Re: increment backup of home dir

2025-03-15 Thread tomas
On Sat, Mar 15, 2025 at 08:36:48PM +, Andy Smith wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, Mar 15, 2025 at 01:18:45PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: > > On 3/15/25 12:50, Tim Woodall wrote: > > > git fails to preserve ownership, permissions or timestamps. While this > > > may not be relevant to your usecase,

Re: increment backup of home dir

2025-03-15 Thread tomas
On Sat, Mar 15, 2025 at 07:50:27PM +, Tim Woodall wrote: > On Fri, 14 Mar 2025, Russell L. Harris wrote: > > > 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 kee

Re: increment backup of home dir

2025-03-15 Thread Ryan Nowakowski
I use rdiff-backup. It does incremental backups. On March 14, 2025 1:07:53 AM CDT, 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. >

Re: NT_STATUS_NOT_FOUND

2025-03-15 Thread Mike O'Toole
William, In Windows the 'File Sharing' must be enabled (in Control Panel/Settings) to allow SMB thru the Windows firewall. If there is an Uncomplicated User Firewall running on Debian it must be set to allow TCP on port 445. The app GUFW is used to manage it. The ID used to log into a Windo

Re: increment backup of home dir

2025-03-15 Thread David Christensen
On 3/15/25 13:36, Andy Smith wrote: On Sat, Mar 15, 2025 at 01:18:45PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: I am curious -- if I make my /etc directory tree into a version control system working directory (Git or otherwise), please explain how this would be catastrophic. /etc has things in it which

NT_STATUS_NOT_FOUND

2025-03-15 Thread William Torrez Corea
I try access from Debian to file of Windows with the following command but i get the following error message: do_connect: Connection to DESKTOP failed (Error NT_STATUS_NOT_FOUND) I can list of the shares available with the following command: smbclient -L IP The service smbd is active without

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

2025-03-15 Thread Chris Green
Greg wrote: > On 2025-03-15, Chris Green wrote: > > > > Thanks for all the help everyone, it made me fairly sure most cameras > > would be likely to work OK. I chose the above one (apart from Amazon > > next day delivery) because it is reasonably high definition, it has a > > USB-A plug to go st

Re: increment backup of home dir

2025-03-15 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Sat, Mar 15, 2025 at 01:18:45PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: > On 3/15/25 12:50, Tim Woodall wrote: > > git fails to preserve ownership, permissions or timestamps. While this > > may not be relevant to your usecase, for example backing up /etc would > > be catastrophic (which is why we h

Re: increment backup of home dir

2025-03-15 Thread David Christensen
On 3/15/25 12:50, Tim Woodall wrote: git fails to preserve ownership, permissions or timestamps. While this may not be relevant to your usecase, for example backing up /etc would be catastrophic (which is why we have etckeeper) I am curious -- if I make my /etc directory tree into a version c

Re: Doesn't boot into GUI after Trixie upgrade

2025-03-15 Thread David Wright
On Sat 15 Mar 2025 at 18:13:12 (+), halbtaxabo-...@yahoo.com wrote: > On Saturday, 15 March 2025 at 15:41:37 WET, David Wright wrote: > > On Sat 15 Mar 2025 at 15:01:25 (+), halbtaxabo-...@yahoo.com wrote: > > I upgraded from bookworm to trixie a couple of weeks ago (on an ordinary > >

Re: increment backup of home dir

2025-03-15 Thread Tim Woodall
On Fri, 14 Mar 2025, Russell L. Harris wrote: 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

Re: Doesn't boot into GUI after Trixie upgrade

2025-03-15 Thread Eben King
On 3/15/25 11:01, halbtaxabo-...@yahoo.com wrote: I upgraded from bookworm to trixie a couple of weeks ago (on an ordinary AMD64 desktop running xfce and lightDM).After the upgrade it no longer boots into the GUI. I have to login and then run startx. Why? What's the recommended way make it

Re: Doesn't boot into GUI after Trixie upgrade

2025-03-15 Thread halbtaxabo-...@yahoo.com
On Saturday, 15 March 2025 at 15:41:37 WET, David Wright wrote: On Sat 15 Mar 2025 at 15:01:25 (+), halbtaxabo-...@yahoo.com wrote: > I upgraded from bookworm to trixie a couple of weeks ago (on an ordinary > AMD64 desktop running xfce and lightDM).After the upgrade it no longer

Re: Accessing individual disk's SMART diagnostics behing a physical RAID

2025-03-15 Thread Erwan David
On Thu, Mar 13, 2025 at 02:08:21PM CET, Yassine Chaouche said: > Le 3/12/25 à 23:11, Michael Stone a écrit : > > Two of the drives are dead, you're not going to see anything from them > > So this means I can't rely on smartctl to list physical disks, > which implies that, > for servers I didn't

Re: increment backup of home dir

2025-03-15 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> 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 compression. 4 backups of 32G /+/home of my old > netbook created every month stored in ~11GB backup directory. > Slower than rsync, eat

Re: Could you recommend me a mature fuse filesystem which uses a single file as backing storage, and could self-growing?

2025-03-15 Thread Stefan Monnier
> visible for Windows. The awful part is that, > I need to run a commercial software on > the Windows system of that device, and that > commercial software frequently performs > full-disk scan 'for the sake of user security'. If at all possible, you might be better off turning the Windows part int

Re: web browser recommendation

2025-03-15 Thread Ken Burns
On 3/9/25 1:05 AM, Christopher David Howie wrote: On 3/6/25 4:25 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: I ended up installing Brave.  Sure, it's Chromium-based, and it will eventually drop support for Manifest v2 extensions, including uBlock Origin (even though it's supported right now).  But it has its own b

Re: Kernel not upgrading in all systems

2025-03-15 Thread Gary Dale
On 2025-02-27 15:59, Gary Dale wrote: On 2025-02-14 22:00, Michael Stone wrote: On Fri, Feb 14, 2025 at 09:42:10AM -0500, Gary Dale wrote: All 3 systems have the linux-image-amd64 metapackage installed. What does apt show -a linux-image-amd64 | grep -e Version -e Sources -e Depends return o

Re: increment backup of home dir

2025-03-15 Thread Greg
On 2025-03-14, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > 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: I was looking for *backup21* rat

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

2025-03-15 Thread Charlie Gibbs
On Thu Mar 13 16:49:25 2025 "James H. H. Lampert" wrote: > On 3/13/25 12:15 PM, David Wright wrote: > >> OTOH most people will have come across endoscopes, usually in the >> context of colonoscopies and suchlike, hence your "scary". > > Why would anybody find a colonoscopy scary? > > Just geek o

Re: yt-dlp search syntax?

2025-03-15 Thread Darac Marjal
On 12/03/2025 22:02, David Wright wrote: I typed caught a lite sneeze into google and got four hits; the top one was weWtRqoSUOI (official video), wL71FOgp1a4 (2016 remaster), BVef_GdeBs8 (looks like a disc), and SIsXdEw1hIU (Live 1998). Clicking on Videos at the top of the page gives me tho

idle-python3.11 missing?

2025-03-15 Thread Lee
Am I doing something wrong or is idle-python3.11 really missing from the repository? I try to install it using synaptic and get a popup saying 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

Re: increment backup of home dir

2025-03-15 Thread Jonathan Dowland
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 Git repository format. Can bup purge old backups? --

Re: increment backup of home dir

2025-03-15 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hi, backup2l is simple and has been reliable for me for years. Cheers, Jerome On 14/03/2025 07:07, 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 y

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

2025-03-15 Thread debian-user
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 as > 'endoscopes' would make looking around down there more possible. > > As I

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

2025-03-15 Thread Greg
On 2025-03-15, Chris Green wrote: > > Thanks for all the help everyone, it made me fairly sure most cameras > would be likely to work OK. I chose the above one (apart from Amazon > next day delivery) because it is reasonably high definition, it has a > USB-A plug to go straight into my laptop and

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

2025-03-15 Thread Chris Green
Chris Green wrote: > Joe wrote: > > On Wed, 12 Mar 2025 20:43:12 -0600 > > Charles Curley wrote: > > > > > On Wed, 12 Mar 2025 14:26:32 + > > > Chris Green wrote: > > > > > > > I want to buy one of the cheap (£2.50 to £15) USB endoscope cameras > > > > so I can poke around and see things

Re: Doesn't boot into GUI after Trixie upgrade

2025-03-15 Thread David Wright
On Sat 15 Mar 2025 at 15:01:25 (+), halbtaxabo-...@yahoo.com wrote: > I upgraded from bookworm to trixie a couple of weeks ago (on an ordinary > AMD64 desktop running xfce and lightDM).After the upgrade it no longer boots > into the GUI. I have to login and then run startx. Why? What's the >

Re: idle-python3.11 missing?

2025-03-15 Thread Lee
On Fri, Mar 14, 2025 at 1:02 PM Thomas Schmitt wrote: > > 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 >

Re: Doesn't boot into GUI after Trixie upgrade

2025-03-15 Thread Richmond
"halbtaxabo-...@yahoo.com" writes: > I upgraded from bookworm to trixie a couple of weeks ago (on an > ordinary AMD64 desktop running xfce and lightDM). > After the upgrade it no longer boots into the GUI. I have to login > and then run startx. Why? What's the recommended way make it boot > into

Re: Kernel not upgrading in all systems

2025-03-15 Thread David Wright
> > > On Fri, Feb 14, 2025 at 09:42:10AM -0500, Gary Dale wrote: > > > > All 3 systems have the linux-image-amd64 metapackage installed. On Sat 15 Mar 2025 at 10:44:40 (-0400), Gary Dale wrote: > After today's upgrades, I note that RM1 showed these autoremove > messages "Removing linux-headers-6.1

Re: format flowed - wrapping text in editor

2025-03-15 Thread Tim Woodall
On Sat, 15 Mar 2025, Eben King wrote: On 3/15/25 05:49, Tim Woodall wrote: This means that format-flowed emails wrap at 72 characters on my screen in alpine but when I reply to one of these emails the resulting text gets wrapped at column 80 in vim. I can then tell vim to reflow to get back

Re: Doesn't boot into GUI after Trixie upgrade

2025-03-15 Thread Hans
Am Samstag, 15. März 2025, 16:01:25 CET schrieb halbtaxabo-...@yahoo.com: > I upgraded from bookworm to trixie a couple of weeks ago (on an ordinary > AMD64 desktop running xfce and lightDM).After the upgrade it no longer > boots into the GUI. I have to login and then run startx. Why? What's the >

Doesn't boot into GUI after Trixie upgrade

2025-03-15 Thread halbtaxabo-...@yahoo.com
I upgraded from bookworm to trixie a couple of weeks ago (on an ordinary AMD64 desktop running xfce and lightDM).After the upgrade it no longer boots into the GUI. I have to login and then run startx. Why? What's the recommended way make it boot into the GUI? Another annoyance is that after boot

Re: format flowed - wrapping text in editor

2025-03-15 Thread Eben King
On 3/15/25 05:49, Tim Woodall wrote: This means that format-flowed emails wrap at 72 characters on my screen in alpine but when I reply to one of these emails the resulting text gets wrapped at column 80 in vim. I can then tell vim to reflow to get back to 72 character widths but is there a

Re: idle-python3.11 missing?

2025-03-15 Thread Lee
On Fri, Mar 14, 2025 at 11:40 PM Max Nikulin wrote: > > 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%2bdeb

Re: increment backup of home dir

2025-03-15 Thread Henrik Ahlgren
"Russell L. Harris" writes: > = With git, I can do a hundred backups in a morning or afternoon > session without worry about consumption of disk space. I am not > concerned with an orderly and uncluttered commit record; my concern is > the ability to recover. Git is an awesome tool that can be

format flowed - wrapping text in editor

2025-03-15 Thread Tim Woodall
Hi, I have the following setting in my (remote) pinerc: Viewer Margin Right = 72c Not sure it's relevant but in vim I have textwidth=72 formatoptions=tcqlw This means that format-flowed emails wrap at 72 characters on my screen in alpine but when I reply to one of these emails t

Re: increment backup of home dir

2025-03-15 Thread jeremy ardley
On 15/3/25 17:22, Henrik Ahlgren wrote: Moreover, storing Git repositories on the same storage device as your original files only safeguards your data against your own mistakes. This is analogous to the (opposite) misconception that RAID systems serve as a backup solution; they only protect aga