Thanks for the feedback.
On Tue, 05 Nov 2019 23:35:05 +0100
Linux-Fan wrote:
> Charles Curley writes:
>
> > https://charlescurley.com/blog/posts/2019/Nov/02/backups-on-linux/index.html
> >
>
> [...]
>
> Thanks for sharing! I appreciate that I am not the only one with a
> backup system com
Charles Curley writes:
On Sat, 02 Nov 2019 20:24:52 +0100
Konstantin Nebel wrote:
[...]
> So now I am thinking. How should I approach backups. On windows it
> does magically backups and remind me when they didnt run for a while.
> I like that attitude.
>
> On linux with all that decision fr
On Sat, 02 Nov 2019 20:24:52 +0100
Konstantin Nebel wrote:
> Now i attached a 4 tb drive to my pi and I decided what the heck, why
> not doing backups now.
>
> So now I am thinking. How should I approach backups. On windows it
> does magically backups and remind me when they didnt run for a whil
> On linux with all that decision freedom it can be good and bad cause you have
> to think about things :D
All the answers I've seen mention the use of "cron" but I'm not sure
what they mean by that, nor am I sure what is your typical use of the
desktop (e.g. is it always ON?), so I think it's wor
> Suppose that you backup 2000 files in a day and inside this backup a chunk
> is deduped and referenced by 300 files. If the deduped chunk is broken
> I think you will lost it on 300 referenced files/chunks. This is not good
> for me.
I don't know what other backup software does, but at least `bu
On 04/11/19 20:43, deloptes wrote:
Alessandro Baggi wrote:
If I'm not wrong deduplication "is a technique for eliminating duplicate
copies of repeating data".
I'm not a borg expert and it performs deduplication on data chunk.
Suppose that you backup 2000 files in a day and inside this backup
On Mon, 4 Nov 2019 06:01:54 -1000
Joel Roth wrote:
> These days I use rsync with the --link-dest option to make
> complete Time-Machine(tm) style backups using hardlinks to
> avoid file duplication in the common case. In this
> scenario, the top-level directory is typically named based
> on date
On Mon, Nov 04, 2019, Charles Curley wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Nov 2019 06:01:54 -1000
> Joel Roth wrote:
>
> > These days I use rsync with the --link-dest option to make
> > complete Time-Machine(tm) style backups using hardlinks to
> > avoid file duplication in the common case. In this
> > scenario,
Alessandro Baggi wrote:
> If I'm not wrong deduplication "is a technique for eliminating duplicate
> copies of repeating data".
>
> I'm not a borg expert and it performs deduplication on data chunk.
>
> Suppose that you backup 2000 files in a day and inside this backup a
> chunk is deduped and r
On Sat, Nov 02, 2019, Konstantin Nebel wrote:
> So now I am thinking. How should I approach backups. On windows it does
> magically backups and remind me when they didnt run for a while. I like that
> attitude.
(...)
> I like to turn off
> my computer at night. So a backup running in night is not
On 04/11/19 15:41, deloptes wrote:
Not sure if true - for example you make daily, weekly and monthly backups
(classical) Lets focus on the daily part. On day 3 the files is broken.
You have to recover from day 2. The file is not broken for day 2 - correct?!
If I'm not wrong deduplication "is a
deloptes writes:
Alessandro Baggi wrote:
> Borg seems very promising but I performs only push request at the moment
> and I need pull request. It offers deduplication, encryption and much
> more.
>
> One word on deduplication: it is a great feature to save space, with
> deduplication compressio
Alessandro Baggi wrote:
> Borg seems very promising but I performs only push request at the moment
> and I need pull request. It offers deduplication, encryption and much
> more.
>
> One word on deduplication: it is a great feature to save space, with
> deduplication compression ops (that could r
On Sun, Nov 03, 2019 at 02:47:46AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
Just 4 or 5 days ago, I had to recover the linuxcnc configs from a backup
of the pi3, making a scratch dir here at home, then scanned my database
for the last level0 of the pi3b, pulled that out with amrecover then
copied what I needed
I'll respond on the issue of triggering the backup, rather than the
specific backup software itself, because my solution for triggering
is separate from the backup software I use (rdiff-backup).
I trigger (some) backup jobs via systemd units, that are triggered by
the insertion of my removeable
On 02/11/19 20:24, Konstantin Nebel wrote:
Hi,
this is basically a question, what you guys prefer and do. I have a Linux
destkop and recently I decided to buy a raspberry pi 4 (great device) and
already after a couple days I do not know how I lived without it. So why
Raspberrypi.
In the past I
On Sunday 03 November 2019 01:49:15 ghe wrote:
> > On Nov 2, 2019, at 05:42 PM, Linux-Fan wrote:
> >
> > Konstantin Nebel writes:
> >> this is basically a question, what you guys prefer and do. I have a
> >> Linux destkop and recently I decided to buy a raspberry pi 4 (great
> >> device) and
> >
> On Nov 2, 2019, at 05:42 PM, Linux-Fan wrote:
>
> Konstantin Nebel writes:
>
>> this is basically a question, what you guys prefer and do. I have a Linux
>> destkop and recently I decided to buy a raspberry pi 4 (great device) and
>
> [...]
>
>> Now i attached a 4 tb drive to my pi and I
On 3/11/19 5:24 am, Konstantin Nebel wrote:
Hi,
this is basically a question, what you guys prefer and do. I have a Linux
destkop and recently I decided to buy a raspberry pi 4 (great device) and
already after a couple days I do not know how I lived without it. So why
Raspberrypi.
In the past
On Sat, Nov 2, 2019, at 1:30 PM, Konstantin Nebel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > Anyway from my experience borg is the best and I can recommend it wormly.
>
> I appreciate you answering in the fullest how you do backups and I used borg
> in the past which I can recommend as well. But I really want to focu
Konstantin Nebel writes:
this is basically a question, what you guys prefer and do. I have a Linux
destkop and recently I decided to buy a raspberry pi 4 (great device) and
[...]
Now i attached a 4 tb drive to my pi and I decided what the heck, why not
doing backups now.
So now I am thinkin
On Sat, 02 Nov 2019 21:30:32 +0100
Konstantin Nebel wrote:
> But I really want to focus on how
> to trigger the backup in an automated way and not in which tool is
> recommended to use.
cron, unless the program you select has a built-in equivalent.
But it's hard to get good backups while the ma
Konstantin Nebel wrote:
>> Anyway from my experience borg is the best and I can recommend it wormly.
>
> I appreciate you answering in the fullest how you do backups and I used
> borg in the past which I can recommend as well. But I really want to focus
> on how to trigger the backup in an automa
On Sat, 2019-11-02 at 20:24 +0100, Konstantin Nebel wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> dual boot and Windows on default (for games, shame on me) and I might
> switch
> cause first Gaming on Linux is really becoming rly good and second I
> could buy
Missing out answers to your question :)
Yes Gaming on Linux is b
On 11/2/2019 3:24 PM, Konstantin Nebel wrote:
Whoever read till the end Im thankful and ready to hear your opinion.
I use restic (the static binaries from the Github release page, not the
Debian package which falls out of date too quickly) and invoke it from
crontab. On my LAN server, the sc
On Saturday 02 November 2019 16:30:32 Konstantin Nebel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > Anyway from my experience borg is the best and I can recommend it
> > wormly.
>
> I appreciate you answering in the fullest how you do backups and I
> used borg in the past which I can recommend as well. But I really want
>
Hi,
> Anyway from my experience borg is the best and I can recommend it wormly.
I appreciate you answering in the fullest how you do backups and I used borg
in the past which I can recommend as well. But I really want to focus on how
to trigger the backup in an automated way and not in which tool
Konstantin Nebel wrote:
> Whoever read till the end Im thankful and ready to hear your opinion.
There are many good solutions out there. I can not say anything about your
specific use case. Usually you would do a snapshot of the partition and
backup, but I am not so far here. I do classical file
Hi,
this is basically a question, what you guys prefer and do. I have a Linux
destkop and recently I decided to buy a raspberry pi 4 (great device) and
already after a couple days I do not know how I lived without it. So why
Raspberrypi.
In the past I decided not to do backups on purpose. I decid
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