[OCLUG-Tech] March Meeting: 2016-03-03

2016-02-29 Thread Murphy Scott
Location: Woodroffe Campus, Algonquin College - Building T, Room T-303 This month we will be having at least four talks - ipv6, scanning woes, panic bugs and free SSL certificates. As usual, there will be opportunity for questions as well as other topics after the talks. Next month (April) will

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] tar or rsync for backup greater than 50Gb

2016-02-29 Thread Bruce
Stephen, Thanks for the reply. I've just looked at rsnapshot and it looks good. I might give it a try. I think I'll steal your idea of "hourly backups to a local disk, and daily backups to a remote server via rsync over ssh" If you have a script you don't mind sharing shoot it over to me ei

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] tar or rsync for backup greater than 50Gb

2016-02-29 Thread Stephen Gregory
> On 16-02-28 09:10 PM, Bruce Harding wrote: >> >> The home server houses a photo gallery with 13000 pictures and a blog. >> Should the number of files have any bearing on the choice of backup? Your choice in backup should be based on ease of use and reliability first. Ease of use so that you use

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] tar or rsync for backup greater than 50Gb

2016-02-29 Thread Bruce Harding
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Re: [OCLUG-Tech] tar or rsync for backup greater than 50Gb

2016-02-29 Thread Bill Strosberg
On 16-02-28 09:10 PM, Bruce Harding wrote: Hello Bill long time no talk. I'm finally get around to making backups of my home computer and home server. the first script I'm looking at is creating backups on the machines which houses original files. It uses tar to do this. Next would be th