Re: [OT] Best (o better than yahoo) mail provider for malinglists

2018-08-29 Thread Francesco Porro
Il 29/08/2018 10:34, to...@tuxteam.de ha scritto: > My recommendation over here in Germany (which should be as accessible > to you as an Italian, but perhaps there are equivalent Italian offers, > which I'd tend to support, were I you) > > - posteo.de > - mailbox.org > > Each of them cost

Re: [OT] Best (o better than yahoo) mail provider for malinglists

2018-08-29 Thread Francesco Porro
Thank you for all your precious advices and considerations, expecially for privacy-releaded concerns. Indeed, I'm very well aware of this aspects, but perhaps you're missing my point: the mailbox will be used *only* for mailing lists, which content is (usually) of public domain, on the web. So

Re: [OT] Best (o better than yahoo) mail provider for malinglists

2018-08-28 Thread Francesco Porro
Il 28/08/2018 18:25, Mark Rousell ha scritto: > Instead I'd say that running your own mail server would be best for this Sorry, I forgot to mention that I dont't want to run a mail server by myself. Il 28/08/2018 18:39, John Hasler ha scritto: > I can personally recommend a paid email service:

[OT] Best (o better than yahoo) mail provider for malinglists

2018-08-28 Thread Francesco Porro
Ciao, As a member of this mailing list, I have a little (OT) question for you: which is the best free email service around to receive mailing lists? I mean, somethihng that has a good Imap server, good enough to be accessed by a MUA like Thunderbird without issues, and good spam filter which

Re: User-oriented backup tools

2017-02-16 Thread Francesco Porro
On 16/02/2017 21:26, Glenn English wrote: > No. I've never used it, but a friend of mine does. And it takes forever > for him to do a backup. So I assumed it was dd. Maybe it's that other > OS X disk clone 'backup.' > > But when he's done, he doesn't have an incremental backup, just a clone. >

Re: User-oriented backup tools

2017-02-16 Thread Francesco Porro
On 16/02/2017 18:27, Glenn English wrote: > > > On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 3:42 AM, Francesco Porro <fra...@gmail.com > <mailto:fra...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > > When I was on Mac OS X, several years ago, I used to use CCC (carbon > copy cloner) whic

Re: User-oriented backup tools

2017-02-16 Thread Francesco Porro
On 16/02/2017 17:33, Erwan David wrote: >> I've already tried the latter before, when I was on Ubuntu (it comes >> preinstalled in ubuntu). The thing I didn't like too much of deja-dup >> was the inability to set a threshold for the backups to keep. I mean: i >> wasn't able to say: hey, keep N

Re: User-oriented backup tools

2017-02-16 Thread Francesco Porro
On 16/02/2017 17:36, Boyan Penkov wrote: > > > On 02/16/2017 11:27 AM, Francesco Porro wrote: >> On 16/02/2017 15:03, Boyan Penkov wrote: >>> I similarly found this to be a pain, and then decided to wrap a few >>> calls to duplicity-clean, and --keep-all-but-

Re: User-oriented backup tools

2017-02-16 Thread Francesco Porro
On 16/02/2017 14:50, Hans wrote: > Yes, of course. I did not see, that you meant "daily backups". For daily > backups try "back-in-time", it is nicely configurable and is based on rsync > and > some other tools. And you can configure time based backups and restores. Yes I forgot to say some

Re: User-oriented backup tools

2017-02-16 Thread Francesco Porro
On 16/02/2017 15:03, Boyan Penkov wrote: > I similarly found this to be a pain, and then decided to wrap a few > calls to duplicity-clean, and --keep-all-but-N in a shell script that > gets anacron'd... Well this is the workaround! :) I'll try it later. Thanks! -- fp pgp: 0x45399C26

Re: User-oriented backup tools

2017-02-16 Thread Francesco Porro
On 16/02/2017 14:45, Boyan Penkov wrote: > > On 02/16/2017 08:33 AM, Francesco Porro wrote: >> >> If I'm not wrong, this one is based on "dup" and works the same way? > > I don't think so; which "dup" are you referring to? -- the most I know > is th

Re: User-oriented backup tools

2017-02-16 Thread Francesco Porro
On 16/02/2017 12:18, Daniel Bareiro wrote: > Hi, Francesco Hi Daniel > Another alternative could be to use Dirvish. As stated in Dirvish' website: «Dirvish is a fast, disk based, rotating network backup system. With dirvish you can maintain a set of complete images of your filesystems with

Re: User-oriented backup tools

2017-02-16 Thread Francesco Porro
On 16/02/2017 13:14, Boyan Penkov wrote: > http://duplicity.nongnu.org/ > > I use it on remote backups when I don’t trust the destination > (therefore, all encryption happens locally), and on local-to-local > copies (copy home to, say, another partition). > > About the only caveat is it cannon

Re: User-oriented backup tools

2017-02-16 Thread Francesco Porro
On 16/02/2017 12:23, Hans wrote:> Has anybody already mentioned "clonezilla"? > > Just usefull in case at also physical defects. Hi, I've used Clonezilla a couple of months ago for cloning my sister's Windows partition. But perhaps this tools is more recommended for cloning disks/partitions than

Re: User-oriented backup tools

2017-02-16 Thread Francesco Porro
On 16/02/2017 12:04, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > Now if you are talking about "Real Snapshots" (i.e. files don't change > during backup and stuff) > With rsync you'll always have some skew (i.e. the world is changing > while the backup is running). Well, with the word "snapshot" I meant a "dump"

Re: User-oriented backup tools

2017-02-16 Thread Francesco Porro
Sorry guys, I'm new to mailings list so I made a little mess sending replies first to you mailbox and than to the correct mailinglist address, resulting in two copies... -- fp pgp: 0x45399C26

Re: User-oriented backup tools

2017-02-16 Thread Francesco Porro
On 16/02/2017 09:15, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > rsync. > > To a LUKS-encrypted USB drive (my laptop's drive is LUKS, so it seemed > to be a majot weak point to have all on an unencrpted thumb I could lose > anytime ;-) > [cut] that's very similar to my current backup-style, I use rsync with a

Re: User-oriented backup tools

2017-02-16 Thread Francesco Porro
On 16/02/2017 03:39, Martin McCormick wrote: > I use rsnapshot. Very nice one! This has what I was looking for, indeed there's a link in the main page to the article that I posted before. I'll give it a try, for sure! Thank you Martin! -- fp pgp: 0x45399C26

Re: User-oriented backup tools

2017-02-16 Thread Francesco Porro
On 16/02/2017 06:44, solitone wrote: > I'm happy with backup2l [1]. It's very simple to configure, supports > incremental backups, and it's fully automated. A bit of configuration is required but it seems ok and easy enough! > I also like it because it is simple to extract specific files you

Re: User-oriented backup tools

2017-02-16 Thread Francesco Porro
Hi Greg! On 15/02/2017 23:42, Greg Wooledge wrote: > Why? What do you want to do that your existing solution doesn't do? > Just swapping out a working solution for something more complex without > some compelling reason is not a good idea. Two reason: 1) In my home environment I'd like to

User-oriented backup tools

2017-02-15 Thread Francesco Porro
Hi guys, It's the first time I'm posting here. I'm both a Fedora and Debian user. Which backup tool do you use? At this time I feel comfortable with rsync, which I use to sync my home to an external Usb drive. No automation, no scheduling for now. I just launch rsync from the command line and let