Re: [Discuss] Backup linux desktops/workstations

2012-06-13 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 10:00 PM, Edward Ned Harvey b...@nedharvey.com wrote: On mac windows, I'm accustomed to Time Machine and Acronis.  Key features are: . Run in the background, low priority, no complaints from user about performance. . Daily (or more frequent) incrementals . Able to

Re: [Discuss] Backup linux desktops/workstations

2012-06-13 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss- bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Jack Coats I have used crashplan (crashplan.com) So ... I guess I didn't make it clear enough ... Must be able to backup the whole system. Including the OS, and all the

Re: [Discuss] bash output buffering

2012-06-13 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss- bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Jack Coats In old SunOS days, we could issue the 'sync' command, twice, to ensure all system Oh - That would be the command to flush memory to disk. I'm talking about a level

Re: [Discuss] Backup linux desktops/workstations

2012-06-13 Thread Dan Ritter
On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 11:00:27PM -0400, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: On mac windows, I'm accustomed to Time Machine and Acronis. Key features are: . Run in the background, low priority, no complaints from user about performance. . Daily (or more frequent) incrementals . Able to specify

Re: [Discuss] bash output buffering

2012-06-13 Thread Daniel Hagerty
John Abreau abre...@gmail.com writes: On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 7:06 AM, Edward Ned Harvey b...@nedharvey.com wrote: A command inside of bash generates output every second (ping) redirected to a file. If you run the command on an interactive shell, then you can tail -f the file, and see the

Re: [Discuss] bash output buffering

2012-06-13 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Edward Ned Harvey writes: A command inside of bash generates output every second (ping) redirected to a file. If you run the command on an interactive shell, then you can tail -f the file, and see the output live as it happens. But if you run the command inside an at script, or a cron

Re: [Discuss] Backup linux desktops/workstations

2012-06-13 Thread Tom Metro
Edward Ned Harvey wrote: Unfortunately, even when I nice dump to the fullest extent, it's still too resource intensive. Users complain tremendously, as long as it's running. Maybe try ionice? Must be able to backup the whole system. Including the OS, and all the customizations... Do you

Re: [Discuss] Backup linux desktops/workstations

2012-06-13 Thread Richard Pieri
On 6/12/2012 11:00 PM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: On mac windows, I'm accustomed to Time Machine and Acronis. Key features are: . Run in the background, low priority, no complaints from user about performance. . Daily (or more frequent) incrementals . Able to specify excludes . Able to restore