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

2022-08-16 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 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: unremovable gnome packages

2022-08-16 Thread Adrian Sevcenco
On 8/14/22 00:19, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 8/13/22 11:42, Adrian Sevcenco wrote: On 8/10/22 16:20, Roger Heflin wrote: dnf --noautoremove group remove gnome-desktop If you have a group installed (gnome-desktop) it appears to add the protection to prevent that group from being removed, so the enti

Re: unremovable gnome packages

2022-08-16 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 8/16/22 14:48, Adrian Sevcenco wrote: On 8/14/22 00:19, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 8/13/22 11:42, Adrian Sevcenco wrote: On 8/10/22 16:20, Roger Heflin wrote: dnf --noautoremove group remove gnome-desktop If you have a group installed (gnome-desktop) it appears to add the protection to prevent

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 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: unremovable gnome packages

2022-08-16 Thread mxanthropocene
Hi, you need to swap the release identity package. That determines what desktop packages are protected by dnf. Type dnf search fedora-release-identity- to see what's available. Then run sudo dnf swap fedora-release-identity-workstation fedora-release- identity-(kde, cinnamon, mate-compiz, xfce, o

Re: puzzling message/suggestion during weekly patches. [SOLVED]

2022-08-16 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Aug 15, 2022, at 12:56, home user wrote: > > definition of "cruft", " crud", "junk", etc.. > years-old whatever no longer being used, > collecting dust, > taking up space, > getting in the way, > until finally being trashed. > Then, 6 days later, you need it and wish you still had it! It’