On Thu, Aug 06, 2015 at 01:13:57PM -0500, martin McCormick wrote: > The daily system backups had failed for several days so it was > time to investigate and I found that the time of death was after > upgrading squeeze to wheezy. > > Pdumpfs is useful because each day's new backup consists > of hard links to all previous files plus any new files that have > been written since the previous backup. > > After the upgrade, pdumpfs exits with errors related to > ruby libraries and it's game over. > > To recover files, one mounts the backup medium, cd's to > the year/month/day/home/user/files and simply copies them > wherever they need to be. It's simple and most important, one can > stick a suitably-scized thumb drive in to a usb port and forget > about it until it is needed. > > Such programs as dump, restore and rsync are fine but need more > media and attention for use as backups. > > The description of pdumpfs describes it's backup strategy > as similar to something called plan9. > > All constructive suggestions are greatly appreciated.
That sounds very much like rsnapshot. -dsr- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150806183140.gb22...@randomstring.org
