On Wed, 6 Sep 2023 22:52:59 -0400 Nick Holland <n...@holland-consulting.net> wrote:
> On 9/6/23 08:23, John Holland wrote: > > Janne- > > > > Thanks for all that useful information. > > > > others- this is a thinkpad, that's not on all the time, so a cron > > backup is not that good. I actually back up manually, currently > > using "borg" for that. I mostly just do email and web on it so > > there's probably nothing serious lost. In a few days I will have > > the external disk with the backup back here and I may see what I > > can find on it. My /home partition has a lot of data on it because > > I built an AWS Openbsd machine image on it. But it would be good to > > see whether my system is working correctly. > > Cats are fuzzy > Fire is hot > Journaling file systems are complicated > Backups are important. well, speaking about backups,what I (well, somewhat) miss on openbsd, is the ability to make a snapshot of filesystem, (in the style of freebsd mksnap). but I can live without it definitely. my sources are in git, my data backups live in borg, the system is subject to reinstall in case of disaster.
