On 11/15/18, Reco <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 10:43:30AM -0500, Lee wrote: >> implying you keep lots of backups. For how long? > > Depends. Backups of your 1-2 GB of root/var can be kept for a year, > given weekly backups and a typical multi TB NAS. > Private user's data can be measured in terabytes, so keeping more than a > couple of backups is problematic.
There we go :) You've been talking enterprise grade backup standards - right? Which is fine & maybe someday I'll get there. But right now simple, easy & blatantly obvious something worked or no is more important to me. >> If I ever put debian on something I don't turn off then cron is an >> option. But right now I've got debian on a laptop that I don't leave >> running 24x7 > > anacron is the answer for that. It even takes into the account whenever > the laptop is on battery or on AC. another good reference. Thanks for all your help! Lee
