On 23/12/16 12:11 PM, John Moniz via talk wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm backing up my system on a more regular basis and am trying to fine tune
> the
> files that I backup. I am looking for advice on what NOT to bother to backup
> on
> the /home directory.
>
> I am using rsync (took a long time
On 16-12-23 03:56 PM, William Park via talk wrote:
telinit 1
mount -o remount,ro /
before running 'dd'.
The only problem with doing a dd to backup is that it takes a lot longer
than doing an rsync. It also makes the machine unavailable for use during
the backup. Not a problem if you s
On 12/23/2016 04:58 PM, William Park via talk wrote:
On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 04:13:48PM -0500, Alvin Starr via talk wrote:
Yes. I do
telinit 1
mount -o remount,ro /
before running 'dd'.
Remounting read only will work but that is not what you said to do.
You will need to make sure a
On 12/23/2016 04:11 PM, James Knott via talk wrote:
On 12/23/2016 12:11 PM, John Moniz via talk wrote:
I'd love to exclude things that perhaps one would never use from a
backup to rebuild a system after an accidental clean wipe of all data.
Well, you could probably pass on /dev/null. ;-)
I a
On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 04:13:48PM -0500, Alvin Starr via talk wrote:
> > Yes. I do
> > telinit 1
> > mount -o remount,ro /
> > before running 'dd'.
>
> Remounting read only will work but that is not what you said to do.
> You will need to make sure all file systems are remounted read o
On 12/23/2016 03:56 PM, William Park via talk wrote:
On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 02:32:17PM -0500, Alvin Starr via talk wrote:
On 12/23/2016 02:21 PM, William Park via talk wrote:
My recommendations...
1. Backup entire disk to another disk, verbatim. That is,
dd if=/dev/sdX of=/dev/sdY b
On 12/23/2016 12:11 PM, John Moniz via talk wrote:
> I'd love to exclude things that perhaps one would never use from a
> backup to rebuild a system after an accidental clean wipe of all data.
Well, you could probably pass on /dev/null. ;-)
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On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 02:32:17PM -0500, Alvin Starr via talk wrote:
> On 12/23/2016 02:21 PM, William Park via talk wrote:
> > My recommendations...
> >
> > 1. Backup entire disk to another disk, verbatim. That is,
> > dd if=/dev/sdX of=/dev/sdY bs=10M
> >
> > First, you don't have t
On Fri, 23 Dec 2016 12:11:15 -0500
John Moniz via talk wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm backing up my system on a more regular basis and am trying to fine
> tune the files that I backup. I am looking for advice on what NOT to
> bother to backup on the /home directory.
John,
I back up my enti
On 12/23/2016 02:21 PM, William Park via talk wrote:
My recommendations...
1. Backup entire disk to another disk, verbatim. That is,
dd if=/dev/sdX of=/dev/sdY bs=10M
First, you don't have to waste time figuring out what to back up.
Second, if disk fails, you can just swap t
I use backintime for my local backups. It keeps history of files, so even
if you accidentally alter a file and discovers a month later, you can
recover the last version.
If you have a VPS somewhere, like me, you can use syncthing or owncloud
too. They are very good for backups.
I keep a local back
My recommendations...
1. Backup entire disk to another disk, verbatim. That is,
dd if=/dev/sdX of=/dev/sdY bs=10M
First, you don't have to waste time figuring out what to back up.
Second, if disk fails, you can just swap the disks, and copy over
only the new files since last
On 12/23/2016 12:11 PM, John Moniz via talk wrote:
Hi everyone,
I'm backing up my system on a more regular basis and am trying to fine
tune the files that I backup. I am looking for advice on what NOT to
bother to backup on the /home directory.
I am using rsync (took a long time and lots of
On 23 December 2016 at 12:11, John Moniz via talk wrote:
> I'm backing up my system on a more regular basis and am trying to fine tune
> the files that I backup. I am looking for advice on what NOT to bother to
> backup on the /home directory.
>
> I am using rsync (took a long time and lots of tri
Hi everyone,
I'm backing up my system on a more regular basis and am trying to fine
tune the files that I backup. I am looking for advice on what NOT to
bother to backup on the /home directory.
I am using rsync (took a long time and lots of trials to figure out the
man page - and still don't
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