Am Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 03:04:41PM -0500 schrieb Dale:
> 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?
Since you are using LVM for everything IIRC, it would be a very efficient
way for you to
On 30/09/2021 00:17, Rich Freeman wrote:
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,
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 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
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
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
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
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
Regular xzutils now does multiple threads with the -T option.
> -Original Message-
> From: Ramon Fischer
> Sent: Sunday, September 26, 2021 5:23 AM
> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to compress lots of tarballs
>
> In addition
>On Monday, 27 September 2021 14:30:36 BST Peter Humphrey wrote:
>> On Monday, 27 September 2021 02:39:19 BST Adam Carter wrote:
>> > On Sun, Sep 26, 2021 at 8:57 PM Peter Humphrey
>
>> >
>> > wrote:
>> > > Hello list,
>> > >
>> > > I have an external USB-3 drive with various system backups.
On Tuesday, 28 September 2021 12:38:42 BST Rich Freeman wrote:
> You keep mentioning USB3, but I think the main factor here is that the
> external drive is probably a spinning hard drive (I don't think you
> explicitly mentioned this but it seems likely esp with the volume of
> data). That math
On Mon, Sep 27, 2021 at 9:30 AM Peter Humphrey wrote:
>
> Thanks to all who've helped. I can't avoid feeling, though, that the main
> bottleneck has been missed: that I have to read and write on a USB-3 drive.
> It's just taken 23 minutes to copy the current system backup from USB-3 to
> SATA
On Sunday, 26 September 2021 11:57:43 BST Peter Humphrey wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> I have an external USB-3 drive with various system backups. There are 350
> .tar files (not .tar.gz etc.), amounting to 2.5TB. I was sure I wouldn't
> need to compress them, so I didn't, but now I think I'm going to
On Monday, 27 September 2021 14:30:36 BST Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Monday, 27 September 2021 02:39:19 BST Adam Carter wrote:
> > On Sun, Sep 26, 2021 at 8:57 PM Peter Humphrey
> >
> > wrote:
> > > Hello list,
> > >
> > > I have an external USB-3 drive with various system backups. There are
>
On Monday, 27 September 2021 02:39:19 BST Adam Carter wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 26, 2021 at 8:57 PM Peter Humphrey
>
> wrote:
> > Hello list,
> >
> > I have an external USB-3 drive with various system backups. There are 350
> > .tar files (not .tar.gz etc.), amounting to 2.5TB. I was sure I wouldn't
On Sun, Sep 26, 2021 at 8:57 PM Peter Humphrey
wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> I have an external USB-3 drive with various system backups. There are 350
> .tar
> files (not .tar.gz etc.), amounting to 2.5TB. I was sure I wouldn't need
> to
> compress them, so I didn't, but now I think I'm going to have
On 26/09/2021 16:38, Peter Humphrey wrote:
Or, I could connect a second USB-3 drive to a different interface, then read
from one and write to the other, with or without the SATA between.
If you've got a second drive, consider changing your strategy ...
First of all, you want eSATA or USB3 for
On Sunday, 26 September 2021 13:25:24 BST Ramon Fischer wrote:
> Addendum:
>
> To complete the list. Here the parallel implementation of "lzip":
>
> "plzip": https://www.nongnu.org/lzip/plzip.html
>
> -Ramon
>
> On 26/09/2021 14:23, Ramon Fischer wrote:
> > In addition to this, you may
Addendum:
To complete the list. Here the parallel implementation of "lzip":
"plzip": https://www.nongnu.org/lzip/plzip.html
-Ramon
On 26/09/2021 14:23, Ramon Fischer wrote:
In addition to this, you may want to use the parallel implementations
of "gzip", "xz", "bzip2" or the new "zstd"
In addition to this, you may want to use the parallel implementations of
"gzip", "xz", "bzip2" or the new "zstd" (zstandard), which are
"pigz"[1], "pixz"[2], "pbzip2"[3], or "zstmt" (within package
"app-arch/zstd")[4] in order to increase performance:
$ cd
$ for tar_archive in *.tar;
[2021-09-26 11:57] Peter Humphrey
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> Hello list,
Hi,
> I have an external USB-3 drive with various system backups. There are 350 .tar
> files (not .tar.gz etc.), amounting to 2.5TB. I was sure I wouldn't need to
> compress them, so I didn't, but now I
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