[gentoo-user] new machine: incremental back-ups

2012-10-04 Thread Philip Webb
My new machine is working very well -- thanks again for the advice -- , tho' the sighing noise from the CPU fan is a bit trying (smile), I'm considering setting up an incremental back-up system so that if the SSD collapses, I can restore everything from files stored on the HDD without

Re: [gentoo-user] new machine: incremental back-ups

2012-10-04 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 04.10.2012 08:38, schrieb Philip Webb: My new machine is working very well -- thanks again for the advice -- , tho' the sighing noise from the CPU fan is a bit trying (smile), I'm considering setting up an incremental back-up system so that if the SSD collapses, I can restore everything

Re: [gentoo-user] new machine: incremental back-ups

2012-10-04 Thread William Kenworthy
On Thu, 2012-10-04 at 02:38 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: My new machine is working very well -- thanks again for the advice -- , tho' the sighing noise from the CPU fan is a bit trying (smile), I'm considering setting up an incremental back-up system so that if the SSD collapses, I can restore

Re: [gentoo-user] new machine: incremental back-ups

2012-10-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 04 Oct 2012 10:25:53 +0200, Michael Hampicke wrote: I am using http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ (in portage) which brings some nice features like compression, de-duplication and a web interface. Once configured it runs automatically. +1 for BackupPC What do you use for cloud/offsite

Re: [gentoo-user] new machine: incremental back-ups

2012-10-04 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 04.10.2012 12:37, schrieb Neil Bothwick: On Thu, 04 Oct 2012 10:25:53 +0200, Michael Hampicke wrote: I am using http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ (in portage) which brings some nice features like compression, de-duplication and a web interface. Once configured it runs automatically. +1

Re: [gentoo-user] new machine: incremental back-ups

2012-10-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 04 Oct 2012 13:43:13 +0200, Michael Hampicke wrote: Hm, dar looks interesting. I'll have a look at it. The man page states that it is possible to restore individual files from an dar archive without reading the complete file (in contrast to tar). Is this also true when using

Re: [gentoo-user] new machine: incremental back-ups

2012-10-04 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 1:38 AM, Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote: My new machine is working very well -- thanks again for the advice -- , tho' the sighing noise from the CPU fan is a bit trying (smile), I'm considering setting up an incremental back-up system so that if the SSD

Re: [gentoo-user] new machine: incremental back-ups

2012-10-04 Thread Doug Hunley
On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 11:22 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: I'm using rdiff-backup to do incremental backups of my local machine to an external HDD, as well as using it to make backups of a remote server over SSH onto my local machine. Using rdiff-backup as well here on