Let me add some text I wrote for another place but that explains how things
would work:
1) The OpenSource definition http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition.php
section 9 makes it very clear that an OSS license must not restrict other
software and must not prevent to bundle different works
2010/8/17 Maximilian Bräutigam max-br...@gmx.de
You should backup all in / except
/tmp/*
/sys/*
/proc/*
/lost+found/*
/dev/*
Distfiles are saved outside the root and I can afford to rebuild world.
My
main concern was losing (gentoo) config files, speaking of which, I
remembered to back
On 17 August 2010 22:34, Enrico Weigelt weig...@metux.de wrote:
For things I'd like to keep an history (eg. /etc) I'm using git, and
pushing the repo to a remote server (denying non-fastfoward updates
there, so an theorectical highjacker cannot destroy my history)
Using git for /etc is a
On Tue, 17 Aug 2010 14:14:27 +0200, Maximilian Bräutigam wrote:
You should backup all in / except
/tmp/*
/sys/*
/proc/*
/lost+found/*
/dev/*
That backs up a lot of stuff that isn't needed. As long as you have /etc
and /var/lib you can recreate the system. Depending on space vs. time,
you
On 18 August 2010 14:34, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote:
On Tue, 17 Aug 2010 14:14:27 +0200, Maximilian Bräutigam wrote:
You should backup all in / except
/tmp/*
/sys/*
/proc/*
/lost+found/*
/dev/*
That backs up a lot of stuff that isn't needed. As long as you have /etc
On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 14:09 +0300, Nganon wrote:
On 17 August 2010 22:34, Enrico Weigelt weig...@metux.de wrote:
For things I'd like to keep an history (eg. /etc) I'm using
git, and
pushing the repo to a remote server (denying non-fastfoward
updates
On 08/18/2010 04:53 AM, Nganon wrote:
I did not know that. I was thinking of, in couple of months, buying a
notebook
with two HDDs with RAID1 installed and using the usb drive as a backup
destination. So if RAID got corruped, the backups, made since then,
would be
useless? How would you
On 18 August 2010 14:59, William Kenworthy bi...@iinet.net.au wrote:
On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 14:09 +0300, Nganon wrote:
On 17 August 2010 22:34, Enrico Weigelt weig...@metux.de wrote:
For things I'd like to keep an history (eg. /etc) I'm using
git, and
pushing
On 18 August 2010 17:53, Bill Longman bill.long...@gmail.com wrote:
On 08/18/2010 04:53 AM, Nganon wrote:
I did not know that. I was thinking of, in couple of months, buying a
notebook
with two HDDs with RAID1 installed and using the usb drive as a backup
destination. So if RAID got
On 08/18/2010 11:03 AM, Nganon wrote:
Clear now, thanks.
If you want a robust filesystem, look into ZFS/BTRFS.
AFAIK ZFS is unmaintained and BTRFS is not stable, am I wrong?
Not really. ZFS is only available on Solaris right now. I seem to
remember it was running on one of the
Bill Longman bill.long...@gmail.com wrote:
On 08/18/2010 11:03 AM, Nganon wrote:
Clear now, thanks.
If you want a robust filesystem, look into ZFS/BTRFS.
AFAIK ZFS is unmaintained and BTRFS is not stable, am I wrong?
Why do you believe ZFS is unmaintained?
Not really.
On 18 August 2010 21:37, Bill Longman bill.long...@gmail.com wrote:
On 08/18/2010 11:03 AM, Nganon wrote:
Clear now, thanks.
If you want a robust filesystem, look into ZFS/BTRFS.
AFAIK ZFS is unmaintained and BTRFS is not stable, am I wrong?
Not really. ZFS is only available
On 18 August 2010 21:49, Joerg Schilling
joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de wrote:
Bill Longman bill.long...@gmail.com wrote:
On 08/18/2010 11:03 AM, Nganon wrote:
Clear now, thanks.
If you want a robust filesystem, look into ZFS/BTRFS.
AFAIK ZFS is unmaintained and
On 08/18/2010 11:49 AM, Joerg Schilling wrote:
Bill Longman bill.long...@gmail.com wrote:
On 08/18/2010 11:03 AM, Nganon wrote:
Clear now, thanks.
If you want a robust filesystem, look into ZFS/BTRFS.
AFAIK ZFS is unmaintained and BTRFS is not stable, am I wrong?
Why do you
Nganon nganon+gen...@gmail.com wrote:
Not really. ZFS is only available on Solaris right now. I seem to
remember it was running on one of the BSD's, too, since it's a matter of
licensing that is the hurdle of greatest height. I've only played with
BTRFS on my dev box and the simple
Apparently, though unproven, at 20:49 on Wednesday 18 August 2010, Joerg
Schilling did opine thusly:
remember it was running on one of the BSD's, too, since it's a matter of
licensing that is the hurdle of greatest height. I've only played with
BTRFS on my dev box and the simple workout I
Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote:
ZFS has a very free license. This was the reason, why it could be ported to
the BSDs. So why do you believe there is a license hurdle?
You appear to not fully understand the licenses.
Well, I of course fully understand the licenses. It may
On 17 August 2010 00:37, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote:
On Monday 16 August 2010 11:30:36 Nganon wrote:
On 16 August 2010 11:36, Marco listwo...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 1:11 AM, Nganon
nganon+gen...@gmail.com nganon%2bgen...@gmail.com
nganon%2bgen...@gmail.com
On 17 August 2010 02:53, Thomas Yao t.yao...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 5:37 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote:
Not sure if it's in an overlay, but I don't think it's in portage.
Run eix -l backup and see how many back up tools and scripts pop up.
I have been using
Hi
Am 16.08.2010 01:11, schrieb Nganon:
Hello all,
My first post on the list. I thought I would start with something that I
started
to think of as 'essential' after losing 90GB of data. Now I have two main
questions in mind: what to and how to back up on gentoo most efficiently.
1.
Maximilian Bräutigam writes:
You should backup all in / except
/tmp/*
/sys/*
/proc/*
/lost+found/*
/dev/*
Attention here, you need at least the null and console entries in /dev, or
the system will not come up. I also have tty and tty1 in there, I think
those were neede for tuxonice.
* Nganon nganon+gen...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
My first post on the list. I thought I would start with something that I
started
to think of as 'essential' after losing 90GB of data. Now I have two main
questions in mind: what to and how to back up on gentoo most efficiently.
I'm using a little
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 1:11 AM, Nganon nganon+gen...@gmail.com wrote:
[...]
Here is what I wanna do. I want to have only one big backup for, say,
userA-2010.08.07.tgz and other small backup tars containing only the
files/folders that were modified since last update, 2010.08.07, as
On 16 August 2010 03:15, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote:
Nganon nganon+gen...@gmail.com nganon%2bgen...@gmail.com writes:
Hello all,
My first post on the list. I thought I would start with something
that I started
to think of as 'essential' after losing 90GB of data. Now I
On 16 August 2010 11:36, Marco listwo...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 1:11 AM, Nganon
nganon+gen...@gmail.comnganon%2bgen...@gmail.com
wrote:
[...]
Here is what I wanna do. I want to have only one big backup for, say,
userA-2010.08.07.tgz and other small backup tars
On Monday 16 August 2010 11:30:36 Nganon wrote:
On 16 August 2010 11:36, Marco listwo...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 1:11 AM, Nganon
nganon+gen...@gmail.comnganon%2bgen...@gmail.com
wrote:
[...]
Here is what I wanna do. I want to have only one big backup for, say,
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 5:37 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote:
Not sure if it's in an overlay, but I don't think it's in portage.
Run eix -l backup and see how many back up tools and scripts pop up.
I have been using tar, star and rsync. They all work and they can all make
Hello all,
My first post on the list. I thought I would start with something that I
started
to think of as 'essential' after losing 90GB of data. Now I have two main
questions in mind: what to and how to back up on gentoo most efficiently.
1. Apart from users' home directories and the
Nganon nganon+gen...@gmail.com writes:
Hello all,
My first post on the list. I thought I would start with something
that I started
to think of as 'essential' after losing 90GB of data. Now I have two
main questions in mind: what to and how to back up on gentoo most
efficiently.
1.
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