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Re: My darn NAS...

From Martin Gregorie <martin@mydomain.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.sys.raspberry-pi
Subject Re: My darn NAS...
Date 2021-01-14 13:24 +0000
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <rtpgma$f78$2@dont-email.me> (permalink)
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On Thu, 14 Jan 2021 06:36:06 +1300, Richard Falken wrote:

> Re: Re: My darn NAS...
>   By: The Natural Philosopher to Chris Green on Thu Jan 14 2021 11:06 am
> 
>  > depends on what you want. I rsync huge amounts of data. Disk space is
>  > cheap. Recovering from data loss is not, Working out what is
>  > important and what is not is even more expensive.
>  > 
>  > 
> I agree with this position.
> 
> I know that just backing up the data that is not easily reproductible
> suffices,
> in theory. However, if you only back the data up without the
> applications and the OS stack, your recovery consits on a sysadmin
> installing software for a week and swearing at his notebook.

Theres a simple tweak that fixes most of that stuff: move /usr/local to 
/home local and replace it with a symlink to /home/local

I've done the the equivalent with my (large) PostgreSQL databases and my 
local Apache- based website (by default these are in /var, so I changed 
their configurations to put these files in /home too. 

Everything continues to work as before but now I've secured almost all of 
my own work and customisation by backing up /home

The only thing thats not safeguarded now is the contents of /etc, so 
either back that up along with /home or keep copies of everything in /etc 
that you've explicitly changed in, say, your normal home login. I do the 
latter but of course ymmv. Changes in /etc made by software updates don't 
need backing up because they'll be automatically reapplied when you're 
rebuilding the failed device that holds your filing system.
 

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My darn NAS... nospam.paul.lee@f420.n105.z1.binkp.net (paul lee) - 2021-01-10 17:46 +1300
  Re: My darn NAS... The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2021-01-11 04:10 +0000
    Re: My darn NAS... nospam.paul.lee@f420.n105.z1.binkp.net (paul lee) - 2021-01-12 00:28 +1300
      Re: My darn NAS... The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2021-01-12 10:26 +0000
      Re: My darn NAS... Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> - 2021-01-12 10:57 +0000
        Re: My darn NAS... Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2021-01-12 12:16 -0500
          Re: My darn NAS... Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> - 2021-01-12 18:04 +0000
            Re: My darn NAS... Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2021-01-12 18:38 +0000
            Re: My darn NAS... The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2021-01-13 12:20 +0000
              Re: My darn NAS... Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> - 2021-01-13 12:42 +0000
              Re: My darn NAS... Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2021-01-13 12:39 +0000
                Re: My darn NAS... The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2021-01-13 14:23 +0000
                Re: My darn NAS... Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2021-01-13 18:21 +0000
                Re: My darn NAS... The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2021-01-13 19:25 +0000
                Re: My darn NAS... Daniel James <daniel@me.invalid> - 2021-01-14 12:58 +0000
                Re: My darn NAS... TimS <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2021-01-14 13:10 +0000
                Re: My darn NAS... The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2021-01-14 13:35 +0000
              Re: My darn NAS... Scott Alfter <scott@alfter.diespammersdie.us> - 2021-01-13 17:33 +0000
              Re: My darn NAS... nospam.paul.lee@f420.n105.z1.binkp.net (paul lee) - 2021-01-13 16:22 +1300
        Re: My darn NAS... nospam.paul.lee@f420.n105.z1.binkp.net (paul lee) - 2021-01-12 13:20 +1300
          Re: My darn NAS... Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> - 2021-01-13 09:46 +0000
            Re: My darn NAS... The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2021-01-13 12:21 +0000
            Re: My darn NAS... nospam.paul.lee@f420.n105.z1.binkp.net (paul lee) - 2021-01-13 16:20 +1300
              Re: My darn NAS... Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> - 2021-01-14 08:56 +0000
                Re: My darn NAS... The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2021-01-14 11:06 +0000
                Re: My darn NAS... TimS <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2021-01-14 11:43 +0000
                Re: My darn NAS... Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2021-01-14 12:22 +0000
                Re: My darn NAS... The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2021-01-14 12:43 +0000
                Re: My darn NAS... Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> - 2021-01-14 13:29 +0000
                Re: My darn NAS... druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2021-01-14 17:42 +0000
                Re: My darn NAS... The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2021-01-14 12:36 +0000
                Re: My darn NAS... Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> - 2021-01-14 13:22 +0000
                Re: My darn NAS... nospam.Richard.Falken@f1.n770.z6840.fidonet.org (Richard Falken) - 2021-01-14 11:45 +1300
                Re: My darn NAS... Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> - 2021-01-14 18:05 +0000
                Re: My darn NAS... TimS <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2021-01-14 18:29 +0000
                Re: My darn NAS... Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> - 2021-01-14 18:35 +0000
                Re: My darn NAS... TimS <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2021-01-15 11:25 +0000
                Re: My darn NAS... nospam.Richard.Falken@f1.n770.z6810.fidonet.org (Richard Falken) - 2021-01-14 06:36 +1300
                Re: My darn NAS... The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2021-01-14 12:53 +0000
                Re: My darn NAS... Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> - 2021-01-14 13:19 +0000
                Re: My darn NAS... The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2021-01-14 14:29 +0000
                Re: My darn NAS... Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> - 2021-01-14 14:52 +0000
                Re: My darn NAS... druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2021-01-14 17:31 +0000
                Re: My darn NAS... Martin Gregorie <martin@mydomain.invalid> - 2021-01-14 13:24 +0000
                Re: My darn NAS... The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2021-01-14 13:39 +0000
                Re: My darn NAS... Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> - 2021-01-14 14:07 +0000
                Re: My darn NAS... Martin Gregorie <martin@mydomain.invalid> - 2021-01-14 15:22 +0000
                Re: My darn NAS... Scott Alfter <scott@alfter.diespammersdie.us> - 2021-01-14 20:08 +0000
                Re: My darn NAS... The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2021-01-15 08:34 +0000
                Re: My darn NAS... Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> - 2021-01-14 13:17 +0000
                Re: My darn NAS... Pancho <Pancho.Dontmaileme@outlook.com> - 2021-01-16 12:30 +0000
                Re: My darn NAS... nospam.paul.lee@f420.n105.z1.binkp.net (paul lee) - 2021-01-18 17:57 +1300
                Re: My darn NAS... Martin Gregorie <martin@mydomain.invalid> - 2021-01-19 13:37 +0000
                Re: My darn NAS... nospam.paul.lee@f420.n105.z1.binkp.net (paul lee) - 2021-01-21 18:06 +1300
  Re: My darn NAS... Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> - 2021-01-11 10:15 +0000
    Re: My darn NAS... Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> - 2021-01-11 15:16 +0000
      Re: My darn NAS... The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2021-01-11 15:31 +0000
        Re: My darn NAS... Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> - 2021-01-11 18:05 +0000
    Re: My darn NAS... nospam.paul.lee@f420.n105.z1.binkp.net (paul lee) - 2021-01-12 00:31 +1300
      Re: My darn NAS... Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2021-01-12 12:19 -0500
        Re: My darn NAS... The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2021-01-13 12:09 +0000
  Re: My darn NAS... druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2021-01-11 10:25 +0000
    Re: My darn NAS... nospam.paul.lee@f420.n105.z1.binkp.net (paul lee) - 2021-01-12 00:35 +1300
      Re: My darn NAS... Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2021-01-12 12:25 -0500
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