Re: [DNG] backup

2020-05-19 Thread Rod Rodolico
As an aside, I have a set of USB drives at a client location. All have the label "archives" on the partition. I then create an fstab entry: LABEL=archives /media/archives ext4 noauto 0 2 or something like that (I don't remember the exact entry). They swap the drives out at will, and just before t

[DNG] backup

2020-05-19 Thread william moss via Dng
If you set the partition label for the target of a file system archive, then the use of findmnt eliminates the need for a special location. For example: findmnt -P -t ext4,xfs -o source,target,label Note, the file systems in the example should be set to what you use for your archive media. Si

Re: [DNG] Backup revisited - the rsync time machine

2018-02-05 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, Feb 05, 2018 at 09:08:59AM -1000, Joel Roth wrote: > On Mon, Feb 05, 2018 at 09:15:33AM -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 02, 2018 at 05:32:36PM -1000, Joel Roth wrote: > > > Dear list, > > > > > > For years I'd used a couple of rsync scripts for backup, > > > usually just full sn

Re: [DNG] Backup revisited - the rsync time machine

2018-02-05 Thread Joel Roth
On Mon, Feb 05, 2018 at 09:15:33AM -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Fri, Feb 02, 2018 at 05:32:36PM -1000, Joel Roth wrote: > > Dear list, > > > > For years I'd used a couple of rsync scripts for backup, > > usually just full snapshots. > > > > I knew there is an option using hardlinks that behave

Re: [DNG] Backup revisited - the rsync time machine

2018-02-05 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, Feb 02, 2018 at 05:32:36PM -1000, Joel Roth wrote: > Dear list, > > For years I'd used a couple of rsync scripts for backup, > usually just full snapshots. > > I knew there is an option using hardlinks that behaves like > the Mac Time Machine app, giving cheap incremental backups. > > ht

Re: [DNG] Backup revisited - the rsync time machine

2018-02-05 Thread viverna
il devuanizzato Joel Roth il 03-02-18 04:32:36 ha scritto: > Dear list, > > For years I'd used a couple of rsync scripts for backup, > usually just full snapshots. > > I knew there is an option using hardlinks that behaves like > the Mac Time Machine app, giving cheap incremental backups. You ma

Re: [DNG] Backup revisited - the rsync time machine

2018-02-02 Thread Erik Christiansen
On 02.02.18 17:32, Joel Roth wrote: > Probably you all have something much better, but for the > sake of discussion, and will post my humble offering. Not better, but a data point for anyone else backing up to a flash drive, which is convenient for the off-site backup. Rsync compares checksums b

[DNG] Backup revisited - the rsync time machine

2018-02-02 Thread Joel Roth
Dear list, For years I'd used a couple of rsync scripts for backup, usually just full snapshots. I knew there is an option using hardlinks that behaves like the Mac Time Machine app, giving cheap incremental backups. https://blog.interlinked.org/tutorials/rsync_time_machine.html And now I fool

Re: [DNG] Backup plans: was Which is free, which is open source, et al.

2018-01-16 Thread KatolaZ
On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 01:42:26AM +0800, Brad Campbell wrote: > On 14/01/18 06:30, KatolaZ wrote: > >The bet ingredient for a successful "Primary Plan" is to assume that > >there is no backup plan, an act accordingly ;) > > Quite on the contrary. Having a well formulated and tested backup plan me

Re: [DNG] Backup plans: was Which is free, which is open source, et al.

2018-01-16 Thread Brad Campbell
On 14/01/18 06:30, KatolaZ wrote: The bet ingredient for a successful "Primary Plan" is to assume that there is no backup plan, an act accordingly ;) Quite on the contrary. Having a well formulated and tested backup plan means you won't need it. That applies as well to plans as it does to ba

Re: [DNG] Backup plans: was Which is free, which is open source, et al.

2018-01-13 Thread KatolaZ
On Sat, Jan 13, 2018 at 10:30:29PM +, KatolaZ wrote: > On Sat, Jan 13, 2018 at 12:02:22PM -0500, Steve Litt wrote: > > [cut] > > > > > > > My personal distro backup plan (i.e., what I would do if Devuan would > > > not work fine for me at any given point in the future) consists in > > > putt

Re: [DNG] Backup plans: was Which is free, which is open source, et al.

2018-01-13 Thread KatolaZ
On Sat, Jan 13, 2018 at 12:02:22PM -0500, Steve Litt wrote: [cut] > > > > My personal distro backup plan (i.e., what I would do if Devuan would > > not work fine for me at any given point in the future) consists in > > putting some more effort in making Devuan work better. And then a bit > > mor

Re: [DNG] Backup plans: was Which is free, which is open source, et al.

2018-01-13 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Michael Siegel (m...@malbolge.net): > Am 13.01.2018 um 18:02 schrieb Steve Litt: > > [snip] > > > * OpenBSD now has hardware assisted virtual machines and is a great > > and stable "Linux". > > sed 's/Linux/Unix-like OS/' > > Also, there's a considerable (non-technical) difference betw

Re: [DNG] Backup plans: was Which is free, which is open source, et al.

2018-01-13 Thread Michael Siegel
Am 13.01.2018 um 18:02 schrieb Steve Litt: [snip] > * OpenBSD now has hardware assisted virtual machines and is a great > and stable "Linux". sed 's/Linux/Unix-like OS/' Also, there's a considerable (non-technical) difference between what GNU+Linux distributions like Devuan on the one side and

[DNG] Backup plans: was Which is free, which is open source, et al.

2018-01-13 Thread Steve Litt
On Sat, 13 Jan 2018 07:40:42 + KatolaZ wrote: > I don't see how what I said could make you considering getting back to > Debian, TBH :) It's very good to have backup plans, but choosing > Devuan is about going *forward*, not backward. YMMV though. The only reason I could imagine to go back f