On 2018-02-24 11:27, Tim Forbes wrote: > My desktop uses anacron to run a script that rsync's files from my server. > For redundancy and to permit media rotation, the files go to a ZFS mirror > array physically housed in two of these... > > https://tinyurl.com/ydakecb7 > > ... Every now and then, I rotate-in recycled pairs of HDDs. > > A snapshot of the array is created prior to each backup, and snapshots that > are too old are erased at that point too. Not a perfect solution, but I no > longer live in fear that all my photos or other precious data might > evaporate. So you've always got a copy off-site in case your house burns down or floats away? > I've also got a VPS that is backed-up to my server with dirvish. > > Tim > > On 2018-02-22 10:33 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > 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 "dump". argh. > > > > i understand that dump is ubiquitous, and that it integrates with > >entries in /etc/fstab but, beyond that, does anyone seriously use dump > >for official backups these days? > > > > i suspect i'll have to cover that utility to some extent, just > >because it could conceivably be on the exam, so even if i consider > >some of the course content utterly archaic, i still have to cover it. > > > > but what are folks out there using for their backups these days? > >tar? rsync? amanda? the possibilities are endless, of course, but i'll > >still cover dump, even as i strongly discourage people from using it. > > > >rday slainte mhath, RGB -- Richard Guy Briggs -- ~\ -- ~\ <hpv.tricolour.ca> <www.TriColour.ca> -- \___ o \@ @ Ride yer bike! Ottawa, ON, CANADA -- Lo_>__M__\\/\%__\\/\% Vote! -- <greenparty.ca>_____GTVS6#790__(*)__(*)________(*)(*)_________________