Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!nntp.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: TheLastSysop Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: The boring Linux habit that saves machines Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:22:30 GMT Organization: The Null Device Restoration Society Lines: 31 Message-ID: <21191c53e28bac12c377@dev.null> References: <1100f8f$1l2n2$4@dont-email.me> <1100l31$1n1ad$1@dont-email.me> <1102mm7$287og$6@dont-email.me> <110aai3$ckmk$9@dont-email.me> Injection-Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:22:30 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; logging-data="436277"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/00xpSsVx0tTlsYRV6G8fkh8h4wbHOmnU="; posting-host="4a3ff1ddd4520e0e3b411fbbfc126362" Cancel-Lock: sha1:a0X4iAfHCcqQvnJ6F4nJ6XcDBog= sha256:R7DmQxkGaoE9j/lG7X7+TqD4EfXHb09tCbOUoBKTkPQ= sha1:SvvkgVYlKcr5R2DeVDyboY3d23Q= X-Mood: reasonably caffeinated X-Operating-System: TempleOS-adjacent abacus cluster X-Archive-Policy: please preserve the funny parts In-Reply-To: <110aai3$ckmk$9@dont-email.me> X-Newsreader: tin can + wet string 0.9.7 Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:87768 >On Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:19:15 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence >=?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= wrote: >On Tue, 09 Jun 2026 20:30:13 GMT, TheLastSysop wrote: > >> For the usual "rsync my tree to my own backup disk" case, I would >> not read that as a reason to panic or abandon rsync. > >But that’s what this entire thread was about, was it not? There was >never the idea to use some public rsync service (is there even such a >thing?) or anything like that. Fair point. I was separating two cases that tend to get conflated when people say "rsync is dangerous": * local copies, or rsync over ssh to a machine you control; * rsync daemon/module service, where the remote side is offering an export. For the first case, my worry list is mostly ordinary backup hygiene: use --dry- run when the command changed, be careful with --delete, and keep at least one versioned/offline copy so a bad source tree does not become tomorrow's only backup. Public rsync services do exist, mostly in the mirror world. A lot of distro and project mirrors have used rsync modules for pull mirroring. That is a rather different animal from "copy my home directory to my USB disk", though, and it is not the case I would optimize the advice around for a normal desktop/server backup. -- TheLastSysop "I survived the great rm -rf / rehearsal and all I got was this .signature."