On Sat, 15 Apr 2023, Rich Shepard wrote:
How do I get /media/bkup1 up and running again?
By rebooting the desktop. Whew!
I now return you to your normal Saturday.
Rich
While moving hardware (a monitor) yesterday I inadvertently shut down power
to the MediaSonic Probox. When I restored power and turned it on 'mount'
showed the four drives were mounted.
This morning there were no backups reported. 'mount' shows:
/dev/sde1 on /media/bkup1 type xfs (rw)
but, df
All I can say for non-btrfs-snapshot-send/receive use cases: Borg
deduplicating archiver:
block/chunk level deduplication, compression (lz4, zstd, ...) ,
encryption, remote backup/restore ...
https://www.borgbackup.org/
https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
On Fri, Dec 31, 2021 at 10:48 AM Keith Lofstrom wrote:
> Note for anyone using VERY LARGE hard drives for dirvish
> in this way: format the drive with a shit-ton of extra
> inodes, or you will use those up long before you run out
> of data sectors. Perhaps there are file system types that
>
On Fri, 31 Dec 2021, Paul Mullen wrote:
The problem might not be with the hard drive. USB enclosures have a mixed
reliabilty record, in my experience. Do you have another enclosure you can
use to test the drive, or a SATA-to-USB cable?
Hi Paul,
I may have such a cable; it's likely that I do.
On Fri, Dec 31, 2021 at 06:43:25AM -0800, Rich Shepard wrote:
> Today's logs reported that dirvish could not find the config files on the
> external USB backup drive. Trying to mount it, root cannot find it:
> # mount /mnt/backup
> mount: can't find UUID=6e95864b-6291-4148-acd3-627542c8318f
>
>
On Fri, 31 Dec 2021, John Jason Jordan wrote:
Some computers and external drive bays have RAID capability built into
their BIOS, commonly referred to as 'hardware RAID.' The alternative,
'software RAID,' is accomplished with mdadm at the command line.
John,
I'll use software.
I currently
On Thu, Dec 30, 2021 at 04:15:50PM -0800, Russell Senior wrote:
> It seems slightly weird to me to be excluding files literally (and I
> mean "literally" literally, not figuratively) intended as backups from
> backups.
Dirvish has exclude lists; it is safer to specify which
drives to backup or
On Fri, 31 Dec 2021 08:22:35 -0800 (PST)
Rich Shepard dijo:
>I've not before used any RAID so please suggest a version and I'll
>search the Web for how to implement it on the Mediasonic's bays 3 and
>4.
Some computers and external drive bays have RAID capability built into
their BIOS, commonly
On Fri, 31 Dec 2021, Bill Barry wrote:
If you have multiple drives with ample storage a raid configuration is
nice. It allows you to quickly recover when a drive fails.
Bill,
Of the 2.1T available 350G have been used for both the OS (on the SSD) and
the user data on the hard drive. This
On Fri, Dec 31, 2021, 9:27 AM Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Fri, 31 Dec 2021, Bill Barry wrote:
>
> > I would think that depends on budget and how critical the backup is. A
> > remote backup is a very good idea to protect against fire etc. SSDs are
> > really fast and reliable. Platters are cheaper.
On Fri, 31 Dec 2021, Bill Barry wrote:
I would think that depends on budget and how critical the backup is. A
remote backup is a very good idea to protect against fire etc. SSDs are
really fast and reliable. Platters are cheaper.
Bill,
I don't need to buy anything new. I have a Mediasonic
On Fri, Dec 31, 2021, 9:05 AM Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Fri, 31 Dec 2021, Bill Barry wrote:
>
> > You should first confirm that it is not the cable or the USB port.
>
> Bill,
>
> Good point, but I don't have another cable. The enclosure end is
> square-ish,
> not a USB type A or C. But, I moved
On Fri, 31 Dec 2021, Bill Barry wrote:
You should first confirm that it is not the cable or the USB port.
Bill,
Good point, but I don't have another cable. The enclosure end is square-ish,
not a USB type A or C. But, I moved the computer end from the hub to the
desktop and it still won't
On Fri, Dec 31, 2021, 8:43 AM Rich Shepard wrote:
> Today's logs reported that dirvish could not find the config files on the
> external USB backup drive. Trying to mount it, root cannot find it:
> # mount /mnt/backup
> mount: can't find UUID=6e95864b-6291-4148-acd3-627542c8318f
>
> Is there any
Today's logs reported that dirvish could not find the config files on the
external USB backup drive. Trying to mount it, root cannot find it:
# mount /mnt/backup
mount: can't find UUID=6e95864b-6291-4148-acd3-627542c8318f
Is there any way to recover from this or do I buy a new drive and set it
On Thu, Dec 30, 2021 at 3:13 PM Rich Shepard wrote:
>
> On Thu, 30 Dec 2021, Russell Senior wrote:
>
> > And more generally, do people have favorite exclusions from backups?
>
> I exclude backup files, *~.
It seems slightly weird to me to be excluding files literally (and I
mean "literally"
On Thu, Dec 30, 2021, 4:09 PM Russell Senior
wrote:
>
> When I do backups, I typically take the attitude that it's easier to
> ignore things you excessively saved than to not have things you didn't
> save but later wished you had.
>
> However, I'm prepared to start excluding some things that I
When I do backups, I typically take the attitude that it's easier to
ignore things you excessively saved than to not have things you didn't
save but later wished you had.
However, I'm prepared to start excluding some things that I didn't
previously. In particular /home/$USER/.cache looks
Every now and again, somebody comes asking about a backup solution.
I personally use Btrfs based storage and backup server with snapshots for
de-duplicated time based/versioned backup. This is of course Btrfs specific
- which a) scares away ext2/3 people b) upsets Zfs people.
Anyway - Today,
On Mon, 9 Sep 2019, David Bridges wrote:
I use bacula on hundreds of linux systems and it works like a charm but it
is more of a backup server solution instead of a single computer backup
solution. It can be used for bare metal restores with some configuration.
Normally bacula is ran on a
On Mon, 9 Sep 2019, tomas.kuchta.li...@gmail.com wrote:
This maybe not useful to you - if you are not using Btrfs
Tomas,
Nope, ext4.
I didn't realize that I should have mentioned the filesystem type when I
wrote.
Thanks,
Rich
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This maybe not useful to you - if you are not using Btrfs
If you use btrfs - I found it great/fast to make and transfer (send/receive)
btrfs snapshots. It is way more "incremental" and faster than rsync, can have a
lot of snapshots without costing disk space/performance and the snapshots all
just
If you’re running ZFS, it’d be pretty easy to setup something for zfs snapshots
(if there isn’t something already packaged). Low overhead, and fast unless
you’re making multi-gig changes every 30m or less.
> On Sep 9, 2019, at 4:48 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:
>
> I think the last piece to be
I think the last piece to be installed and running on my new desktop
server/workstation is backup software. I've used dirvish for at least 9 years
(the date on /usr/sbin/dirvish is Nov 9, 2010) and it's worked just fine
while I've never needed a bare metal restoration. It runs every day at 00:30
On Fri, 10 Nov 2017, Jason Bergstrom wrote:
The two reasons this isn't a standard offering are that policies for
filtering mail differ widely. If a secondary accepts all mail for your
primary, then your primary returns and now refuses mail the secondary has
to bounce it (if they don't accept it
daf...@dafydd.com said:
> Something I've thought about for when I have my domain host back under my
> direct control is acting as a backup MX for friends (and at least one of them
> returning the favor). My idea is to act as a spooler until the Primary MX is
> back. I haven't seen much
On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 10:35:54AM -0800, Rich Shepard wrote:
> David,
>
>I've no idea how this works. When Aracnet/SpiritOne was a working ISP I
> set a higer MX number for their mail server (white.spiritone.com). Now that
> I've escaped their clutches I'd like a new backup.
>
>When you
On Fri, 10 Nov 2017, David Barr wrote:
Something I've thought about for when I have my domain host back under my
direct control is acting as a backup MX for friends (and at least one of
them returning the favor). My idea is to act as a spooler until the
Primary MX is back. I haven't seen much
Following!
Something I've thought about for when I have my domain host back under my
direct control is acting as a backup MX for friends (and at least one of them
returning the favor). My idea is to act as a spooler until the Primary MX is
back. I haven't seen much documentation out there
I would like to add a backup MX server for the rare times my primary MX
server here is off-line for a while. If weather predictions for the area
turn out to be true long power outages might occur and it would be nice to
have someone catch incoming mail until power is restored.
Are there free
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