drl
Cadet
- Joined
- Jun 3, 2017
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- 5
Hi.
In Minnesota, near Wisconsin (Wi), not West Indies (WI). Retired, getting a centralized backup service running for a disparate collection of machines. I use them to try to answer questions on other forums, although most of them are VMs: a number of Linux distributions, {Free, Net, Open}BSD, Solaris, Windows 10 (with cygwin), etc.
I find that a good part of backup can be handled quickly with VM snapshots, say for protecting against problems with updates. However, longer-term, off-machine-or-site backup is the best insurance. For development work I keep local RCS collections to counteract errors in typing and design. Every now and then I tar up my home directory and save it. Every few hours, I currently have an rsnapshot run to capture changes on my workstation to a backup server, but it does not understand Apple stuff, nor Windows stuff.
Best wishes ... cheers, drl
In Minnesota, near Wisconsin (Wi), not West Indies (WI). Retired, getting a centralized backup service running for a disparate collection of machines. I use them to try to answer questions on other forums, although most of them are VMs: a number of Linux distributions, {Free, Net, Open}BSD, Solaris, Windows 10 (with cygwin), etc.
I find that a good part of backup can be handled quickly with VM snapshots, say for protecting against problems with updates. However, longer-term, off-machine-or-site backup is the best insurance. For development work I keep local RCS collections to counteract errors in typing and design. Every now and then I tar up my home directory and save it. Every few hours, I currently have an rsnapshot run to capture changes on my workstation to a backup server, but it does not understand Apple stuff, nor Windows stuff.
Best wishes ... cheers, drl