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] 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?

2024-02-04 Thread Paul Ezvan
Le 30/01/2024 à 19:15, Grant Edwards a écrit : 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 :/ (presumably during a

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

2024-01-30 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 3:08 PM Wol wrote: > > On 30/01/2024 19:19, Rich Freeman wrote: > > I'd echo the other advice. It really depends on your goals. > > If you just want a simple backup, I'd use something like rsync onto lvm > or btrfs or something. I've got a little script that sticks

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

2024-01-30 Thread Wol
On 30/01/2024 19:19, Rich Freeman wrote: I'd echo the other advice. It really depends on your goals. If you just want a simple backup, I'd use something like rsync onto lvm or btrfs or something. I've got a little script that sticks today's date onto the snapshot name (used to snapshot /

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

2024-01-30 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 1:15 PM Grant Edwards wrote: > > Are there other backup solutions that people would like to suggest I > look at to replace rsnapshot? I was happy enough with rsnapshot (when > it was running), but perhaps there's something else I should consider? > I'd echo the other

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

2024-01-30 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 30 January 2024 18:15:09 GMT Grant Edwards wrote: > 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?

2024-01-30 Thread Thelma
On 1/30/24 11:15, Grant Edwards wrote: 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 :/ (presumably during a reinstall or

[gentoo-user] Suggestions for backup scheme?

2024-01-30 Thread 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 :/ (presumably during a reinstall or upgrade -- IIRC, it took a fair bit of