Re: Request for translation of backup application "Back In Time"

2024-01-15 Thread Adam Sjøgren
" to me. Here are some translations: Backup folder cannot be included. Backup-mappe kan ikke inkluderes. Backup sub-folder cannot be included. Backup-undermappe kan ikke inkluderes. Host/User/Profile-ID must not be empty. Maskine/Bruger/Profil-ID kan ikke være tom. Destination filesystem for

Request for translation of backup application "Back In Time"

2024-01-15 Thread c . buhtz
Hello, I am upstream maintainer of "Back In Time" [1] [2] a GUI backup tool using rsync in the back. I would like to kindly ask if someone want to contribute to the Danish translation of that application. The current state of translation is at 28%. Without improvement I need

Re: Backup système

2023-12-10 Thread Sébastien Dinot
Bonsoir, Alex PADOLY a écrit : > Je recherche donc un outil qui privilégie, la fiabilité de la > sauvegarde, la simplicité, la prise en charge du MBR et donc de GRUB > et bien entendu la restauration. Ayant lu cette phrase, je vais me permettre de ne pas répondre à la question et d'interroger le

Re: Backup système

2023-12-07 Thread benoit
Le mardi 5 décembre 2023 à 18:18, jafiv a écrit : > TimeShift, idem en graphique J'utilise TimeShift, pour mon usage personnel, c'est super facile et j'ai déjà eu besoin de restaurer mon système, ça s'est très bien passé ! Benoit >

Re: Backup système

2023-12-07 Thread Erwann Le Bras
effectuer un backup de mon système pour pouvoir le restaurer à l'identique en cas de problème ou si un paquet pose des problèmes. Il existe beaucoup de logiciels, mais je souhaite me reposer sur vos expériences personnelles et professionnelles. CLONEZILLA ne m'a pas donné de

Re: Backup système

2023-12-06 Thread Belaïd
t : > > Bonsoir à tous, > > > Sous Debian, j'ai installé et configuré un serveur LTSP, j'ai appris > beaucoup de choses. > > Cela n'a pas été facile, c'est pour cette raison que je souhaite effectuer > un backup de mon système > > pour pouvoir le restaurer à l'identiq

Re: Backup système

2023-12-05 Thread jafiv
Le 05/12/2023 à 16:39, Klaus Becker a écrit : Fsarchiver ? Très simple et fiable, en ligne de commande. Bye Klaus TimeShift, idem en graphique Mes 2 cts

Backup système

2023-12-05 Thread Klaus Becker
Fsarchiver ? Très simple et fiable, en ligne de commande. Bye Klaus

Backup système

2023-12-05 Thread Alex PADOLY
Bonsoir à tous, Sous Debian, j'ai installé et configuré un serveur LTSP, j'ai appris beaucoup de choses. Cela n'a pas été facile, c'est pour cette raison que je souhaite effectuer un backup de mon système pour pouvoir le restaurer à l'identique en cas de problème ou si un paquet pose des

Re: rdiff-backup-2.2.2-1 old/new interface - solved, thx

2023-11-23 Thread Greg
On 11/23/23 18:18, Curt wrote: On 2023-11-21, Greg wrote: Hi there, I'm using following command to backup: rdiff-backup backup /home/ 'orfeusz::/mnt/backup/home' and get the following: WARNING: this command line interface is deprecated and will disappear, start using the new one

Re: rdiff-backup-2.2.2-1 old/new interface

2023-11-23 Thread Curt
On 2023-11-21, Greg wrote: > Hi there, > > I'm using following command to backup: > > rdiff-backup backup /home/ 'orfeusz::/mnt/backup/home' > > and get the following: > > WARNING: this command line interface is deprecated and will disappear, > start using the ne

Re: rdiff-backup-2.2.2-1 old/new interface

2023-11-21 Thread Nicolas George
Greg (12023-11-21): > I'm using following command to backup: > > rdiff-backup backup /home/ 'orfeusz::/mnt/backup/home' > > and get the following: > > WARNING: this command line interface is deprecated and will disappear, start > using the new one as desc

rdiff-backup-2.2.2-1 old/new interface

2023-11-21 Thread Greg
Hi there, I'm using following command to backup: rdiff-backup backup /home/ 'orfeusz::/mnt/backup/home' and get the following: WARNING: this command line interface is deprecated and will disappear, start using the new one as described with '--new --help'. Unfortunately I'm unable

Re: Git for backup storage

2023-10-07 Thread gene heskett
even want to have in the history. But you aren't going to use that in a Git backup with gigabytes of data, believe me :-) But you definitely want to run tests on real data before you decide that deleting old data saves your anything, particularly with respect to time. If git is so efficient

Re: Git for backup storage

2023-10-06 Thread tomas
ut you aren't going to use that in a Git backup with gigabytes of data, believe me :-) > But you definitely want to run tests on real data before you decide > that deleting old data saves your anything, particularly with respect > to time. > > If git is so efficient at storing this ki

Re: Git for backup storage

2023-10-06 Thread Mike Castle
Something I played with recently was https://packages.debian.org/stable/vcs/git-filter-repo But you definitely want to run tests on real data before you decide that deleting old data saves your anything, particularly with respect to time. If git is so efficient at storing this kind of data, then

Re: Git for backup storage

2023-10-06 Thread Stefan Monnier
requently and as a low-priority background task. A good reason why you usually don't want to run it frequently, is that due to the sharing ("deduplication"), there's usually not that much garbage to collect. [ IOW, often a thousand backups (of the same machine) don't take up much more space t

Re: Git for backup storage

2023-10-06 Thread Nicolas George
Stefan Monnier (12023-10-06): > `git gc` does delete the old data (if it's not reachable any more). And it is very expensive. My point exactly. > BTW, if you want to (ab)use a Git repository to do backups, you should > definitely look at `bup`. Thanks, it might be exactly what I am looking for.

Re: Git for backup storage

2023-10-06 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Have you tried? The very principle of Git makes it necessary, to remove > or update old data, to rewrite the whole subsequent history. > Furthermore, it is done by creating a new branch, the original data is > not actually deleted. `git gc` does delete the old data (if it's not reachable any

Re: Git for backup storage

2023-10-06 Thread Nicolas George
john doe (12023-10-06): > Please elaborate on why Git is so bad at removing data from a single > repository? Have you tried? The very principle of Git makes it necessary, to remove or update old data, to rewrite the whole subsequent history. Furthermore, it is done by creating a new branch, the

Re: Git for backup storage

2023-10-06 Thread john doe
On 10/6/23 13:26, Nicolas George wrote: john doe (12023-10-06): I do not understand why you would want multiple repos, to me this looks like this would fit the bill for a Git branching workflow. Please elaborate. How do you work around the fact that Git is terrible at removing data with a

Re: Git for backup storage

2023-10-06 Thread Nicolas George
Max Nikulin (12023-10-06): > I have no idea if it is possible to do it in place, but "git clone" and "git > fetch" have the --depth option. So you can specify how many last commits you > would like to have in the cloned repository. Using "git rebase I know. They only allow to keep the last

Re: Git for backup storage

2023-10-06 Thread Nicolas George
john doe (12023-10-06): > I do not understand why you would want multiple repos, to me this looks > like this would fit the bill for a Git branching workflow. Please elaborate. How do you work around the fact that Git is terrible at removing data with a single repository? Regards, -- Nicolas

Re: Git for backup storage

2023-10-06 Thread john doe
On 10/6/23 11:14, Nicolas George wrote: Hi. There is a project I have that requires some scripting, but I am wondering if somebody already did something similar and there is a package that I can just apt-get install. The idea is to use Git to store backups of text files that change rather

Re: Git for backup storage

2023-10-06 Thread Max Nikulin
On 06/10/2023 16:14, Nicolas George wrote: Unfortunately, Git is very bad at removing old data I have no idea if it is possible to do it in place, but "git clone" and "git fetch" have the --depth option. So you can specify how many last commits you would like to have in the cloned

Git for backup storage

2023-10-06 Thread Nicolas George
Hi. There is a project I have that requires some scripting, but I am wondering if somebody already did something similar and there is a package that I can just apt-get install. The idea is to use Git to store backups of text files that change rather rarely or not a lot, because Git is very

Re: [OT] backup inmutable

2023-09-15 Thread Rick Gutierrez
On Thu, Sep 14, 2023 at 10:10 PM Paynalton wrote: > Hace unos anyos hice una pequenya infraestructura. Con ansible entraba > a los equipos desde un servidor para sacar respaldos de forma > periodica y automatizada. Estos archivos eran transferidos a un NAS > con un repositorio GIT para versionar

Re: backup inmutable

2023-09-15 Thread Luis Muñoz Fuente
El 14/9/23 a las 13:15, Luciano Andino escribió: > ¡Buenas! Bueno resulta que los ransomware están a full y parece que no > respetan ningún sistema operativo. Mi consulta es: ¿conocen una solución > libre (o de última no tan costosa) para poder realizar backups que sean > inmutables? Hola: Yo

Re: [OT] backup inmutable

2023-09-14 Thread JavierDebian
El 14/9/23 a las 13:01, Camaleón escribió: El 2023-09-14 a las 08:15 -0300, Luciano Andino escribió: ¡Buenas! Bueno resulta que los ransomware están a full y parece que no respetan ningún sistema operativo. Mi consulta es: ¿conocen una solución libre (o de última no tan costosa) para poder

Re: [OT] backup inmutable

2023-09-14 Thread Paynalton
Hace unos anyos hice una pequenya infraestructura. Con ansible entraba a los equipos desde un servidor para sacar respaldos de forma periodica y automatizada. Estos archivos eran transferidos a un NAS con un repositorio GIT para versionar los cambios. Un worker tomaba esos respaldos y cada semana

Re: [OT] backup inmutable

2023-09-14 Thread itzcoaltam
Los respaldos Off-Site son una alternativa, en el caso del que comentan, en muchas ocasiones la infeccion esta latente, pero no activa por mucho tiempo previo, por lo que la mayoria de los respaldos se encuentran contaminados Saludos El 2023-09-14 10:01, Camaleón escribió: El 2023-09-14 a

[OT] backup inmutable

2023-09-14 Thread Camaleón
El 2023-09-14 a las 08:15 -0300, Luciano Andino escribió: > ¡Buenas! Bueno resulta que los ransomware están a full y parece que no > respetan ningún sistema operativo. Mi consulta es: ¿conocen una solución > libre (o de última no tan costosa) para poder realizar backups que sean > inmutables?

Re: backup inmutable

2023-09-14 Thread Gonzalo Rivero
bien a que te referís con inmutable ¿o sea como hacer una copia para archivar y no cambie nunca? pues volvería a algún medio de solo lectura, tipo cdr o dvdr. No se que tan práctico sea pero si están almacenados correctamente deberían durar mucho, o al menos lo suficiente para que sea un backup

backup inmutable

2023-09-14 Thread Luciano Andino
¡Buenas! Bueno resulta que los ransomware están a full y parece que no respetan ningún sistema operativo. Mi consulta es: ¿conocen una solución libre (o de última no tan costosa) para poder realizar backups que sean inmutables? -- Luciano Andino

Re: Backup systems

2023-09-05 Thread David Christensen
On 9/5/23 07:34, Michael Kjörling wrote: On 4 Sep 2023 13:57 -0700, from dpchr...@holgerdanske.com (David Christensen): * I am using zfs-auto-snapshot(8) for snapsnots. Are you using rsnapshot(1) for snapshots? No. I'm using ZFS snapshots on the source, but not for backup purposes. (I have

Re: Backup systems

2023-09-05 Thread Michael Kjörling
On 4 Sep 2023 13:57 -0700, from dpchr...@holgerdanske.com (David Christensen): > * I am using zfs-auto-snapsnot(8) for snapsnots. Are you using rsnapsnot(1) > for snapshots? No. I'm using ZFS snapshots on the source, but not for backup purposes. (I have contemplated doing that, but it

Re: Backup systems

2023-09-04 Thread David Christensen
lly stored data. "Hot" is perhaps better referred to as the "current" data set; since snapshots (and earlier backups) can include data which has since been deleted, and is thus no longer current but still exists on disk. What partitioning scheme, volume manager, file system,

Re: Backup systems

2023-09-04 Thread Michael Kjörling
On 3 Sep 2023 14:20 -0700, from dpchr...@holgerdanske.com (David Christensen): >> 8.07 TiB physically stored on one backup drive holding 174 backups; >> 11.4 TiB total logical (excluding effects of compression) data on the >> source; 7.83 TiB hot current logical data on the

Re: Backup systems

2023-09-03 Thread David Christensen
On 9/3/23 03:02, Michael Kjörling wrote: 8.07 TiB physically stored on one backup drive holding 174 backups; 11.4 TiB total logical (excluding effects of compression) data on the source; 7.83 TiB hot current logical data on the source (excluding things like ZFS snapshots and compression). Which

Re: Backup systems

2023-09-03 Thread Michael Kjörling
On 2 Sep 2023 14:49 -0700, from dpchr...@holgerdanske.com (David Christensen): > So, 693 GB backup size, 98 backups, 67 TB apparent total backup storage, and > 777 GB actual total backup storage. So, a savings of about 88:1. > > What statistics are other readers seeing for simil

Re: Backup systems

2023-09-02 Thread David Christensen
On 9/2/23 15:26, Michel Verdier wrote: On 2023-09-02, David Christensen wrote: What statistics are other readers seeing for similar use-cases and their backup solutions? I have 83 backups resulting to 130% of data. So a ratio of 63:1. Nice. But because of performance limitation I don't

Re: Backup systems

2023-09-02 Thread David Christensen
On 9/2/23 12:15, Michel Verdier wrote: On 2023-09-02, Stefan Monnier wrote: I switched to Bup a few years ago and saw a significant reduction in the size of my backups that is partly due to the deduplication *between* machines (I backup several Debian machines to the same backup repository

Backup systems (was: I uninstalled OpenMediaVault (because totally overkill for me) and replaced it with borgbackup and rsyncq)

2023-09-02 Thread Stefan Monnier
> More accurately, rsnapshot (which is basically a frontend to rsync) > tells rsync to do that; IIRC by passing --link-dest pointing at the > previous backup target directory. I've used a similar (tho hand-cooked) script running `rsync`. I switched to Bup a few years ago and saw a si

Re (2): Time stamps on sessions on a DVD backup.

2023-08-12 Thread peter
From: "Thomas Schmitt" Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2023 00:08:23 +0200 > You would have to load each session and inquire it: OK, thanks. > Having an id for the backup script makes it possible to ensure that the > script is not applied to the medium of a different backup sc

Re: Time stamps on sessions on a DVD backup.

2023-08-12 Thread Thomas Schmitt
the loaded session is in reach: $ xorriso -indev /dev/sr0 -pvd_info ... Creation Time: 2023081220110500 ... You would have to load each session and inquire it: $ xorriso -load session 1 -indev /dev/sr0 -pvd_info ... Creation Time: 2023072920104300 ... I encode the time in the volume id tog

Time stamps on sessions on a DVD backup.

2023-08-12 Thread peter
Hello again, Here a session of a backup archive is written to a DVD. xorriso -for_backup -dev /dev/sr0 \ -update_r . / \ -commit \ -toc -check_md5 failure -- \ -eject all This command gives the contents of a DVD. xorriso -dev /dev/sr0 -toc TOC layout : Idx , sbsector , Size

Re: Adding backup storage

2023-08-06 Thread Charles Curley
On Sun, 6 Aug 2023 10:49:12 -0400 gene heskett wrote: > On 8/5/23 17:27, Charles Curley wrote: > [...] > [...] > > > > The first thing I wonder is whether you are going to overload your > > power supply by adding all these peripherals. Do the math. > > > There are no power hungry

Re: Adding backup storage

2023-08-06 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sun, Aug 06, 2023 at 10:54:27AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > On 8/5/23 17:47, Andy Smith wrote: > > Do bear in mind that SSDs are not designed for long term unpowered > > data storage, unlike conventional HDDs, so that could be a > > consideration if you're intending to use these SSDs

Re: Adding backup storage

2023-08-06 Thread gene heskett
disaster 15+ years ago when I last tried it. I could, since amanda is quite versatile, set it up as two separate vtape drives.  So I'm open to a pro/con discussion.  Thanks all. Thanks. Cheers, Gene Heskett. I agree with other readers that using two SSD's in RAID1 as Amanda backup media seems

Re: Adding backup storage

2023-08-06 Thread gene heskett
On 8/5/23 17:47, Andy Smith wrote: Hello, On Sat, Aug 05, 2023 at 03:03:54PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: What doc should I follow to bring these 2 drives into one volume managed partition for amanda's use as a vtape device? I'd assume the volume management works by now, but it was a data losing

Re: Adding backup storage

2023-08-06 Thread gene heskett
On 8/5/23 17:27, Charles Curley wrote: On Sat, 5 Aug 2023 15:03:54 -0400 gene heskett wrote: I've an asus mobo with 6 sata ports, 5 are busy. I also have another 6 port with 4 ports tied up serving a raid 10 for /home. That leaves 2 ports empty on that controller. I have a handful of 2T

Re: Adding backup storage

2023-08-06 Thread gene heskett
available, I would consider using an SSD as a spool drive and a big spinning disk on the other port as the 'tape'. But maybe you aren't going to need more than 4 TB of backup storage; I dunno. -dsr- . And I credited Greg for this msg, thank you Dan. As I said, when spinning rust dies SSD's replace them

Re: Adding backup storage

2023-08-06 Thread gene heskett
available, I would consider using an SSD as a spool drive and a big spinning disk on the other port as the 'tape'. But maybe you aren't going to need more than 4 TB of backup storage; I dunno. I'm already set with a 500G SSD as spool, amazing how fast it works, but Greg, I'd had it with spinning rust

Re: Adding backup storage

2023-08-05 Thread Dan Ritter
isaster 15+ years ago > > when I last tried it. > > > I agree with other readers that using two SSD's in RAID1 as Amanda backup > media seems unusual, but ZFS can easily accomplish this: Gene is asking for RAID0, I believe, which is why I advised against it. Amanda is perfectly ca

Re: Adding backup storage

2023-08-05 Thread David Christensen
could, since amanda is quite versatile, set it up as two separate vtape drives.  So I'm open to a pro/con discussion.  Thanks all. Thanks. Cheers, Gene Heskett. I agree with other readers that using two SSD's in RAID1 as Amanda backup media seems unusual, but ZFS can easily accomplish

Re: Adding backup storage

2023-08-05 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sat, Aug 05, 2023 at 03:03:54PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > What doc should I follow to bring these 2 drives into one volume managed > partition for amanda's use as a vtape device? I'd assume the volume > management works by now, but it was a data losing disaster 15+ years ago > when I

Re: Adding backup storage

2023-08-05 Thread Charles Curley
On Sat, 5 Aug 2023 15:03:54 -0400 gene heskett wrote: > I've an asus mobo with 6 sata ports, 5 are busy. > > I also have another 6 port with 4 ports tied up serving a raid 10 for > /home. That leaves 2 ports empty on that controller. > > I have a handful of 2T SSD's. If I can find another 4

Re: Adding backup storage

2023-08-05 Thread Dan Ritter
vantages. If you have the money available, I would consider using an SSD as a spool drive and a big spinning disk on the other port as the 'tape'. But maybe you aren't going to need more than 4 TB of backup storage; I dunno. -dsr-

Adding backup storage

2023-08-05 Thread gene heskett
I've an asus mobo with 6 sata ports, 5 are busy. I also have another 6 port with 4 ports tied up serving a raid 10 for /home. That leaves 2 ports empty on that controller. I have a handful of 2T SSD's. If I can find another 4 pin empty pigtail on the psu, I'll plug 2 of these 2T's into that

Re: backup de windows avant formatage pour debian

2023-06-15 Thread Daniel Caillibaud
ire une > restauration système, créer une sauvegarde donnes perso, restaurer ces > données perso, tout ça sous Windows, tu peux consulter le support > Microsoft, quand on creuse un peu, y a pas que support premier niveau, y > a aussi des articles assez détaillés: > https://support.

Re: backup de windows avant formatage pour debian

2023-06-15 Thread Daniel Caillibaud
Le 15/06/23 à 10:40, Hugues Larrive a écrit : > Bonjour, > > Pour récupérer la clé de windows OEM depuis linux, pas besoin de sauvegarde, > depuis qu'elle > n'est plus sur le sticker de licence elle est inscrite dans une mémoire de la > carte-mère : > strings /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/MSDM

Re: backup de windows avant formatage pour debian

2023-06-15 Thread didier gaumet
Le 15/06/2023 à 12:03, Daniel Caillibaud a écrit : [...] Mais je vais voir, avec un peu de chance c'est une licence qui permet une réinstallation standard si on a la clé d'activation (dans ce cas j'ai que cette clé à conserver, avec une iso d'install windows10 éventuellement au cas où MS

Re: backup de windows avant formatage pour debian

2023-06-15 Thread Hugues Larrive
2023 à 12:03, Daniel Caillibaud a écrit  : > > > Le 15/06/23 à 11:32, "ajh-valmer" ajh.val...@free.fr a écrit : > > > On Thursday 15 June 2023 11:08:01 Daniel Caillibaud wrote: > > > > > Avant d'installer debian sur un PC je voudrais faire un back

Re: backup de windows avant formatage pour debian

2023-06-15 Thread didier gaumet
Le 15/06/2023 à 11:08, Daniel Caillibaud a écrit : Bonjour, Avant d'installer debian sur un PC je voudrais faire un backup du windows qui est dessus, pour le remettre "comme il était avant" si besoin. Je sais pas encore s'il n'a qu'une partition système ou plusieurs (je pense à une

Re: backup de windows avant formatage pour debian

2023-06-15 Thread Daniel Caillibaud
Le 15/06/23 à 11:32, "ajh-valmer" a écrit : > On Thursday 15 June 2023 11:08:01 Daniel Caillibaud wrote: > > Avant d'installer debian sur un PC je voudrais faire un backup > > du windows qui est dessus, pour le remettre "comme il était > > avant" si b

Re: backup de windows avant formatage pour debian

2023-06-15 Thread ajh-valmer
On Thursday 15 June 2023 11:08:01 Daniel Caillibaud wrote: > Avant d'installer debian sur un PC je voudrais faire un backup > du windows qui est dessus, pour le remettre "comme il était > avant" si besoin. Attention, si on réinstalle Windows à partir de son backup, il ne red

backup de windows avant formatage pour debian

2023-06-15 Thread Daniel Caillibaud
Bonjour, Avant d'installer debian sur un PC je voudrais faire un backup du windows qui est dessus, pour le remettre "comme il était avant" si besoin. Je sais pas encore s'il n'a qu'une partition système ou plusieurs (je pense à une partition de restauration), en plus de la par

Re: GPT backup table, was Re: virtualisation

2023-05-27 Thread David Christensen
On 5/27/23 07:42, mick.crane wrote: On 2023-05-27 10:33, Michael wrote: On Friday, 26 May 2023 11:47:04 CEST, Thomas Schmitt wrote: (And as mick.crane already noticed, it is a bit awkward to create an extended partiton 2 only to fill it nearly up with logical partition 5. I wonder what entity

Re: GPT backup table, was Re: virtualisation

2023-05-27 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Back in the (DOS/w95) days, you would usually create one primary and one > extended, and populate the extended with as many partitions as you want. IIRC the reason why there was still that one primary was that you could only boot to a primary partition. BTW, I don't use extended partitions any

Re: GPT backup table, was Re: virtualisation

2023-05-27 Thread zithro
On 26 May 2023 11:47, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, mick.crane wrote: root@pumpkin:~# fdisk -l /dev/sda Disk /dev/sda: 223.57 GiB, 240057409536 bytes, 468862128 sectors ... Disklabel type: dos ... Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type /dev/sda1 * 2048 466862079

Re: GPT backup table, was Re: virtualisation

2023-05-27 Thread Dan Ritter
mick.crane wrote: > > I just installed bookworm on another SSD disk. > The installer said it was going to partition the disk one for the / and > another for swap > After the installation the extended partition was there. > Is this some attribute of pre formatted SSDs Nah, this is just the

Re: GPT backup table, was Re: virtualisation

2023-05-27 Thread mick.crane
On 2023-05-27 10:33, Michael wrote: On Friday, 26 May 2023 11:47:04 CEST, Thomas Schmitt wrote: (And as mick.crane already noticed, it is a bit awkward to create an extended partiton 2 only to fill it nearly up with logical partition 5. I wonder what entity decided to do so.) on my debian

Re: GPT backup table, was Re: virtualisation

2023-05-27 Thread Michael
On Friday, 26 May 2023 11:47:04 CEST, Thomas Schmitt wrote: (And as mick.crane already noticed, it is a bit awkward to create an extended partiton 2 only to fill it nearly up with logical partition 5. I wonder what entity decided to do so.) on my debian 11 test vm with default installation it

Re: GPT backup table, was Re: virtualisation

2023-05-26 Thread DdB
elf to find out, if it was possible to change partitioning to GPT and booting to use EFI. - Yes, i did not need to backup/restore the partition contents, just carefully moving it to make room for EFISYS partition and such, and installing the EFI support was enough and the machine is working hap

Re: GPT backup table, was Re: virtualisation

2023-05-26 Thread David Christensen
endian number. The position of the GPT header is always 512-byte block 1 for the primary partition table and the last valid block address of the device for the backup table. Specs for GPT are part of the UEFI specs. Current is: https://uefi.org/specs/UEFI/2.10/05_GUID_Partition_Table_Format.html (I

GPT backup table, was Re: virtualisation

2023-05-26 Thread Thomas Schmitt
zero your drive prior to installing Debian? Perhaps there > > is a leftover GPT secondary partition table on disk. See below. > on a disk with a gpt partition table, yes. > maybe i am missing something. if so, please enlighten me! A remnant backup GPT is a typical risk of repartitioning

Re: Ok so Now which backup should I use

2023-05-18 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 18 May 2023 15:13:46 +0800 Jeremy Ardley wrote: ... > This may not be an issue for entry level Debian users, but anyone who does > anything serious will want to compile from package source. They will? -- Celejar

Re: Ok so Now which backup should I use

2023-05-18 Thread Jeremy Ardley
On 17/5/23 15:36, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: Not many. An "apt-file search /usr/local" turns up exactly three packages. And I'd venture the guess that those three are doing this by mistake. I did a very brief search and many well known packages default to /usr/local. It's just the packagers at

Re: Ok so Now which backup should I use

2023-05-17 Thread tomas
On Wed, May 17, 2023 at 02:56:32PM +0300, Anssi Saari wrote: > writes: > > > On Wed, May 17, 2023 at 09:53:36AM +0300, Anssi Saari wrote: > > >> It's an odd claim. I typically don't have anything in /usr/local except > >> what I put there myself [...] > > > Not many. An "apt-file search

Re: Ok so Now which backup should I use

2023-05-17 Thread Anssi Saari
writes: > On Wed, May 17, 2023 at 09:53:36AM +0300, Anssi Saari wrote: >> It's an odd claim. I typically don't have anything in /usr/local except >> what I put there myself [...] > Not many. An "apt-file search /usr/local" turns up exactly three packages. > And I'd venture the guess that those

Re: Ok so Now which backup should I use

2023-05-17 Thread tomas
On Wed, May 17, 2023 at 09:53:36AM +0300, Anssi Saari wrote: > Celejar writes: > > > On Tue, 16 May 2023 09:52:07 +0800 > > Jeremy Ardley wrote: > > > >> > >> On 16/5/23 09:11, pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote: > >> > I'd suggest backing up /etc, since that's where your system settings > >> >

Re: Ok so Now which backup should I use

2023-05-17 Thread Jeremy Ardley
On 17/5/23 14:53, Anssi Saari wrote: It's an odd claim. I typically don't have anything in /usr/local except what I put there myself. Some Debian packages do create a directory in /usr/local/share but leave it empty. So what goes in /usr/local is mostly software I've compiled myself and maybe

Re: Ok so Now which backup should I use

2023-05-17 Thread Anssi Saari
Celejar writes: > On Tue, 16 May 2023 09:52:07 +0800 > Jeremy Ardley wrote: > >> >> On 16/5/23 09:11, pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote: >> > I'd suggest backing up /etc, since that's where your system settings >> > are. I also back up /var, since that's typically where your logs and >> > mail

Re: Ok so Now which backup should I use

2023-05-16 Thread DdB
Am 16.05.2023 um 02:17 schrieb Maureen L Thomas: > I have everything I need including a third HDD.  There are so many > backup programs I have to wonder which one will work for my needs.  I > just need to make a backup of my home directory so if I do something > stupid like play with /

Re: Ok so Now which backup should I use

2023-05-16 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 16 May 2023 09:52:07 +0800 Jeremy Ardley wrote: > > On 16/5/23 09:11, pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote: > > I'd suggest backing up /etc, since that's where your system settings > > are. I also back up /var, since that's typically where your logs and > > mail are. > > There is a lot

Re: Ok so Now which backup should I use

2023-05-16 Thread Anssi Saari
Maureen L Thomas writes: > I have everything I need including a third HDD. There are so many backup > programs I have to wonder which one will work for my needs. I > just need to make a backup of my home directory so if I do something stupid > like play with /var and have no ide

Re: Ok so Now which backup should I use

2023-05-16 Thread David Christensen
On 5/15/23 17:17, Maureen L Thomas wrote: I have everything I need including a third HDD.  There are so many backup programs I have to wonder which one will work for my needs.  I just need to make a backup of my home directory so if I do something stupid like play with /var and have no idea

Re: Ok so Now which backup should I use

2023-05-15 Thread Charles Kroeger
When you have things going your way, why not just image the whole disc and sleep well. I have used this for years. It is proprietary yes, and runs on an old version of Linux. https://www.terabyteunlimited.com/image-for-linux/ I have no interest in these people, I don't get a commission for

Re: Ok so Now which backup should I use

2023-05-15 Thread Jeremy Ardley
On 16/5/23 09:11, pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote: I'd suggest backing up /etc, since that's where your system settings are. I also back up /var, since that's typically where your logs and mail are. There is a lot relevant of stuff in /usr/local For instance some programs use /usr/local/etc

Re: Ok so Now which backup should I use

2023-05-15 Thread paulf
On Mon, 15 May 2023 20:17:48 -0400 Maureen L Thomas wrote: > I have everything I need including a third HDD.  There are so many > backup programs I have to wonder which one will work for my needs.  I > just need to make a backup of my home directory so if I do something > stup

Ok so Now which backup should I use

2023-05-15 Thread Maureen L Thomas
I have everything I need including a third HDD.  There are so many backup programs I have to wonder which one will work for my needs.  I just need to make a backup of my home directory so if I do something stupid like play with /var and have no idea how to fix it.  Is there something else I

Re: Bacula y error en algunos backup full "Connection reset by peer"

2023-05-11 Thread Camaleón
ernet. De buenas a > primeras los backup full de un cliente local falla y lanza mensajes de error > del tipo: > > JobId 9387: Error: bsock.c:429 Write error sending 11068 bytes to Storage > daemon:X:9103: ERR=Connection reset by peer > JobId 9387: Fatal error: backup.c:12

Bacula y error en algunos backup full "Connection reset by peer"

2023-05-11 Thread Roberto Leon Lopez
Tengo un sistema Debian 10 que tiene el servicio Bacula cumpliendo su función desde hace años, los clientes pueden ser máquinas físicas o virtuales de tipo Centos o Ubuntu o Debian, uno de los clientes está en internet. De buenas a primeras los backup full de un cliente local falla y lanza

Re: RAID1 + iSCSI as backup (was Re: More RAID weirdness: external RAID over network)

2023-03-18 Thread Dan Ritter
ve been lax in doing > > > > proper > > > > backups. I currently run a RAID1 mirroring across three disks (plus a > > > > hot > > > > spare). On top of that is LUKS, and on top of that is LVM. I keep > > > > meaning > > > > to ma

Re: RAID1 + iSCSI as backup (was Re: More RAID weirdness: external RAID over network)

2023-03-18 Thread David Christensen
(plus a hot spare). On top of that is LUKS, and on top of that is LVM. I keep meaning to manually fail a disk then store it in a safe deposit box or something as a backup, but I have not gotten around to it. It sounds to me like adding an iSCSI volume (e.g. from AWS) to the RAID as an additional

Re: RAID1 + iSCSI as backup (was Re: More RAID weirdness: external RAID over network)

2023-03-17 Thread Gregory Seidman
; > spare). On top of that is LUKS, and on top of that is LVM. I keep meaning > > to manually fail a disk then store it in a safe deposit box or something as > > a backup, but I have not gotten around to it. > > > > It sounds to me like adding an iSCSI volume (e.g. from AWS)

Re: RAID1 + iSCSI as backup (was Re: More RAID weirdness: external RAID over network)

2023-03-17 Thread David Christensen
On 3/17/23 12:36, Gregory Seidman wrote: On Fri, Mar 17, 2023 at 06:00:46PM +0300, Reco wrote: [...] PS There's that old saying, "RAID is not a substitute for a backup". What you're trying to do sounds suspiciously similar to an old "RAID split-mirror" backup te

Re: RAID1 + iSCSI as backup (was Re: More RAID weirdness: external RAID over network)

2023-03-17 Thread Dan Ritter
Gregory Seidman wrote: > On Fri, Mar 17, 2023 at 06:00:46PM +0300, Reco wrote: > [...] > > PS There's that old saying, "RAID is not a substitute for a backup". > > What you're trying to do sounds suspiciously similar to an old "RAID > > spli

RAID1 + iSCSI as backup (was Re: More RAID weirdness: external RAID over network)

2023-03-17 Thread Gregory Seidman
On Fri, Mar 17, 2023 at 06:00:46PM +0300, Reco wrote: [...] > PS There's that old saying, "RAID is not a substitute for a backup". > What you're trying to do sounds suspiciously similar to an old "RAID > split-mirror" backup technique. Just saying. This thread has

Re: Backup ... men hvordan

2022-12-19 Thread Povl Ole Haarlev Olsen
On Mon, 19 Dec 2022, Flemming Bjerke wrote: Mit spørgsmål var i virkeligheden: Hvor længe gemmer I backups, efter hvilket skema? Og hvor tit laver I full backup, og hvor tit incrementel? Det kommer nok helt an på hvad det er for nogle data og hvilke regler, man er underlagt. Er der ikke

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