On Wed, May 09, 2018 at 12:33:40PM +0000, Rudolf Sykora wrote: > > So please describe more in detail what kind of backuping you want. > > I just want to regularly rsync /home to the "backup" partition > with some history (along the lines of > > https://netfuture.ch/2013/08/simple-versioned-timemachine-like-backup-using-rsync/ > ). > > This partition (or part of it) will later also be backed up to some > other machine. > > The partition will be mounted read-only most of the time; only for > back-up it will remounted.
So far a regular OpenBSD disklabel partition with OpenBSD filesystem fits the bill. > > I would prefer that the backup partition be readable / mountable from > other machines. That's why I tried a separate MBR partition rather > than an OpenBSD disklabel one. And there it got peculiar. What "other machines". What OS:es. What filesystem? How do you envision a separete MBR partition will help you with this? > > Ruda -- / Raimo Niskanen, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB
