Re: opinions: backups

2022-08-16 Thread Richard Shaw
On Tue, Aug 16, 2022 at 5:23 PM Bill Cunningham wrote: > On 8/16/2022 5:24 PM, Barry Scott wrote: > > On 16 Aug 2022, at 19:27, Neal Becker wrote: > > I use borg and am very happy with it. As Chris, I only backup /home, > everything else is replaceable. Oh, I occasionally make a backup of /etc

Re: opinions: backups

2022-08-16 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 8/16/2022 5:24 PM, Barry Scott wrote: On 16 Aug 2022, at 19:27, Neal Becker wrote: I use borg and am very happy with it.  As Chris, I only backup /home, everything else is replaceable.  Oh, I occasionally make a backup of /etc also. I back /home and /etc because if I missed a config

Re: opinions: backups

2022-08-16 Thread Barry Scott
> On 16 Aug 2022, at 19:27, Neal Becker wrote: > > I use borg and am very happy with it. As Chris, I only backup /home, > everything else is replaceable. Oh, I occasionally make a backup of /etc > also. I back /home and /etc because if I missed a config change then I need /etc to rebuild.

Re: opinions: backups

2022-08-16 Thread Neal Becker
I use borg and am very happy with it. As Chris, I only backup /home, everything else is replaceable. Oh, I occasionally make a backup of /etc also. On Tue, Aug 16, 2022 at 6:05 AM Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Sun, 2022-08-14 at 21:04 -0500, Richard Shaw wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 14, 2022 at 7:

Re: opinions: backups

2022-08-16 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2022-08-14 at 21:04 -0500, Richard Shaw wrote: > On Sun, Aug 14, 2022 at 7:29 PM Cameron Simpson > wrote: > > > On 14Aug2022 15:22, Emmett Culley > > wrote: > > > I've been using BackupPC for many years.  It can use rsync via > > > ssh for > > > remote backups or rsync directly for local

Re: opinions: backups

2022-08-15 Thread Chris Murphy
On Mon, Aug 15, 2022, at 2:32 PM, Bill Cunningham wrote: > On 8/15/2022 12:17 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: >> >> On Sun, Aug 14, 2022, at 5:08 PM, Bill Cunningham wrote: >>> I just thought I would ask for opinions on backups that people use. >>> I have thought about the old fashioned dump/restore; IDK

Re: opinions: backups

2022-08-15 Thread Chris Murphy
On Sun, Aug 14, 2022, at 5:08 PM, Bill Cunningham wrote: > I just thought I would ask for opinions on backups that people use. > I have thought about the old fashioned dump/restore; IDK if that would > be good for modern use or not. My system isn't really that big. My > allotted size is 30 Gig

Re: opinions: backups

2022-08-14 Thread Michael D. Setzer II via users
On 14 Aug 2022 at 17:08, Bill Cunningham wrote: Date sent: Sun, 14 Aug 2022 17:08:23 -0400 To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org From: Bill Cunningham Subject:opinions: backups Send reply to: Community support for Fedora

Re: opinions: backups

2022-08-14 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 14Aug2022 15:22, Emmett Culley wrote: >I've been using BackupPC for many years. It can use rsync via ssh for >remote backups or rsync directly for local (LAN) backup. It can >automatically dedup as well. We had a client using BackupPC. Maybe for a single PC it works well. They were backi

Re: opinions: backups

2022-08-14 Thread Emmett Culley via users
On 8/14/22 2:08 PM, Bill Cunningham wrote:     I just thought I would ask for opinions on backups that people use. I have thought about the old fashioned dump/restore; IDK if that would be good for modern use or not. My system isn't really that big. My allotted size is 30 Gig, and it's not fu

Re: opinions: backups

2022-08-14 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2022-08-14 at 17:08 -0400, Bill Cunningham wrote: > I just thought I would ask for opinions on backups that people > use. > I have thought about the old fashioned dump/restore; IDK if that > would > be good for modern use or not. My system isn't really that big. My > allotted size i

Re: opinions: backups

2022-08-14 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 14 Aug 2022 17:08:23 -0400 Bill Cunningham wrote: > Does anyone use any of these or other backups? My main backup is rsyncing everything to a big old NAS I put together from an old PC and truenas software. I use the --link-dest option to get a complete copy of everything on every backup (

Re: opinions: backups

2022-08-14 Thread Geoffrey Leach
On Sun, 14 Aug 2022 17:08:23 -0400 Bill Cunningham wrote: >     I just thought I would ask for opinions on backups that people > use. I have thought about the old fashioned dump/restore; IDK if that > would be good for modern use or not. My system isn't really that big. > My allotted size is 30

Re: opinions: backups

2022-08-14 Thread Barry
> On 14 Aug 2022, at 22:08, Bill Cunningham wrote: > > I just thought I would ask for opinions on backups that people use. I > have thought about the old fashioned dump/restore; IDK if that would be good > for modern use or not. My system isn't really that big. My allotted size is > 30

opinions: backups

2022-08-14 Thread Bill Cunningham
    I just thought I would ask for opinions on backups that people use. I have thought about the old fashioned dump/restore; IDK if that would be good for modern use or not. My system isn't really that big. My allotted size is 30 Gig, and it's not full. There's dar and xar and fsarchiver. There