On Tuesday, 28 September 2021 18:43:06 BST Laurence Perkins wrote:
> There are also backup tools which will handle the compression step for you.
>
> app-backup/duplicity uses a similar tar file and index system with periodic
> full and then incremental chains. Plus it keeps a condensed list of
Hi Wol,
my credentials for dovecot have the following syntax, i.e. four additional
colons after the password:
':'
I use only virtual users, so I can't tell if mixing works, too.
For the dovecot setup I can recommend this guide:
https://prefetch.eu/blog/2020/email-server/#mda-dovecot
Two
> > On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 4:27 AM Peter Humphrey
> > wrote:
> >> Thanks Laurence. I've looked at borg before, wondering whether I
> >> needed a more sophisticated tool than just tar, but it looked like
> >> too much work for little gain. I didn't know about duplicity, but I'm
> >> used to
On 29/09/2021 21:58, Dale wrote:
Since the drive also uses LVM, someone mentioned using snapshots.
Me?
Still
not real clear on those even tho I've read a bit about them. Some of
the backup technics are confusing to me. I get plain files, even
incremental to a extent but some of the new
On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 5:48 PM Wols Lists wrote:
>
> An LVM snapshot creates a "copy on write" image. I'm just beginning to
> dig into it myself, but I agree it's a bit confusing.
So, snapshots in general are a solution for making backups atomic.
That is, they allow a backup to look as if the
On 29/09/2021 12:06, Nils Freydank wrote:
Hi Wol,
my credentials for dovecot have the following syntax, i.e. four additional
colons after the password:
':'
I use only virtual users, so I can't tell if mixing works, too.
For the dovecot setup I can recommend this guide:
Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 4:27 AM Peter Humphrey wrote:
>> Thanks Laurence. I've looked at borg before, wondering whether I needed a
>> more sophisticated tool than just tar, but it looked like too much work for
>> little gain. I didn't know about duplicity, but I'm used to my
Laurence Perkins wrote:
>>
>> Curious question here. As you may recall, I backup to a external hard
>> drive. Would it make sense to use that software for a external hard drive?
>> Right now, I'm just doing file updates with rsync and the drive is
>> encrypted. Thing is, I'm going to have
On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 4:27 AM Peter Humphrey wrote:
>
> Thanks Laurence. I've looked at borg before, wondering whether I needed a
> more sophisticated tool than just tar, but it looked like too much work for
> little gain. I didn't know about duplicity, but I'm used to my weekly routine
> and
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