[OCLUG-Tech] does anyone still use "dump" for backups these days?

2018-02-22 Thread Robert P. J. Day
i'm prepping to teach 5 days of compTIA linux+ next week, after which the students will have the option to write exams based on that content for their LPI certification, so i'm working my way through the course manual and just hit the section on backups, which opens with explaining how to use "d

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] does anyone still use "dump" for backups these days?

2018-02-22 Thread Dianne Skoll
On Thu, 22 Feb 2018 10:33:24 -0500 (EST) "Robert P. J. Day" wrote: > but what are folks out there using for their backups these days? > tar? rsync? amanda? I use rsync. Regards, Dianne. ___ Linux mailing list Linux@lists.oclug.on.ca http://oclug.on

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] does anyone still use "dump" for backups these days?

2018-02-22 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 22 Feb 2018, Dianne Skoll wrote: > On Thu, 22 Feb 2018 10:33:24 -0500 (EST) > "Robert P. J. Day" wrote: > > > but what are folks out there using for their backups these days? > > tar? rsync? amanda? > > I use rsync. i'll keep track of the responses i get just to pass them on to the c

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] does anyone still use "dump" for backups these days?

2018-02-22 Thread Richard Guy Briggs
On 2018-02-22 10:46, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Thu, 22 Feb 2018, Dianne Skoll wrote: > > > On Thu, 22 Feb 2018 10:33:24 -0500 (EST) > > "Robert P. J. Day" wrote: > > > > > but what are folks out there using for their backups these days? > > > tar? rsync? amanda? > > > > I use rsync. > > i

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] does anyone still use "dump" for backups these days?

2018-02-22 Thread Paul Hays
I use a gui frontend for rsync called luckyBackup ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LuckyBackup ). It is in the Ubuntu repo. My home setup stores three checkpoint states of user files in a LUKS encrypted container on a separate machine. -- Dump's multi-level backup support seems designed to minimi

[OCLUG-Tech] what the heck is the rationale for 'X' in chmod command?

2018-02-22 Thread Robert P. J. Day
i can't believe i've never noticed the 'X' (upper case) permission setting for the chmod command, explained thusly in the man page: "The letters rwxXst select file mode bits for the affected users: read (r), write (w), execute (or search for directories) (x), execute/search only if the file is