Re: [gentoo-user] Backup questions

2018-08-17 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Freitag, 17. August 2018, 07:55:57 CEST schrieb Dale: > Marc Joliet wrote: > > Am Freitag, 10. August 2018, 04:46:17 CEST schrieb Dale: [...] > >> I did think about btrfs. I've read a lot of threads on here about > >> people using it and it seems to have come a long ways and be pretty > >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup questions

2018-08-16 Thread Dale
Marc Joliet wrote: > Am Freitag, 10. August 2018, 04:46:17 CEST schrieb Dale: >> Wols Lists wrote: >>> On 08/08/18 04:43, Dale wrote: Howdy, I just bought two external drive enclosures. One is sort of a spare but I do plan to do some backups on it, mostly pictures from my

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup questions

2018-08-16 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Dienstag, 14. August 2018, 12:55:05 CEST schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > Am 09.08.18 um 18:52 schrieb Wols Lists: > > May I suggest using btrfs for your backup drive? > > I like btrbk: > > https://github.com/digint/btrbk > > I run btrfs as main filesystem on 3 systems (2 laptops, 1 main

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup questions

2018-08-16 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Freitag, 10. August 2018, 04:46:17 CEST schrieb Dale: > Wols Lists wrote: > > On 08/08/18 04:43, Dale wrote: > >> Howdy, > >> > >> I just bought two external drive enclosures. One is sort of a spare but > >> I do plan to do some backups on it, mostly pictures from my camera. In > >> one of

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup questions

2018-08-14 Thread Wols Lists
On 14/08/18 12:42, John Covici wrote: > I use sanoid/syncoid to back up using zfs. Its great, keeps snapshots > for as long as I want them (I use 80 days for now). And it keeps > hourlies for the last couple of days as well, so I could roll back in > case of a problem. Very nice if you use zfs.

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup questions

2018-08-14 Thread John Covici
On Tue, 14 Aug 2018 06:55:05 -0400, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > > Am 09.08.18 um 18:52 schrieb Wols Lists: > > > May I suggest using btrfs for your backup drive? > > I like btrbk: > > https://github.com/digint/btrbk > > I run btrfs as main filesystem on 3 systems (2 laptops, 1 main

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup questions

2018-08-14 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 09.08.18 um 18:52 schrieb Wols Lists: > May I suggest using btrfs for your backup drive? I like btrbk: https://github.com/digint/btrbk I run btrfs as main filesystem on 3 systems (2 laptops, 1 main desktop) and so far I am not looking back. -> btrbk snapshots to local subvolumes ("time

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup questions

2018-08-10 Thread Dale
Bill Kenworthy wrote: > On 10/08/18 10:46, Dale wrote: >> Wols Lists wrote: >>> On 08/08/18 04:43, Dale wrote: Howdy, I just bought two external drive enclosures. One is sort of a spare but It has power.  I'm not sure where I'd put a fridge, even a tiny one.  I

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup questions

2018-08-10 Thread Dale
Mick wrote: > On Thursday, 9 August 2018 09:18:43 BST Bill Kenworthy wrote: >> On 08/08/18 11:43, Dale wrote: >>> Howdy, >>> >>> Long story short that leads up to my questions, I paid off some debt. >> Hi Dale, >> >> what you are talking about is not a real backup but a single copy of >> your

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup questions

2018-08-09 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On 10/08/18 10:46, Dale wrote: > Wols Lists wrote: >> On 08/08/18 04:43, Dale wrote: >>> Howdy, >>> >>> I just bought two external drive enclosures. One is sort of a spare but >>> >>> It has power.  I'm not sure where I'd put a fridge, even a tiny one.  I >>> wish it was twice as big as it

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup questions

2018-08-09 Thread Dale
Wols Lists wrote: > On 08/08/18 04:43, Dale wrote: >> Howdy, >> >> I just bought two external drive enclosures. One is sort of a spare but >> I do plan to do some backups on it, mostly pictures from my camera. In >> one of the enclosures I put a single 6TB drive that I found on ebay. It >> has

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup questions

2018-08-09 Thread Dale
Bill Kenworthy wrote: > On 08/08/18 11:43, Dale wrote: >> Howdy, >> >> Long story short that leads up to my questions, I paid off some debt.  >> > Hi Dale, > >     what you are talking about is not a real backup but a single copy of > your data that may or may not be complete (the delete option

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup questions

2018-08-09 Thread Wols Lists
On 08/08/18 04:43, Dale wrote: > Howdy, > > > I just bought two external drive enclosures. One is sort of a spare but > I do plan to do some backups on it, mostly pictures from my camera. In > one of the enclosures I put a single 6TB drive that I found on ebay. It > has about 7,000 hours on

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup questions

2018-08-09 Thread Mick
On Thursday, 9 August 2018 09:18:43 BST Bill Kenworthy wrote: > On 08/08/18 11:43, Dale wrote: > > Howdy, > > > > Long story short that leads up to my questions, I paid off some debt. > > Hi Dale, > > what you are talking about is not a real backup but a single copy of > your data that may

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup questions

2018-08-09 Thread zless
În ziua de joi, 9 august 2018, la 11:37:38 EEST, Neil Bothwick a scris: > I agree with all of this and I would also add Duplicity as a possible > candidate, although not quite as simple to use as BorgBackup (I haven't > tried Dirvish) I usually end up putting a wrapper script around such tasks >

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup questions

2018-08-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 9 Aug 2018 16:18:43 +0800, Bill Kenworthy wrote: > Have a look at Dirvish or borgbackup (both in portage) for what they can > do.  Having a space efficient store at regular points of time is a > lifesaver at times. To restore from dirvish its a copy from the selected > tree.  With borg

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup questions

2018-08-09 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On 08/08/18 11:43, Dale wrote: > Howdy, > > Long story short that leads up to my questions, I paid off some debt.  > Hi Dale,     what you are talking about is not a real backup but a single copy of your data that may or may not be complete (the delete option you mention) at a single point in

[gentoo-user] Backup questions

2018-08-09 Thread Dale
Howdy, Long story short that leads up to my questions, I paid off some debt.  Finally I'm getting around to doing some things I been wanting to do.  One of them, backups.  I bought a hard drive enclosure that has a fan to keep things cool.  Figured I would get a decent one that hopefully will