On 2021-02-11 05:45, G.W. Haywood via BackupPC-users wrote:
Hi there,
On Thu, 11 Feb 2021, backu...@kosowsky.org wrote:
Michael Stowe wrote at about 20:50:45 + on Wednesday, February 10,
2021:
> On 2021-02-09 16:34, G.W. Haywood via BackupPC-users wrote:
> > Not sure if you
Hi there,
On Thu, 11 Feb 2021, backu...@kosowsky.org wrote:
Michael Stowe wrote at about 20:50:45 + on Wednesday, February 10, 2021:
> On 2021-02-09 16:34, G.W. Haywood via BackupPC-users wrote:
> > Hi there,
> >
> > On Tue, 9 Feb 2021, backu...@kosowsky.org wrote:
> >
> >> G.W. Haywood
Michael Stowe wrote at about 20:50:45 + on Wednesday, February 10, 2021:
> On 2021-02-09 16:34, G.W. Haywood via BackupPC-users wrote:
> > Hi there,
> >
> > On Tue, 9 Feb 2021, backu...@kosowsky.org wrote:
> >
> >> G.W. Haywood via BackupPC-users wrote at about 14:26:30 + on
> >>
On 2021-02-09 16:34, G.W. Haywood via BackupPC-users wrote:
Hi there,
On Tue, 9 Feb 2021, backu...@kosowsky.org wrote:
G.W. Haywood via BackupPC-users wrote at about 14:26:30 + on
Friday, February 5, 2021:
>
> [Red Hat is] dropping BTRFS because they can't support it in the way they'd
>
Hi there,
On Tue, 9 Feb 2021, backu...@kosowsky.org wrote:
G.W. Haywood via BackupPC-users wrote at about 14:26:30 + on Friday,
February 5, 2021:
>
> [Red Hat is] dropping BTRFS because they can't support it in the way they'd
> like to for their commercial customers. That's because it's
G.W. Haywood via BackupPC-users wrote at about 14:26:30 + on Friday,
February 5, 2021:
> > I'm using CentOS, and it looks like Red Hat is dropping btrfs ...
>
> They're dropping BTRFS because they can't support it in the way they'd
> like to for their commercial customers. That's
Hi there,
On Sun, 7 Feb 2021, Les Mikesell wrote:
... I have had several drive hardware failures and one instance of
one port on a powered USB hub going bad with intermittent failures
causing disc corruption.
Glad you mentioned that. There's a seven port hub here which has duct
tape stuck
On Sat, Feb 6, 2021 at 10:38 AM G.W. Haywood via BackupPC-users
wrote:
> Frankly I don't know. Like Mr. Mikesell I've had good experience with
> the tools for EXT4, but my wife has managed to trash at least one EXT4
> partition by simply plugging a USB device into a powered USB hub which
> at
Hi there,
On Fri, 5 Feb 2021, backu...@kosowsky.org wrote:
So what filesystem is safest to run over USB?
Frankly I don't know. Like Mr. Mikesell I've had good experience with
the tools for EXT4, but my wife has managed to trash at least one EXT4
partition by simply plugging a USB device
On Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 2:00 PM Robert Trevellyan <
robert.trevell...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 2:41 PM Les Mikesell wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 1:25 PM Robert Trevellyan
>> wrote:
>>
>> > I'm pretty sure my Ubuntu systems are not using FUSE to access ZFS. If
>> that
On Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 2:41 PM Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 1:25 PM Robert Trevellyan
> wrote:
>
> > I'm pretty sure my Ubuntu systems are not using FUSE to access ZFS. If
> that means I have to trust the lawyers for Canonical as to the legality of
> using ZFS on Ubuntu, so be
Les Mikesell wrote at about 13:40:00 -0600 on Friday, February 5, 2021:
> On Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 1:25 PM Robert Trevellyan
> wrote:
>
> > I'm pretty sure my Ubuntu systems are not using FUSE to access ZFS. If
> > that means I have to trust the lawyers for Canonical as to the legality of
On Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 1:25 PM Robert Trevellyan
wrote:
> I'm pretty sure my Ubuntu systems are not using FUSE to access ZFS. If that
> means I have to trust the lawyers for Canonical as to the legality of using
> ZFS on Ubuntu, so be it.
https://www.theregister.com/2020/01/13/zfs_linux/
On Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 1:34 PM Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 12:02 PM Robert Trevellyan
> wrote:
>
> > Problematic in what way? It's been silky smooth for me with Ubuntu.
>
> Because it is not GPL and the kernel has a restriction against linking
> anything that can't be
On Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 12:02 PM Robert Trevellyan
wrote:
> Problematic in what way? It's been silky smooth for me with Ubuntu.
Because it is not GPL and the kernel has a restriction against linking
anything that can't be distributed under the GPL. So, you either have
the overhead of FUSE or
>>> Problematic in what way? It's been silky smooth for me with Ubuntu
>From what I've read, ZFS on Linux is not GPL compliant.
Doug
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On Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 12:53 PM Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 11:45 AM Robert Trevellyan
> wrote:
>
> >
> > Is there any reason not to choose ZFS? Even without redundancy, you'll
> at least know if it's corrupted.
>
> ZFS on Linux is always problematic because Linus wants it to
On Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 11:45 AM Robert Trevellyan
wrote:
>
> Is there any reason not to choose ZFS? Even without redundancy, you'll at
> least know if it's corrupted.
ZFS on Linux is always problematic because Linus wants it to be.
Ext4 is the path of least resistance and I've always found its
On Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 12:34 PM wrote:
> G.W. Haywood via BackupPC-users wrote at about 14:44:57 + on Friday,
> February 5, 2021:
> > Hi there,
> >
> > On Fri, 5 Feb 2021 Les Mikesell wrote:
> > >
> > > On Thu, Feb 4, 2021 at 11:05 PM wrote:
> > >
> > > > ... Snapshots have also
G.W. Haywood via BackupPC-users wrote at about 14:44:57 + on Friday,
February 5, 2021:
> Hi there,
>
> On Fri, 5 Feb 2021 Les Mikesell wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Feb 4, 2021 at 11:05 PM wrote:
> >
> > > ... Snapshots have also saved me when I have run across the occasional
> > >
On 2021-02-05 06:26, G.W. Haywood via BackupPC-users wrote:
Hi there,
On Thu, 4 Feb 2021, Kenneth Porter wrote:
On Wed, 3 Feb 2021, backuppc@kosowsky wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Feb 2021, Kenneth Porter wrote:
> > > I'm deploying a system with an external (USB) 1.5 TB drive. How should I >
> format
Hi there,
On Fri, 5 Feb 2021 Les Mikesell wrote:
On Thu, Feb 4, 2021 at 11:05 PM wrote:
> ... Snapshots have also saved me when I have run across the occasional
> backuppc gremlin of disappearing files in that I can find the cpool
> file and revert it from past snapshots.
Are you sure that
Hi there,
On Thu, 4 Feb 2021, Kenneth Porter wrote:
On Wed, 3 Feb 2021, backuppc@kosowsky wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Feb 2021, Kenneth Porter wrote:
>
> > I'm deploying a system with an external (USB) 1.5 TB drive. How should I
> > format it? (Ie. which filesystem is best for this?)
>
> I just built
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
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
> >>
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
--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
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
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 filesystems:
Kenneth Porter wrote at about 18:11:05 -0800 on Wednesday, February 3, 2021:
> I'm deploying a system with an external (USB) 1.5 TB drive. How should I
> format it? (Ie. which filesystem is best for this?) I expect to mount it to
> /mnt/BackupPC and then loopback mount a subdirectory to
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