Re: [discussion] Workstation Backup, is there an alternative we can drop in

2017-04-07 Thread Dan Brown
I'm writing from a tablet, so apologies for any typos, brevity, etc., as well as quoting everything below. I don't recall any of the discussions (or if there even were discussions) surrounding including dar in the SME base, though I recall Darrell May being a proponent of that software.

Re: [discussion] Workstation Backup, is there an alternative we can drop in

2017-04-07 Thread Stefano Zamboni
On 07/04/2017 13:09, Hans Riethmann wrote: Referring to my other post, mentioning otibackup. This was one of the big reasons why I choose to write something my own. It is not otibackup itself but additonal tools which let you create an smeserver.tar.gz file of just the server configuration.

Re: [discussion] Workstation Backup, is there an alternative we can drop in

2017-04-07 Thread Hans Riethmann
Am 07.04.2017 um 11:20 schrieb Stefano Zamboni: On 07/04/2017 09:45, Terry Fage wrote: Forwarded on behalf of Jesper Knudsen I am personally using https://www.urbackup.org/ which does a great job backing up

Re: [discussion] Workstation Backup, is there an alternative we can drop in

2017-04-07 Thread Hans Riethmann
https://wiki.ortecin.ch/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=oti:backup:otibackup I have not touched it in the last 5 years and it would certainly need some attention to make it a generally available contribution. During that time period I've done daily backups of my SME 9.1

Re: [discussion] Workstation Backup, is there an alternative we can drop in

2017-04-07 Thread Stefano Zamboni
On 07/04/2017 12:35, Keith Slater wrote: Hi, I use affa a lot. You can do localhost backups to usb or a nas. The config is here : https://wiki.contribs.org/Affa#Use_Affa_to_backup_to_a_NFS-mounted_NAS_or_a_local_attached_USB_drive There are a few steps to go through but these could be scripted

Re: [discussion] Workstation Backup, is there an alternative we can drop in

2017-04-07 Thread Stefano Zamboni
On 07/04/2017 12:35, Keith Slater wrote: Hi, I use affa a lot. You can do localhost backups to usb or a nas. The config is here : https://wiki.contribs.org/Affa#Use_Affa_to_backup_to_a_NFS-mounted_NAS_or_a_local_attached_USB_drive There are a few steps to go through but these could be scripted

Re: [discussion] Workstation Backup, is there an alternative we can drop in

2017-04-07 Thread Keith Slater
Hi, I use affa a lot. You can do localhost backups to usb or a nas. The config is here : https://wiki.contribs.org/Affa#Use_Affa_to_backup_to_a_NFS-mounted_NAS_or_a_local_attached_USB_drive There are a few steps to go through but these could be scripted if affa was integrated into the core of SME

Re: [discussion] Workstation Backup, is there an alternative we can drop in

2017-04-07 Thread Stefano Zamboni
On 07/04/2017 11:20, Stefano Zamboni wrote: NS uses duplicity (see http://duplicity.nongnu.org/) which seems to have good features (http://duplicity.nongnu.org/features.html) We'd try to take a look at NS' scripts and make some tests. Related to duplicity: