[gentoo-user] Re: Suggestions for backup scheme?

2024-01-30 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2024-01-30, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 3:08 PM Wol wrote: >> >> On 30/01/2024 19:19, Rich Freeman wrote: >> > I'd echo the other advice. It really depends on your goals. >> >> If you just want a simple backup, I'd use something like rsync onto lvm >> or btrfs or something.

Re: [gentoo-user] Suggestions for backup scheme?

2024-01-30 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 3:08 PM Wol wrote: > > On 30/01/2024 19:19, Rich Freeman wrote: > > I'd echo the other advice. It really depends on your goals. > > If you just want a simple backup, I'd use something like rsync onto lvm > or btrfs or something. I've got a little script that sticks

Re: [gentoo-user] Suggestions for backup scheme?

2024-01-30 Thread Wol
On 30/01/2024 19:19, Rich Freeman wrote: I'd echo the other advice. It really depends on your goals. If you just want a simple backup, I'd use something like rsync onto lvm or btrfs or something. I've got a little script that sticks today's date onto the snapshot name (used to snapshot /

[gentoo-user] Re: Suggestions for backup scheme?

2024-01-30 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2024-01-30, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 1:15 PM Grant Edwards > wrote: >> >> Are there other backup solutions that people would like to suggest I >> look at to replace rsnapshot? I was happy enough with rsnapshot (when >> it was running), but perhaps there's something else

[gentoo-user] Re: Suggestions for backup scheme?

2024-01-30 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2024-01-30, Michael wrote: > On Tuesday, 30 January 2024 18:15:09 GMT Grant Edwards wrote: >> I need to set up some sort of automated backup on a couple Gentoo >> machines (typical desktop software development and home use). One of >> them used rsnapshot in the past but the crontab entries

[gentoo-user] Re: Suggestions for backup scheme?

2024-01-30 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2024-01-30, Thelma wrote: > I backup, periodically: > - corontab (user, root) > - etc > - hylafax > > daily: > - data > > It all depend what you want you backup, how large is your data. > For backup standard "rsync" over the network does the job OK rsnapshot is a perl app that

Re: [gentoo-user] Suggestions for backup scheme?

2024-01-30 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 1:15 PM Grant Edwards wrote: > > Are there other backup solutions that people would like to suggest I > look at to replace rsnapshot? I was happy enough with rsnapshot (when > it was running), but perhaps there's something else I should consider? > I'd echo the other

Re: [gentoo-user] Suggestions for backup scheme?

2024-01-30 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 30 January 2024 18:15:09 GMT Grant Edwards wrote: > I need to set up some sort of automated backup on a couple Gentoo > machines (typical desktop software development and home use). One of > them used rsnapshot in the past but the crontab entries that drove > that have vanished :/

Re: [gentoo-user] Suggestions for backup scheme?

2024-01-30 Thread Thelma
On 1/30/24 11:15, Grant Edwards wrote: I need to set up some sort of automated backup on a couple Gentoo machines (typical desktop software development and home use). One of them used rsnapshot in the past but the crontab entries that drove that have vanished :/ (presumably during a reinstall or

[gentoo-user] Suggestions for backup scheme?

2024-01-30 Thread Grant Edwards
I need to set up some sort of automated backup on a couple Gentoo machines (typical desktop software development and home use). One of them used rsnapshot in the past but the crontab entries that drove that have vanished :/ (presumably during a reinstall or upgrade -- IIRC, it took a fair bit of