> On 08/28/2019 04:22 PM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
> > No suggested readings, but one comment. I do too many thinks from the
> > commandline and having to type drive, directory, and file names. I'd
> > think seriously about (easy to understand) abbreviations. E.g., my
> > systems are named
On 08/29/2019 06:07 AM, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
Hi,
Richard Owlett wrote:
I will be focused on what I refer to as "archiving for posterity".
and somewhere before that:
before wiping the drive
Well, then you should strive for several byte-by-byte identical copies
on cheap media. This would be
Hi,
Richard Owlett wrote:
> I will be focused on what I refer to as "archiving for posterity".
and somewhere before that:
> before wiping the drive
Well, then you should strive for several byte-by-byte identical copies
on cheap media. This would be BD-R in my case. But magnetic disks are
cheaper
On 08/29/2019 02:04 AM, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
Hi,
Richard Owlett wrote:
Why is xorriso more appropriate for *MY* _stated_ immediate goal?
I think there is some confusion about my short AND long term goals.
Yesterday I said:> What I wish to do immediately is archive for
posterity the
Hi,
Richard Owlett wrote:
> Why is xorriso more appropriate for *MY* _stated_ immediate goal?
This is not decided yet.
We have the proposal to use xorriso with incremental backups on some
raw storage devices or on some data files in filesystems on backup disks.
We have the proposal to use rsync
Richard Owlett wrote:
> I suggest reading
> https://manpages.debian.org/buster/rsync/rsync.1.en.html
> and
> https://manpages.debian.org/buster/xorriso/xorriso.1.en.html
>
> Why is xorriso more appropriate for *MY* _stated_ immediate goal?
> [Hint: What keyword appears 5 times as frequently in
On 08/28/2019 11:30 AM, Bob Weber wrote:
Recently I was suggested I read
https://www.gnu.org/software/xorriso/
and
http://scdbackup.sourceforge.net/main_eng.html
which led to exploring "afio archives" and "zisofs compression".
Have you considered rsync.
I suggest reading
On 08/28/2019 04:22 PM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wednesday, August 28, 2019 07:50:27 AM Richard Owlett wrote:
Recently I was suggested I read
https://www.gnu.org/software/xorriso/
and
http://scdbackup.sourceforge.net/main_eng.html
which led to exploring "afio archives" and "zisofs
On Wednesday, August 28, 2019 07:50:27 AM Richard Owlett wrote:
> Recently I was suggested I read
>https://www.gnu.org/software/xorriso/
> and
>http://scdbackup.sourceforge.net/main_eng.html
> which led to exploring "afio archives" and "zisofs compression".
>
> I have a half dozen
Recently I was suggested I read
https://www.gnu.org/software/xorriso/
and
http://scdbackup.sourceforge.net/main_eng.html
which led to exploring "afio archives" and "zisofs compression".
Have you considered rsync. I wound make sure that a backup system would handle
all the file
On 08/28/2019 08:48 AM, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
Hi,
Richard Owlett wrote:
Recently I was suggested I read
https://www.gnu.org/software/xorriso/
and
http://scdbackup.sourceforge.net/main_eng.html
which led to exploring "afio archives" and "zisofs compression".
afio is a sequential
Hi,
Richard Owlett wrote:
> Recently I was suggested I read
> https://www.gnu.org/software/xorriso/
> and
> http://scdbackup.sourceforge.net/main_eng.html
> which led to exploring "afio archives" and "zisofs compression".
afio is a sequential archiver. I used it in scdbackup mainly because
Recently I was suggested I read
https://www.gnu.org/software/xorriso/
and
http://scdbackup.sourceforge.net/main_eng.html
which led to exploring "afio archives" and "zisofs compression".
I have a half dozen machines with primary drives up to ~700GB.
They have up to 20 labeled partitions (I
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