Re: better back-up?

2025-08-25 Thread Tim via users
Tim: > > In either case, once you put any drive in a case (pun intended), you > > are reliant on that enclosure supporting SMART. Some USB enclosures do > > not, they are a barrier to direct access to the drive needed for SMART > > interrogation. home user: > Thank-you, Tim. > Is the last paragra

Re: better back-up?

2025-08-25 Thread home user via users
On 8/25/2025 5:55 PM, Go Canes wrote: On Mon, Aug 25, 2025 at 1:25 PM home user via users wrote: On 8/23/2025 1:22 PM, Go Canes wrote: (snip) If I didn't need to support Windows I would have probably gone with a Linux-only solution.] such as? What would have been your Linux-only choice? S

Re: better back-up?

2025-08-25 Thread home user via users
On 8/23/2025 9:09 PM, Tim via users wrote: On Fri, 2025-08-22 at 11:54 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: The number one rule of backups: if it's not automated then it's a problem, not a solution. I use Borg (via Borgmatic) in a nightly script to backup what I care about. I've never lost data i

Re: better back-up?

2025-08-25 Thread home user via users
On 8/23/2025 8:59 PM, Tim wrote: Tim: Personally, I still have more faith in harddrives than SSDs for data. home user: Why? I'm not skeptical; this is a sincere question. My sense is that with a hard drive, there's a real chance of getting advance warning (via S.M.A.R.T.) when it's near fai

Re: better back-up?

2025-08-25 Thread Go Canes
On Mon, Aug 25, 2025 at 1:25 PM home user via users wrote: > > > On 8/23/2025 1:22 PM, Go Canes wrote: > > (snip) If I didn't > > need to support Windows I would have probably gone with a Linux-only > > solution.] > such as? What would have been your Linux-only choice? Since I needed to support

Re: ffsubsync installation

2025-08-25 Thread Jerry James
On Mon, Aug 25, 2025 at 3:53 PM Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > ffsubsync (https://github.com/smacke/ffsubsync) is an interesting tool > for synchronizing subtitle files for videos in a variety of languages. > It's written in Python but there doesn't appear to be an RPM anywhere I > can find, and my

ffsubsync installation

2025-08-25 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
ffsubsync (https://github.com/smacke/ffsubsync) is an interesting tool for synchronizing subtitle files for videos in a variety of languages. It's written in Python but there doesn't appear to be an RPM anywhere I can find, and my attempts to install it using pip in Fedora trip up on a missing comp

Re: Running script after resuming suspend

2025-08-25 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 8/25/25 1:02 PM, Geoffrey Leach wrote: Placing a shell script in /usr/lib/systemd/system-sleep seems to work, although that's against the rules. Should that no longer work I have your approach to try. Many thanks. It's not recommended, although that's the only way to do it. In this case, t

Re: Running script after resuming suspend

2025-08-25 Thread Geoffrey Leach
On Mon, 25 Aug 2025 12:37:59 -0700 "Doug H." wrote: > On Sun, Aug 24, 2025, at 8:04 AM, Geoffrey Leach wrote: > > I need to restart a process after suspend > > > > As root, I created an executable script in > > /usr/lib/systemd/system-sleep: > > It don't see resolution on this yet, so I can ad

Re: Running script after resuming suspend

2025-08-25 Thread Doug H.
On Sun, Aug 24, 2025, at 8:04 AM, Geoffrey Leach wrote: > I need to restart a process after suspend > > As root, I created an executable script in > /usr/lib/systemd/system-sleep: It don't see resolution on this yet, so I can add... This is the way I *used* to do this, but maybe that stopped work

Re: better back-up?

2025-08-25 Thread home user via users
On 8/23/2025 8:29 PM, Tim wrote: Tim: When looking at speeds, don't forget to check whether you're being quoted megabits or megabytes per second. home user: 'B' (upper case) means bytes. 'b' (lower case) means bits. If I'm wrong, tell me! Correct, but doesn't always mean that someone else ha

Re: better back-up?

2025-08-25 Thread home user via users
On 8/23/2025 1:22 PM, Go Canes wrote: On Sat, Aug 23, 2025 at 1:53 PM home user via users wrote: I'm now thinking 3 kinds of back-up: * incremental personal data back-ups, keep the 3 most recent, in-house. already doing this, but needs improvement. * larger semi-annual back-ups, all personal d

Re: Rebooting after power off

2025-08-25 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 8/25/25 12:08 AM, Patrick Dupre via users wrote: Hello, During years, after I turned off (from the gnome interface) my PC, and then switching off the mains, I used to restart the PC by just turning on the mains, the (auto) rebooting process has fine, but now after I did not use the PC during

Re: Rebooting after power off

2025-08-25 Thread Patrick Dupre via users
> Subject: Re: Rebooting after power off > > On 25 Aug 2025 at 9:08, Patrick Dupre via users wrote: > > To: fedora > Subject: Rebooting after power off > Date sent:Mon, 25 Aug 2025 09:08:40 +0200 > Send reply to:Community support for Fedora user

Re: Rebooting after power off

2025-08-25 Thread George N. White III
On Mon, Aug 25, 2025 at 4:08 AM Patrick Dupre via users < users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > Hello, > > During years, after I turned off (from the gnome interface) my PC, and then > switching off the mains, I used to restart the PC by just turning on the > mains, > the (auto) rebooting proces

Re: Rebooting after power off

2025-08-25 Thread George N. White III
On Mon, Aug 25, 2025 at 4:54 AM Tim via users wrote: > On Mon, 2025-08-25 at 09:08 +0200, Patrick Dupre via users wrote: > > I have to push the switch ON/OFF of the PC to enter into > > the booting process (the PC does not start by itself). > > I though that it was may be due to a PC flat battery

Re: Rebooting after power off

2025-08-25 Thread Michael D. Setzer II via users
On 25 Aug 2025 at 9:08, Patrick Dupre via users wrote: To: fedora Subject:Rebooting after power off Date sent: Mon, 25 Aug 2025 09:08:40 +0200 Send reply to: Community support for Fedora users From: Patrick Dupre via us

Re: Rebooting after power off

2025-08-25 Thread Tim via users
On Mon, 2025-08-25 at 09:08 +0200, Patrick Dupre via users wrote: > I have to push the switch ON/OFF of the PC to enter into > the booting process (the PC does not start by itself). > I though that it was may be due to a PC flat battery that I finally changed. > I checked the starting booting from

Rebooting after power off

2025-08-25 Thread Patrick Dupre via users
Hello, During years, after I turned off (from the gnome interface) my PC, and then switching off the mains, I used to restart the PC by just turning on the mains, the (auto) rebooting process has fine, but now after I did not use the PC during a period of time (~ 10 days), this booting does not go