On Wed May 21, 2025 at 10:09 AM BST, Dan Purgert wrote:
As far as I know namespaces (read: poorly), the backup script would
need to execute setns(2) in order to join the previously created
namespace for your "/backup" target. But, I've only used them with
networking devices, so there may be ot
On Wed May 21, 2025 at 10:05 AM BST, Nicolas George wrote:
Does it mean you like your backup drive to be permanently plugged to
the computer? That protects you from hardware failures and human
mistakes, but not from large physical damage or theft.
This drive is permanently connected to this co
On Wed, May 21, 2025 at 11:38:38AM +0200, Nicolas George wrote:
> to...@tuxteam.de (HE12025-05-21):
> > Actually, this makes a lot of sense (well, nearly): keep backup constantly
> > synced, unmount/mount only on media rotation, carry freshly unmounted
> > medium to safe place.
>
> It only becomes
to...@tuxteam.de (HE12025-05-21):
> Actually, this makes a lot of sense (well, nearly): keep backup constantly
> synced, unmount/mount only on media rotation, carry freshly unmounted
> medium to safe place.
It only becomes an effective backup at the time it is unmounted to move
the medium to the s
On Wed, May 21, 2025 at 11:05:37AM +0200, Nicolas George wrote:
> Jonathan Dowland (HE12025-05-21):
> > I'd like /backup permanently
> > mounted
>
> Does it mean you like your backup drive to be permanently plugged to the
> computer? That protects you from h
Jonathan Dowland (HE12025-05-21):
> I'd like /backup permanently
> mounted
Does it mean you like your backup drive to be permanently plugged to the
computer? That protects you from hardware failures and human mistakes,
but not from large physical damage or
On May 21, 2025, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> On Tue May 20, 2025 at 3:50 PM BST, Dan Purgert wrote:
> > I used /mnt/backup because I only wanted the partition mounted while the
> > backup was running (it was one of several on that physical drive). The
> > backup script did the mount/rsync/unmount as
On Tue May 20, 2025 at 3:50 PM BST, Dan Purgert wrote:
I used /mnt/backup because I only wanted the partition mounted while
the backup was running (it was one of several on that physical drive).
The backup script did the mount/rsync/unmount as part of the
execution. Really, the only point of th
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