Re: [BackupPC-users] Which filesystem for external backup drive?

2021-02-04 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, Feb 4, 2021 at 11:05 PM wrote: > > Also, I find btrfs snapshots to be very valuable. Especially, if I am > messing/playing around with backuppc... that way I can easily revert > if I mess something up... > > Snapshots have also saved me when I have run across the occasional > backuppc

Re: [BackupPC-users] Which filesystem for external backup drive?

2021-02-04 Thread backuppc
Michael Stowe wrote at about 03:57:34 + on Friday, February 5, 2021: > On 2021-02-04 16:27, Kenneth Porter wrote: > > --On Thursday, February 04, 2021 5:13 PM +0100 Alexander Kobel > > wrote: > > > >> Distro support is a serious thing to consider. In general, backuppc > >> will > >>

Re: [BackupPC-users] Which filesystem for external backup drive?

2021-02-04 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2021-02-04 16:27, Kenneth Porter wrote: --On Thursday, February 04, 2021 5:13 PM +0100 Alexander Kobel wrote: Distro support is a serious thing to consider. In general, backuppc will happily work with whatever is the default file system of your distribution. For CentOS and RedHat, XFS is

Re: [BackupPC-users] OT: To top-post or not?

2021-02-04 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, Feb 4, 2021 at 6:29 PM Kenneth Porter wrote: > > The biggest pain is finding an MUA that can support both and allows the > different quoting style. In interleaved, prefix the quote with "> ". In > top-post, copy the message below a separator line with no prefix. Has > anyone found a

Re: [BackupPC-users] OT: To top-post or not?

2021-02-04 Thread backuppc
Kenneth Porter wrote at about 16:26:19 -0800 on Thursday, February 4, 2021: > --On Thursday, February 04, 2021 11:24 AM +0100 Sorin Srbu > wrote: > > > I'll continue to end-post as before. :-) > > Not end/bottom post! That's really no better than top-posting, because we > still have to

Re: [BackupPC-users] OT: To top-post or not?

2021-02-04 Thread Greg Harris
> On Feb 4, 2021, at 7:28 PM, Kenneth Porter wrote: > > --On Thursday, February 04, 2021 11:24 AM +0100 Sorin Srbu > wrote: > >> I'll continue to end-post as before. :-) > > Not end/bottom post! That's really no better than top-posting, because we > still have to scroll down through the

Re: [BackupPC-users] OT: To top-post or not?

2021-02-04 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Thursday, February 04, 2021 11:24 AM +0100 Sorin Srbu wrote: I'll continue to end-post as before. :-) Not end/bottom post! That's really no better than top-posting, because we still have to scroll down through the massive post you're quoting. Brutally trim the post you're replying

Re: [BackupPC-users] Which filesystem for external backup drive?

2021-02-04 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Thursday, February 04, 2021 5:13 PM +0100 Alexander Kobel wrote: Distro support is a serious thing to consider. In general, backuppc will happily work with whatever is the default file system of your distribution. For CentOS and RedHat, XFS is the obvious choice, and BTRFS will not give

Re: [BackupPC-users] OT: To top-post or not?

2021-02-04 Thread Bowie Bailey via BackupPC-users
On 2/3/2021 9:09 AM, Sorin Srbu wrote: Hello all, Years ago when I last worked daily, and before my timeout, with BPC, the deal was to not top post. There were usually corrective comments if somebody forgot him/herself and in no uncertain terms. Has that changed over the years, and one can now

Re: [BackupPC-users] Which filesystem for external backup drive?

2021-02-04 Thread Alexander Kobel
Hi, On 2/4/21 5:02 AM, Kenneth Porter wrote: On 2/3/2021 6:54 PM, backu...@kosowsky.org wrote: I just built backuppc for my Raspberry PI and ordered an external SSD drive that I plan to format in btrfs. I'm using CentOS, and it looks like Red Hat is dropping btrfs in favor of other

[BackupPC-users] Bug/annoyance with continued incrementing of interrupted backups

2021-02-04 Thread backuppc
When backups number N is initiated, it is initially labeled as 'active'. If interrupted, it is labeled as 'partial'. Then when a backup is tried again, it is numbered 'N+1' and again labeled as 'active'. This proceeds ad-infinitum until a successful backup is completed. The result can be large

Re: [BackupPC-users] OT: To top-post or not?

2021-02-04 Thread Sorin Srbu
On Wed, 2021-02-03 at 14:51 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Wed, Feb 3, 2021 at 1:41 PM wrote: > > Paul Leyland wrote at about 18:59:24 + on Wednesday, February 3, 2021: > > > I have, very reluctantly, been forced to accept top-posting. > > > > Sadly, that has become too true. My solution