On Thu, Aug 20, 2020 at 11:33:34AM +1200, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote:
On 20/08/2020 10:08, David Christensen wrote:
On 2020-08-13 01:31, David Christensen wrote:
Without knowing anything about your resources, needs,
expectations, "consistent backup plan", etc., and given the
choices ext2, ext3,
On 20/08/2020 10:08, David Christensen wrote:
On 2020-08-13 01:31, David Christensen wrote:
Without knowing anything about your resources, needs, expectations,
"consistent backup plan", etc., and given the choices ext2, ext3, or
ext4 for an external USB drive presumably to store backup
On 2020-08-13 01:31, David Christensen wrote:
On 8/12/20 5:14 PM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm getting closer to setting up a consistent backup plan, backing up
to an
external USB drive. I'm wondering about a reasonable filesystem to
use, I
think I want to stay in the ext2/3/4 family, and
On Vi, 14 aug 20, 10:31:51, David Wright wrote:
>
> I'm dubious whether I shall ever start using these filesystems.
> I create multiple backups on ext4 filesystems on LUKS, and keep
> MD5 digests of their contents. Would that qualify as your
> "additional tools"?
Assuming you are also
On Fri 14 Aug 2020 at 08:25:20 (+0300), Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> On Mi, 12 aug 20, 20:14:03, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
> > I'm getting closer to setting up a consistent backup plan, backing up to an
> > external USB drive. I'm wondering about a reasonable filesystem to use, I
> > think I want to
On Fri, Aug 14, 2020 at 10:31:08AM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 09:32:13PM +, ghe2001 wrote:
> >Two for sure and put them in a RAID1 -- formatted ext4. And watch that
> >mdstat.
> >
> >And a third or fourth to see if you can get ZFS going.
>
> For playing around
On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 09:32:13PM +, ghe2001 wrote:
Two for sure and put them in a RAID1 -- formatted ext4. And watch that
mdstat.
And a third or fourth to see if you can get ZFS going.
For playing around with tech, sure: for part of a mundane, reliable
backup strategy for the OP, and as
On Mi, 12 aug 20, 20:14:03, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
> I'm getting closer to setting up a consistent backup plan, backing up to an
> external USB drive. I'm wondering about a reasonable filesystem to use, I
> think I want to stay in the ext2/3/4 family, and I'm wondering if there is
> any
>
On 2020-08-13 01:31, David Christensen wrote:
> Migrating to ZFS was non-trivial, and I am still wresting with
> disaster preparedness.
I should have qualified that -- when I used ZFS only as a volume manager
and file system, it was not much harder than md and ext4. You could put
a GPT
On 8/13/20 13:52, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Thursday, August 13, 2020 01:45:59 PM Tom Dial wrote:
>> Debian ZFS root (and boot) is not *that* hard; see the instructions at
>>
>> https://openzfs.github.io/openzfs-docs/Getting%20Started/Debian/Debian%20B
>> uster%20Root%20on%20ZFS.html
>>
On Thursday, August 13, 2020 04:09:46 PM David Christensen wrote:
> On 2020-08-13 12:52, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
> > On Thursday, August 13, 2020 01:45:59 PM Tom Dial wrote:
> >> I would recommend installing from buster-backports to get the current
> >> openzfs release which includes
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On Thursday, August 13, 2020 2:50 PM, Dan Ritter wrote:
> D. R. Evans wrote:
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> > Greg Wooledge wrote on 8/13/20 2:29 PM:
> >
> > > The simplest answer would be to use ext4.
> >
> > I concur, given the OP's use
D. R. Evans wrote:
> Greg Wooledge wrote on 8/13/20 2:29 PM:
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> >
> > The simplest answer would be to use ext4.
> >
>
> I concur, given the OP's use case. And I speak as someone who raves about ZFS
> at every reasonable opportunity :-)
Also concur. But by all means buy a spare drive and
Greg Wooledge wrote on 8/13/20 2:29 PM:
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> The simplest answer would be to use ext4.
>
I concur, given the OP's use case. And I speak as someone who raves about ZFS
at every reasonable opportunity :-)
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On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 01:09:46PM -0700, David Christensen wrote:
> On 2020-08-13 12:52, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
> > * Most of my backup will be done from a Wheezy system -- can I install
> > ZFS
> > on Wheezy?
>
> I do not see any ZFS packages for Wheezy:
>
> The simplest answer would
On 2020-08-13 12:52, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thursday, August 13, 2020 01:45:59 PM Tom Dial wrote:
Debian ZFS root (and boot) is not *that* hard; see the instructions at
https://openzfs.github.io/openzfs-docs/Getting%20Started/Debian/Debian%20B
uster%20Root%20on%20ZFS.html
They
On Thursday, August 13, 2020 01:45:59 PM Tom Dial wrote:
> Debian ZFS root (and boot) is not *that* hard; see the instructions at
>
> https://openzfs.github.io/openzfs-docs/Getting%20Started/Debian/Debian%20B
> uster%20Root%20on%20ZFS.html
>
> They certainly are not harder than installing early
Aug 13, 2020, 00:14 by rhkra...@gmail.com:
> I'm getting closer to setting up a consistent backup plan, backing up to an
> external USB drive. I'm wondering about a reasonable filesystem to use, I
> think I want to stay in the ext2/3/4 family, and I'm wondering if there is
> any
> good
On 8/13/20 02:31, David Christensen wrote:
> On 8/12/20 5:14 PM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
>> I'm getting closer to setting up a consistent backup plan, backing up
>> to an
>> external USB drive. I'm wondering about a reasonable filesystem to
>> use, I
>> think I want to stay in the ext2/3/4
On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 09:15:21PM -0600, Charles Curley wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Aug 2020 20:14:03 -0400
> rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> > I'm getting closer to setting up a consistent backup plan, backing up
> > to an external USB drive. I'm wondering about a reasonable
> > filesystem to use, I
On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 12:55:35PM +1200, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote:
> On 13/08/2020 12:14, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
> >I'm getting closer to setting up a consistent backup plan, backing up to an
> >external USB drive. I'm wondering about a reasonable filesystem to use, I
> >think I want to stay
On 8/12/20 5:14 PM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm getting closer to setting up a consistent backup plan, backing up to an
external USB drive. I'm wondering about a reasonable filesystem to use, I
think I want to stay in the ext2/3/4 family, and I'm wondering if there is any
good reason to use
On Wed, 12 Aug 2020 20:14:03 -0400
rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
> I'm getting closer to setting up a consistent backup plan, backing up
> to an external USB drive. I'm wondering about a reasonable
> filesystem to use, I think I want to stay in the ext2/3/4 family, and
> I'm wondering if there is
On 8/12/2020 7:14 PM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm getting closer to setting up a consistent backup plan, backing up to an
external USB drive. I'm wondering about a reasonable filesystem to use, I
think I want to stay in the ext2/3/4 family, and I'm wondering if there is any
good reason to use
On 13/08/2020 12:14, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm getting closer to setting up a consistent backup plan, backing up to an
external USB drive. I'm wondering about a reasonable filesystem to use, I
think I want to stay in the ext2/3/4 family, and I'm wondering if there is any
good reason to use
On 13/8/20 10:14 am, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm getting closer to setting up a consistent backup plan, backing up to an
external USB drive. I'm wondering about a reasonable filesystem to use, I
think I want to stay in the ext2/3/4 family, and I'm wondering if there is any
good reason to use
I'm getting closer to setting up a consistent backup plan, backing up to an
external USB drive. I'm wondering about a reasonable filesystem to use, I
think I want to stay in the ext2/3/4 family, and I'm wondering if there is any
good reason to use anything beyond ext2?
(Some day I'll try ZFS
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