[DNG] What not to back up

2021-11-23 Thread Hendrik Boom
I'm setting up a new backup script that will do it all piecemeal so that if a part of it fails, it can be retried without having to start *everythng* over from scratch. Which top-level filesystems should *not* be backed up. To start with, I presumably shouldn't back up /proc /tmp /dev (cause

Re: [DNG] chimaera and xfce look consistency

2021-11-23 Thread Riccardo Mottola via Dng
Hi Ralph! Ralph Ronnquist via Dng wrote: > What you see there is one of the effects of "Client Side Rendering" > which is this new fad that wants to return to the cowboy times of > mid-80's where every GUI program implements its own looks and style. > It's generally called "progress". that was

Re: [DNG] What not to back up

2021-11-23 Thread Lars Noodén via Dng
On 11/23/21 21:27, Hendrik Boom wrote: I'm setting up a new backup script that will do it all piecemeal so that if a part of it fails, it can be retried without having to start *everythng* over from scratch. [snip] It depends on what you've set up. For the systems I have, I only back up the

Re: [DNG] What not to back up

2021-11-23 Thread Steve Litt
Harald Arnesen via Dng said on Tue, 23 Nov 2021 21:56:43 +0100 >Steve Litt [23/11/2021 21.48]: > >> >> The majority of files in /home/yourname are useless. /home/yourname >> is a mishmash of stuff you created, settings you use, and useless >> crap >

Re: [DNG] What not to back up

2021-11-23 Thread Harald Arnesen via Dng
Steve Litt [23/11/2021 21.48]: The majority of files in /home/yourname are useless. /home/yourname is a mishmash of stuff you created, settings you use, and useless crap like cache. It's huge and ugly. For that reason I create other top

Re: [DNG] What not to back up

2021-11-23 Thread Dr. Nikolaus Klepp via Dng
Anno domini 2021 Tue, 23 Nov 14:27:56 -0500 Hendrik Boom scripsit: > I'm setting up a new backup script that will do it all piecemeal so > that if a part of it fails, it can be retried without having to start > *everythng* over from scratch. > > Which top-level filesystems should *not* be

Re: [DNG] What not to back up

2021-11-23 Thread Dr. Nikolaus Klepp via Dng
Anno domini 2021 Tue, 23 Nov 21:39:07 +0200 Lars Noodén via Dng scripsit: > On 11/23/21 21:27, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > I'm setting up a new backup script that will do it all piecemeal so > > that if a part of it fails, it can be retried without having to start > > *everythng* over from scratch. >

Re: [DNG] chimaera and xfce look consistency

2021-11-23 Thread Riccardo Mottola via Dng
Hi Ludovic, Ludovic Bellière wrote: > XFCE is upgrading to GTK3. The inconsistent look of the windows you've > seen > might be due to old style windows being used alongside newer style. Yes, unfortunate upgrade, it was caused by that > > XFCE isn't a big monolithical application, instead a

Re: [DNG] What not to back up

2021-11-23 Thread Steve Litt
Dr. Nikolaus Klepp via Dng said on Tue, 23 Nov 2021 20:43:28 +0100 >Anno domini 2021 Tue, 23 Nov 14:27:56 -0500 > Hendrik Boom scripsit: >> I'm setting up a new backup script that will do it all piecemeal so >> that if a part of it fails, it can be retried without having to >> start *everythng*

[DNG] snetaid debs...

2021-11-23 Thread Edward Bartolo via Dng
Quote: Aitor wrote: "Being about five years on from what was your simple-netaid project, which has substantially evolved since then hoping that the outcome will be for the good of the project, the idea of reviving both your backend and gui in free pascal, but this time drawn upon libnetaid and

Re: [DNG] system administration of non-systemd distros and releases

2021-11-23 Thread Steve Litt
tito via Dng said on Mon, 22 Nov 2021 14:08:26 +0100 >On Mon, 22 Nov 2021 04:41:23 -0500 >Steve Litt wrote: > >> steph.tougard said on Sun, 21 Nov 2021 04:19:36 + >> >> >> >My Devuan is behind an OpenBSD. The OpenBSD has no software >> >installed, it's a pure system as release by the