Stuart Henderson writes:
> I would prefer to use almost anything else though and get versioned
> backups. Probably my most used backup/restore action is to get back a
> version of some file from yesterday so something that will only write
> the changes is useful. I quite like borg for this but
On 2021-06-22, Andrew Robertson wrote:
> Is there any problem with putting ROOTBACKUP=1 in my weekly.local
> instead of daily.local? I'm backing up to an SD card and it's maybe not
> fast enough to back up in 24 hours, plus weekly backup would be fine.
It won't do anything in weekly.local; the
Andreas Gerdd wrote:
Hi.
I try to have a root backup with /altroot.
I did everything related to the man pages. But i wonder why my
/altroot partition is still empty.
fstab file:
/dev/wd0a / ffs rw,softdep 1 1
/dev/wd0d /altroot ffs xx 0 0
Both / and /altroot partitions are having
ls /altroot
shows nothing inside, other than ./ and ../
On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 17:51, Nick Holland n...@holland-consulting.net wrote:
Andreas Gerdd wrote:
Hi.
I try to have a root backup with /altroot.
I did everything related to the man pages. But i wonder why my
/altroot partition is
Andreas Gerdd wrote on Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 06:01:07PM +0300:
On Sun, Mar 28, 2010, Nick Holland n...@holland-consulting.net wrote:
Andreas Gerdd wrote:
I try to have a root backup with /altroot.
I did everything related to the man pages. But i wonder why my
/altroot partition is still
What does
$ df /altroot
tell you, in particular, which mount point is it reporting?
Mounted on / or Mounted on /altroot?
df /altroot shows: Mounted on /
(df -h doesn't show /altroot.)
So i cannot browse the content of /altroot, even though the backup
files are there?
Andreas Gerdd wrote:
What does
$ df /altroot
tell you, in particular, which mount point is it reporting?
Mounted on / or Mounted on /altroot?
df /altroot shows: Mounted on /
(df -h doesn't show /altroot.)
So i cannot browse the content of /altroot, even though the backup
files are there?
What does
$ df /altroot
tell you, in particular, which mount point is it reporting?
Mounted on / or Mounted on /altroot?
df /altroot shows: Mounted on /
(df -h doesn't show /altroot.)
Thus, /altroot is currently not mounted.
So i cannot browse the content of /altroot, even though the
On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 6:03 PM, Ingo Schwarze schwa...@usta.de wrote:
df /altroot shows: Mounted on /
(df -h doesn't show /altroot.)
Thus, /altroot is currently not mounted.
As you said before, it shouldn't be usually mounted as it is used by
dd(1). daily.out's output on the first email
On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 12:54 AM, Philip Guentherguent...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 3:44 PM, 46254625...@gmail.com wrote:
Is it correct string for /etc/fstab? /dev/wd2d /altroot ffs xx 0 0
Assuming /dev/wd2d is the correct partition, yes. (You're looking at
the daily(8)
On Sat, 15 Aug 2009, Philip Guenther wrote:
Is it correct string for /etc/fstab? /dev/wd2d /altroot ffs xx 0 0
Assuming /dev/wd2d is the correct partition, yes. (You're looking at
the daily(8) manpage, right?)
Sure. Original mount string for '/altroot' there was '/dev/wd2d
/altroot ffs
On Sun, 16 Aug 2009, Igor Sobrado wrote:
Is it correct string for /etc/fstab? /dev/wd2d /altroot ffs xx 0 0
same device i am using here (a for root, b for swap, c entire
disk, d for /altroot, and so on...)
just two advices: (1) the /altroot filesystem must have the same size
He have.
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On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 09:44:43PM +, 4625 spoke thusly: On Sat, 15 Aug
2009, Philip Guenther wrote: Is it correct string for /etc/fstab?
/dev/wd2d /altroot ffs xx 0 0
Assuming /dev/wd2d is the correct partition, yes. (You're looking at
On Sun, 16 Aug 2009, Denny White wrote:
Sure. Original mount string for '/altroot' there was '/dev/wd2d /altroot
ffs rw,nodev,nosuid 1 2'.
I do not see any messages about backup. How do I check if backup really
happen?
In daily output to root, the section of the message pertaining to
the
On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 3:44 PM, 46254625...@gmail.com wrote:
Is it correct string for /etc/fstab? /dev/wd2d /altroot ffs xx 0 0
Assuming /dev/wd2d is the correct partition, yes. (You're looking at
the daily(8) manpage, right?)
Should df display the /altroot?
Only if you mount it yourself.
Hi!
On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 05:17:35PM +0100, Antoine Jacoutot wrote:
On Wed, 7 Nov 2007, Nick Holland wrote:
Really. /altroot is useful for certain things, but ONLY certain
things. Don't call it a backup, as it isn't rotated. You have
I do backup everything.
It's just that altroot is so easy
Jan Stary wrote:
...
See at bottom; looks much simpler now, hmm :-)
I leave the RAID analogy to someone else.
Anyway, first diff, screwed up,
I'd prefer the term, learning experience.
thanks for all the comments.
Jan
Index: faq4.html
* Nick [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-11-07 04:22]:
(add to that that Thunderbird is a brain-dead piece of shit when it
comes to handling diffs in general and classic diffs even more so.
Apparently, either Thunderbird devs aren't programmers or they never
show their diffs to each other.)
or they
On Sep 25 10:11:04, Joel Knight wrote:
--- Quoting Jan Stary on 2007/09/25 at 15:48 +0200:
Hi all,
afterboot(8) mentions /altroot, which is a nice feature.
But you only learn about /altroot when you read afterboot(8).
By that time, you already have a system installed, in
On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 11:54:45AM +0100, Jan Stary wrote:
On Sep 25 10:11:04, Joel Knight wrote:
--- Quoting Jan Stary on 2007/09/25 at 15:48 +0200:
afterboot(8) mentions /altroot, which is a nice feature.
But you only learn about /altroot when you read afterboot(8).
By that time,
On Tue, 6 Nov 2007, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
While you're at it: the install docs cover the absolute minimum to run
a basic system (I think they describe it as a basic home system
connected to the internet). Could you include an example of the same
thing but the minimum to be able to compile
Hi all,
this is a diff to faq4.html (the install faq) so that it mentions
/altroot for the installing user before he partitions his drive. Now,
the altroot feature is described in daily(8), which you only read when
you already have a system installed, your disk is already partitioned,
and
On 06/11/2007, Jan Stary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is using a larger disk in the example a problem? Using a 20G disk makes
the point of showing how usable the system is even on a small disk, but
20G disks don't really exist anymore.
shouting
O RLY?
/shouting
I always thought my 20 Gig HDD
On 06/11/2007, Jan Stary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
PS: As this is a small diff, I edited (my copy of) faq4.html manually;
but if I was to write up something bigger - is there some script(1)-like
log of the whole installation, or can I create one? Drop into shell at
the very beginning, and run
snip
20G disks don't really exist anymore.
shouting
O RLY?
/shouting
I always thought my 20 Gig HDD was the largest of my eight drives.
Are you saying it's Schroedinger's hard drive?
What about the others?
My 200 MB would like to have a little word with you, and it doesn't
look
On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 08:11:55PM +0100, ropers wrote:
On 06/11/2007, Jan Stary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is using a larger disk in the example a problem? Using a 20G disk makes
the point of showing how usable the system is even on a small disk, but
20G disks don't really exist anymore.
On Tue, 6 Nov 2007 18:26:04 -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
Jest
Perhaps there needs to be a new fork: OldBSD: Unix for the Ages.
s/Ages/Aged/ ??
Given that I joined IBM in 1962, I am allowed to make such jokes.
~|^
=
From the land down under: Australia.
Do we look umop apisdn from up over?
Jan Stary wrote:
Hi all,
this is a diff to faq4.html (the install faq) so that it mentions
/altroot for the installing user before he partitions his drive. Now,
the altroot feature is described in daily(8), which you only read when
you already have a system installed, your disk is already
On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 01:23:55PM +1100, RW wrote:
On Tue, 6 Nov 2007 18:26:04 -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
Jest
Perhaps there needs to be a new fork: OldBSD: Unix for the Ages.
s/Ages/Aged/ ??
Given that I joined IBM in 1962, I am allowed to make such jokes.
~|^
=
Ha! When I
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