<html><head></head><body>No offense taken. <br><br>Back up strategy is always a good topic. Restore strategy is an even better topic!<br><br>Scale really impacts the backup planning. <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On January 19, 2019 10:25:08 AM EST, DJ-Pfulio <DJPfulio@jdpfu.com> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail"><br>Sorry. Didn't mean to say or imply that you weren't handling backups.<br>I know you've handled huge, huge, backups and restores at work well<br>beyond my expertise. Life gets in the way.<br><br>My intention was to help people new to Linux, who get overwhelmed by all<br>the choices around backups, to see how very simple it could be.<br><br><br>On 1/19/19 9:40 AM, Jim Kinney wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;">The how is easy. The where is the issue.<br> <br>The vast pile of junk I use is literally junk at this point. No spinning<br>rust storage younger than 5 (maybe 8?) years old. Tape system is (was)<br>1st gen LTO 3 dell rackmount model. Racked gear designed for SATA1.<br>Current drives match the design speeds.<br><br>Only storage under warranty is nvme drive in my laptop. First gear I've<br>bought new in 10 years.<br><br>Current external drives are USB v2 at best and of similar vintage to<br>everything else.<br><br>On January 19, 2019 9:27:46 AM EST, DJ-Pfulio via Ale <ale@ale.org> wrote:<br><br> TL;DR - do this every day:<br><br> $ sudo rdiff-backup --exclude-special-files --include / \<br> --exclude /Backups /Backups<br> $ sudo rdiff-backup --force --remove-older-than 60D /Backups<br><br><br> Be happy. It really is that simple to have daily, automatic, versioned backups.<br><br><br><br> On 1/19/19 8:39 AM, Boris Borisov via Ale wrote:<br><br> Just make sure that setting is included:<br><br> rantallowed=yes<br><br> Have a good day and good luck.<br><br> On Sat, Jan 19, 2019, 8:28 AM Jim Kinney via Ale <ale@ale.org<br> <mailto:ale@ale.org> wrote:<br><br> Thanks, Robert.<br><br> My backup system failed mechanically a while back. I'll see if I<br> can at<br> least set up something to make critical file recover possible.<br><br> On January 18, 2019 10:00:10 PM EST, Robert Tweedy via Ale<br> <ale@ale.org<br> <mailto:ale@ale.org>> wrote:<br><br> Hi all,<br><br> The ALE mailing list's "config.pck" file corrupted over the<br> weekend and wasn't noticed until this evening. This file<br> contains basically everything about the list (subscribers,<br> settings, etc.), and unfortunately the latest backup copy on<br> hand was from June 24, 2017 which means any changes since then<br> have been lost. I believe I've set the list's settings back to<br> how they were, but it's possible that there are a few other<br> changes that need to be made before the list is fully functional<br> again so please excuse any weirdness over the next few days.<br><br> Unfortunately, I have no way of recovering any of the<br> subscription changes made to the list since this backup was<br> created. If you know of anyone who had joined after that date<br> (and want them to come back), please let them know that they<br> will need to re-subscribe to the list as they're not going to<br> have received this message (unless they happen to browse through<br> the list archives or see the post I'm about to make on the<br> ale.org <<a href="http://ale.org">http://ale.org</a>> page). If you had previously<br> unsubscribed from this list after that date, then I apologize<br> for any inconvenience receiving this email has caused you (and<br> you'll need to unsubscribe again, which you can do so from here:<br> <a href="https://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale).">https://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale).</a><br><br> -Robert<hr> Ale mailing list<br> Ale@ale.org<br> <a href="https://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale">https://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale</a><br> See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at<br> <a href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo">http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo</a><br><br><br>-- <br>Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. All tyopes are thumb related<br>and reflect authenticity.<br></blockquote><br></pre></blockquote></div><br>-- <br>Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. All tyopes are thumb related and reflect authenticity.</body></html>