Re: increment backup of home dir

2025-03-14 Thread David Christensen
On 3/13/25 23:07, tim wade wrote: Hello I plan to make increment backup for my home dir. It's currently in the size of 1xx GB. besides rsync, do you know any other software/service for increment backup? Thank you. "Incremental backup" implies "full backup" -- e.g. make full backups on Sund

Re: idle-python3.11 missing?

2025-03-14 Thread Max Nikulin
On 14/03/2025 22:32, Lee wrote: Am I doing something wrong or is idle-python3.11 really missing from the repository? [...] W: Failed to fetch https://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/p/python3.11/idle-python3.11_3.11.2-6%2bdeb12u4_all.deb 404 Not Found [IP: 2a04:4e42:77::644 443] apt polic

Re: increment backup of home dir

2025-03-14 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Fri, Mar 14, 2025 at 07:53:09PM -0400, Default User wrote: On 2025-03-14 [FR], Russell Harris wrote: I use git. I keep terminal open running a ssh connection open to the backup system. Whenever I wish to save the state of the system, I switch to the terminal and execute git commit. To chec

Re: Does anyone use a USB 'endoscope' on Debian, which ones should work OK?

2025-03-14 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Friday 14 March 2025 08:28:30 am debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > Chris Green wrote: > > > I don't want to look at the outside of the hull, I want to look > > inside right down in the bilges under the engine. This is quite > > inaccessible and one of the cameras that are advertised mostly

Re: increment backup of home dir

2025-03-14 Thread Default User
On 2025-03-14 [FR], Russell Harris wrote: I use git. I keep terminal open running a ssh connection open to the backup system. Whenever I wish to save the state of the system, I switch to the terminal and execute git commit. To check the previous state of a file, Emacs provides git-timemachine.

Re: increment backup of home dir

2025-03-14 Thread Chris Green
tim wade wrote: > Hello > > I plan to make increment backup for my home dir. > It's currently in the size of 1xx GB. > > besides rsync, do you know any other software/service for increment > backup? > Most of the replies so far seem to have ignored 'increment[al]'. While complete backups are s

Re: increment backup of home dir

2025-03-14 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello, On 14/03/2025 14:39, Greg wrote: On 2025-03-14, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hi, backup2l is simple and has been reliable for me for years. Is that a Debian package? Yep, here is its tracker page: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/backup2l Cheers, Jerome

Re: increment backup of home dir

2025-03-14 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Yes, it has `bup prune-older`. > I must admit I don't use it, but I'd expect it to be fairly > costly/slow. The thing I do use and like very much is `bup get` which transfers backups between two repositories. I use it for off-site backups, and compared to my previous Rsync based backups (where

Re: increment backup of home dir

2025-03-14 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Fri, Mar 14, 2025 at 02:07:53PM +0800, tim wade wrote: I plan to make increment backup for my home dir. It's currently in the size of 1xx GB. I use git. I keep terminal open running a ssh connection open to the backup system. Whenever I wish to save the state of the system, I switch to the

Re: increment backup of home dir

2025-03-14 Thread Henrik Ahlgren
Stefan Monnier writes: > I haven't actually tried Borg, but I'm surprised by "slower than rsync, > eat more cpu" because I'd expect it to perform similarly to Bup, and > (for my use case at least) Bup performs incremental backups > significantly faster and using less CPU (especially on the server

Re: increment backup of home dir

2025-03-14 Thread Stefan Monnier
Jonathan Dowland [2025-03-14 22:03:21] wrote: > On Fri Mar 14, 2025 at 9:14 PM GMT, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> I use Bup, which provides a fairly similar featureset to Borg (tho >> doesn't support encryption yet). AFAIK the main difference is that >> instead of its own archive format, Bup uses the G

Re: increment backup of home dir

2025-03-14 Thread Nicolas George
David Christensen (HE12025-03-14): > "Incremental backup" implies "full backup" -- e.g. make full backups on > Sunday nights and make incremental backups Monday through Saturday nights, > etc.. Or a full backup in 2025 and the next one in 3025, which is functionally equivalent to no full backup af

Re: idle-python3.11 missing?

2025-03-14 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Lee wrote: > Am I doing something wrong or is idle-python3.11 really missing from > the repository? The whole python3.11 is out of work. https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/python3.11 says: "package is gone" and "There are 5 open security issues in sid." "There are 2 open security issues

Re: increment backup of home dir

2025-03-14 Thread Hans
> A tool that cannot be automated is not a backup tool. > > Corollary: a GUI-only tool is not a backup tool. > > Regards, You are making it too easy for you. A tool, than can be configured with a GUI can of course run automated. Ask Microsoft or Apple! But there are also tools, which are only

Re: increment backup of home dir

2025-03-14 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, 14 Mar 2025 14:07:53 +0800 tim wade wrote: > I plan to make increment backup for my home dir. > It's currently in the size of 1xx GB. > > besides rsync, do you know any other software/service for increment > backup? I use and recommend amanda and rsnapshot, both already mentioned. If y

Re: increment backup of home dir

2025-03-14 Thread Chris Green
gene heskett wrote: > > That sounds most interesting Chris. Something that can work as you work > w/o interfering with your work. > Exactly! For example one can sometimes get in a real mess editing a file and you want to get back to where you were an hour, or a few hours ago. Look in the hourl

Re: increment backup of home dir

2025-03-14 Thread Greg
On 2025-03-14, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Hi, > > backup2l is simple and has been reliable for me for years. Is that a Debian package?

Re: Does anyone use a USB 'endoscope' on Debian, which ones should work OK?

2025-03-14 Thread Greg
On 2025-03-13, Chris Green wrote: > > As I said before the only reason I used the word endoscope was that > it's the best way to actually get hits on the type of device I'm > after. Another search term that can work is 'inspection camera'. The only other term I've managed to discover would be "b

Re: Does anyone use a USB 'endoscope' on Debian, which ones should work OK?

2025-03-14 Thread Greg
On 2025-03-13, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > Greg wrote: >> On 2025-03-13, David Wright wrote: >> > >> > OTOH most people will have come across endoscopes, usually in the >> > context of colonoscopies and suchlike, hence your "scary". >> >> I've never come across one for the general pub

Re: Does anyone use a USB 'endoscope' on Debian, which ones should work OK?

2025-03-14 Thread Greg
On 2025-03-13, Chris Green wrote: > Greg wrote: >> On 2025-03-13, David Wright wrote: >> > >> > OTOH most people will have come across endoscopes, usually in the >> > context of colonoscopies and suchlike, hence your "scary". >> >> I've never come across one for the general public, but then it

kwin_wayland crash today on Trixie after upgrade (kwin package)

2025-03-14 Thread Rafał Lichwała
On Debian Trixie we have a huge package upgrade today (~325 packages). I do "apt full-upgrade" every day, so this pack has arrived over last day. One of them is "kwin" package which migrated to testing today: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/kwin After "apt full-upgrade" and "reboot" system start

Re: increment backup of home dir

2025-03-14 Thread Nicolas George
Hans (HE12025-03-14): > Depends on, what you prefer: in console, or with GUIn as conjob or whatever A tool that cannot be automated is not a backup tool. Corollary: a GUI-only tool is not a backup tool. Regards, -- Nicolas George

Re: increment backup of home dir

2025-03-14 Thread Loris Bennett
Chris Green writes: > tim wade wrote: >> Hello >> >> I plan to make increment backup for my home dir. >> It's currently in the size of 1xx GB. >> >> besides rsync, do you know any other software/service for increment >> backup? >> > Most of the replies so far seem to have ignored 'increment[

Re: increment backup of home dir

2025-03-14 Thread gene heskett
On 3/14/25 05:40, Chris Green wrote: tim wade wrote: Hello I plan to make increment backup for my home dir. It's currently in the size of 1xx GB. besides rsync, do you know any other software/service for increment backup? Most of the replies so far seem to have ignored 'increment[al]'. Wh

Re: increment backup of home dir

2025-03-14 Thread Hans
Depends on, what you prefer: in console, or with GUIn as conjob or whatever There is "borgbackup2" in my mind, as well as "backintime-qt" (for wide ways of settings), and for the easiest way, I suggest "deja-dup". Hans

Re: increment backup of home dir

2025-03-14 Thread debian-user
Harri Suutari wrote: > On 14/03/2025 08.07, tim wade wrote: > > > > besides rsync, do you know any other software/service for increment > > backup? > > Dirvish - "Disk based virtual image network backup system." > >     Dirvish can create user browseable (daily) backup directories. I use di

Re: Please send more info (Was: Debian-live can not be build missing package)

2025-03-14 Thread Roland Clobus
Hello Hans, I've found the original thread now at debian-user (https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2025/03/msg00055.html). On 05/03/2025 19:28, Hans wrote: By the way: I purged everything and tried "lb config --distribution bookworm" which created a fully new "~/live-build-config/" tree. Th

Re: increment backup of home dir

2025-03-14 Thread Harri Suutari
On 14/03/2025 08.07, tim wade wrote: besides rsync, do you know any other software/service for increment backup? Dirvish - "Disk based virtual image network backup system."     Dirvish can create user browseable (daily) backup directories. Duplicity - "Encrypted incremental backup to local

Re: increment backup of home dir

2025-03-14 Thread Chris Green
Nicolas George wrote: > tim wade (HE12025-03-14): > > besides rsync, do you know any other software/service for increment backup? > > Ahem. rsync is not a backup tool. > > rsync can be *part of* a backup tool, for example in rsnapshot, or > manually with filesystem snapshots, but rsync alone doe

Re: increment backup of home dir

2025-03-14 Thread Henrik Ahlgren
"Gareth Evans" writes: > It's not truly "incremental", though combines compression, > deduplication and optional encryption, which may improve on that. Not "incremental" in the traditional tape-backup sense, which requires periodic full backups. A closer term might be "incremental forever" (like

Re: increment backup of home dir

2025-03-14 Thread Loris Bennett
Hi Tim, tim wade writes: > Hello > > I plan to make increment backup for my home dir. > It's currently in the size of 1xx GB. > > besides rsync, do you know any other software/service for increment > backup? > > Thank you. I have a Raspberry Pi running Nextcloud and so have my important data bo

Re: increment backup of home dir

2025-03-14 Thread Nicolas George
tim wade (HE12025-03-14): > besides rsync, do you know any other software/service for increment backup? Ahem. rsync is not a backup tool. rsync can be *part of* a backup tool, for example in rsnapshot, or manually with filesystem snapshots, but rsync alone does not allow you to recover a file you

Re: increment backup of home dir

2025-03-14 Thread Tim Woodall
On Fri, 14 Mar 2025, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Fri, Mar 14, 2025 at 2:08?AM tim wade wrote: I plan to make increment backup for my home dir. It's currently in the size of 1xx GB. besides rsync, do you know any other software/service for increment backup? I use Duplicity to backup a webserve

Re: increment backup of home dir

2025-03-14 Thread Gareth Evans
Hi Tim, Borg is perhaps worth a mention. https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/ It's not truly "incremental", though combines compression, deduplication and optional encryption, which may improve on that. $ sudo borg info @.rsync.net:home::d14 Archive name: d14 ... Time (start): Fri, 20

Re: increment backup of home dir

2025-03-14 Thread Stanislav Vlasov
пт, 14 мар. 2025 г. в 11:08, tim wade : > I plan to make increment backup for my home dir. > It's currently in the size of 1xx GB. > > besides rsync, do you know any other software/service for increment > backup? I use borg. It stores files in its own archive format with deduplication and compres

kdevtmpfsi question

2025-03-14 Thread tim wade
18817 user 20 0 3075708 2.3g 0 S 392.7 29.6 84:30.28 kdevtmpfsi As you see above (top output), kdevtmpfsi consumes 2.3g Ram and a lot of CPU (392%). What's it then? Thank you in advance.

Re: increment backup of home dir

2025-03-14 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
On Fri, Mar 14, 2025 at 2:08 AM tim wade wrote: > Hello > > I plan to make increment backup for my home dir. > It's currently in the size of 1xx GB. > > besides rsync, do you know any other software/service for increment > backup? > chiark-backup and amanda both work well. Chiark is good for a s