Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Suggestions for backup scheme?

2024-02-07 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tuesday, February 6, 2024 6:22:34 PM CET Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2024-02-06, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > On Tuesday, February 6, 2024 4:38:11 PM CET Grant Edwards wrote: > >> I presume that boot/root on ext4 and home on ZFS would not require an > >> initrd? > > > > Yes, that wouldn't require

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Suggestions for backup scheme?

2024-02-07 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tuesday, February 6, 2024 6:29:09 PM CET Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2024-02-06, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > If you want to use snapshots, the filesystem will need to support it. > > (either LVM or ZFS). If you only want to create snapshots on the > > backupserver, I actually don't see much benefit

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Suggestions for backup scheme?

2024-02-07 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday, February 7, 2024 12:17:03 AM CET Wols Lists wrote: > On 06/02/2024 16:19, J. Roeleveld wrote: > >> Ah! Got it. That's one of the things I've been trying to figure out > >> this entire thread, do I need to switch home and root to ZFS to take > >> advantage of its snapshot support for

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Suggestions for backup scheme?

2024-02-07 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tuesday, February 6, 2024 9:27:35 PM CET Wols Lists wrote: > On 06/02/2024 13:12, J. Roeleveld wrote: > >> Clearly Oracle likes this state of affairs. Either that, or they are > >> encumbered in some way from just GPLing the ZFS code. Since they on > >> paper own the code for both projects it

[gentoo-user] Re: Qustions about installkernel news item

2024-02-07 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 24/01/2024 19:58, Walter Dnes wrote: https://www.gentoo.org/support/news-items/2024-01-18-installkernel-merge.html for those who haven't run across it yet. The news item mentions... Previously sys-kernel/installkernel-gentoo provided kernel installation automation for users of GRUB via

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Suggestions for backup scheme?

2024-02-07 Thread Wols Lists
On 07/02/2024 11:07, J. Roeleveld wrote: Because snapshotting uses so much less space? So much so that, for normal usage, I probably have no need to delete any snapshots, for YEARS? My comment was based on using rsync to copy from the source to the backup filesystem. Well, that's EXACTLY

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Suggestions for backup scheme?

2024-02-07 Thread Wols Lists
On 07/02/2024 11:11, J. Roeleveld wrote: On Tuesday, February 6, 2024 9:27:35 PM CET Wols Lists wrote: On 06/02/2024 13:12, J. Roeleveld wrote: Clearly Oracle likes this state of affairs. Either that, or they are encumbered in some way from just GPLing the ZFS code. Since they on paper own

Re: [gentoo-user] Suggestions for backup scheme?

2024-02-07 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 06:15:09PM - schrieb Grant Edwards: > I need to set up some sort of automated backup on a couple Gentoo > machines (typical desktop software development and home use). One of > them used rsnapshot in the past but the crontab entries that drove > that have vanished :/

Re: [gentoo-user] Suggestions for backup scheme?

2024-02-07 Thread William Kenworthy
On 8/2/24 06:36, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: Am Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 06:15:09PM - schrieb Grant Edwards: I need to set up some sort of automated backup on a couple Gentoo machines (typical desktop software development and home use). One of them used rsnapshot in the past but the crontab

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Suggestions for backup scheme?

2024-02-07 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday, February 7, 2024 10:59:38 PM CET Wols Lists wrote: > On 07/02/2024 11:11, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > On Tuesday, February 6, 2024 9:27:35 PM CET Wols Lists wrote: > >> On 06/02/2024 13:12, J. Roeleveld wrote: > Clearly Oracle likes this state of affairs. Either that, or they are >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Suggestions for backup scheme?

2024-02-07 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday, February 7, 2024 10:50:07 PM CET Wols Lists wrote: > On 07/02/2024 11:07, J. Roeleveld wrote: > >> Because snapshotting uses so much less space? > >> > >> So much so that, for normal usage, I probably have no need to delete any > >> snapshots, for YEARS? > > > > My comment was