recommendation for filesystem for USB external drive for backups

2020-08-13 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-08-13 12:52, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday, August 13, 2020 01:45:59 PM Tom Dial wrote: Debian ZFS root (and boot) is not *that* hard; see the instructions at https://openzfs.github.io/openzfs-docs/Getting%20Started/Debian/Debian%20B uster%20Root%20on%20ZFS.html They certainl

Re: Recommendation for filesystem for USB external drive for backups

2020-08-13 Thread rhkramer
On Thursday, August 13, 2020 01:45:59 PM Tom Dial wrote: > Debian ZFS root (and boot) is not *that* hard; see the instructions at > > https://openzfs.github.io/openzfs-docs/Getting%20Started/Debian/Debian%20B > uster%20Root%20on%20ZFS.html > > They certainly are not harder than installing early

Re: Recommendation for filesystem for USB external drive for backups

2020-08-13 Thread local10
Aug 13, 2020, 00:14 by rhkra...@gmail.com: > I'm getting closer to setting up a consistent backup plan, backing up to an > external USB drive. I'm wondering about a reasonable filesystem to use, I > think I want to stay in the ext2/3/4 family, and I'm wondering if there is > any > good reas

Re: Recommendation for filesystem for USB external drive for backups

2020-08-13 Thread Tom Dial
On 8/13/20 02:31, David Christensen wrote: > On 8/12/20 5:14 PM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: >> I'm getting closer to setting up a consistent backup plan, backing up >> to an >> external USB drive.  I'm wondering about a reasonable filesystem to >> use, I >> think I want to stay in the ext2/3/4 fa

Re: add 2FA to ssh

2020-08-13 Thread Thomas Pircher
Henning Follmann wrote: > Maintain a good keychain and you wont need 2FA. I'm curious, What do you mean by keychain in context of ssh? The application of that name or something else? Thomas

Re: RFE: a "testcd" (a la knoppix) option for the debian DVD?

2020-08-13 Thread Albretch Mueller
It always amazes me when computer people rely on syntactical devices for any kinds of tests (like everything is so obvious, right? ;-)); let alone, integrity, security, "privacy" related ones (or that thing they used to call "privacy"). > The testcd option for Knoppix is checksumming as far as I

Re: add 2FA to ssh

2020-08-13 Thread Henning Follmann
On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 09:39:43AM -0500, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > On Thu, Aug 13, 2020, 6:47 AM Henning Follmann > wrote: > > > On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 01:37:39PM +0200, Pòl Hallen wrote: > > > Hi folks :) > > > > > > > > what it better with 2FA: at ssh login request first 2FA authentication >

Re: add 2FA to ssh

2020-08-13 Thread James Allsopp
Hi, You can do it at the same time with a yubikey and editing your pam file. https://developers.yubico.com/yubico-pam/YubiKey_and_SSH_via_PAM.html#:~:text=The%20Yubico%20PAM%20module%20for,YubiKey%20assigned%20to%20the%20user. Been doing this for years, James On Thu, 13 Aug 2020 at 15:24, Toni

Re: add 2FA to ssh

2020-08-13 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Thu, Aug 13, 2020, 6:47 AM Henning Follmann wrote: > On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 01:37:39PM +0200, Pòl Hallen wrote: > > Hi folks :) > > > > > what it better with 2FA: at ssh login request first 2FA authentication > next > > ssh password or viceversa? > > > > thanks! > > > > Pol > > sorry to say,

Re: add 2FA to ssh

2020-08-13 Thread Toni Mas Soler
I think 2FA first is better. Thus you don't have to type your password if you have a wrong 2FA. Toni Mas Missatge de Pòl Hallen del dia dj., 13 d’ag. 2020 a les 13:38: > > Hi folks :) > > > what it better with 2FA: at ssh login request first 2FA authentication > next ssh password or viceversa? >

Re: is there a way to corrupt the BIOS and/or the keybord on you laptop from the Internet? ...

2020-08-13 Thread David Wright
On Wed 12 Aug 2020 at 17:05:01 (+0200), Albretch Mueller wrote: > > I recommend to thoroughly test your hardware using different OS (possibly > > non-Linux) and if you manage to reproduce the problems, it would mean a > > hardware failure. > > The only thing that I have "discovered" is that for

Re: [OT] Remote SSH (dynamic IP) without third-party server

2020-08-13 Thread David Wright
On Wed 12 Aug 2020 at 07:34:03 (-0400), Michael Stone wrote: > On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 10:26:45PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > Registering a domain name with a dynamic DNS service is more complex > > than registering an email service > > It really isn't, but whatever. To register an email servi

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2020-08-13 Thread Michael
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Re: add 2FA to ssh

2020-08-13 Thread Henning Follmann
On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 01:37:39PM +0200, Pòl Hallen wrote: > Hi folks :) > > > what it better with 2FA: at ssh login request first 2FA authentication next > ssh password or viceversa? > > thanks! > > Pol > sorry to say, but 2FA is again one of the hype things. Why do you need 2FA for ssh. I

add 2FA to ssh

2020-08-13 Thread Pòl Hallen
Hi folks :) what it better with 2FA: at ssh login request first 2FA authentication next ssh password or viceversa? thanks! Pol

Re: Recommendation for filesystem for USB external drive for backups

2020-08-13 Thread tomas
On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 09:15:21PM -0600, Charles Curley wrote: > On Wed, 12 Aug 2020 20:14:03 -0400 > rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > > I'm getting closer to setting up a consistent backup plan, backing up > > to an external USB drive. I'm wondering about a reasonable > > filesystem to use, I thin

Re: Recommendation for filesystem for USB external drive for backups

2020-08-13 Thread tomas
On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 12:55:35PM +1200, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: > On 13/08/2020 12:14, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > >I'm getting closer to setting up a consistent backup plan, backing up to an > >external USB drive. I'm wondering about a reasonable filesystem to use, I > >think I want to stay i

Re: Recommendation for filesystem for USB external drive for backups

2020-08-13 Thread David Christensen
On 8/12/20 5:14 PM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: I'm getting closer to setting up a consistent backup plan, backing up to an external USB drive. I'm wondering about a reasonable filesystem to use, I think I want to stay in the ext2/3/4 family, and I'm wondering if there is any good reason to use an